{"id":45556,"date":"2014-06-11T06:00:42","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T10:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nybg.org\/plant-talk\/?p=45556"},"modified":"2014-06-10T15:11:53","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T19:11:53","slug":"morning-eye-candy-a-spin-on-the-carousel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2014\/06\/around-the-garden\/morning-eye-candy-a-spin-on-the-carousel\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Eye Candy: A Spin on the Carousel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I happened to be catching up with Ivo by the Stone Mill when one of our groundskeepers rolled by on his way to the next job site. &#8220;Have you seen the mountain laurel yet?&#8221; he asked. &#8220;I&#8217;ve never actually seen it in bloom until now. Worth the wait, though.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re all on the look-out for good camera fodder here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/MEC-Kalmia-latifolia-Carousel-03.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"45557\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2014\/06\/around-the-garden\/morning-eye-candy-a-spin-on-the-carousel\/attachment\/mec-kalmia-latifolia-carousel-03\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/MEC-Kalmia-latifolia-Carousel-03.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,533\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;thebluroffice&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1402053954&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.003125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Kalmia latifolia &#8216;Carousel&#8217;\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/MEC-Kalmia-latifolia-Carousel-03-300x199.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/MEC-Kalmia-latifolia-Carousel-03.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-45557\" alt=\"Kalmia latifolia 'Carousel'\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/MEC-Kalmia-latifolia-Carousel-03.jpg\" width=\"570\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/MEC-Kalmia-latifolia-Carousel-03.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/MEC-Kalmia-latifolia-Carousel-03-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Mountain laurel (<em>Kalmia latifolia<\/em> &#8216;Carousel&#8217;) by the Stone Mill \u2013 Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stark reds and whites form these petite flowers, blooming for the first time in a while near the Stone Mill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":45557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[952],"tags":[4015,4014,1512,4013,192,825],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/MEC-Kalmia-latifolia-Carousel-03.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph0lU-bQM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45556"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45556"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45560,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45556\/revisions\/45560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}