{"id":1746,"date":"2010-03-07T17:38:21","date_gmt":"2010-03-07T22:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1746"},"modified":"2010-03-07T17:38:21","modified_gmt":"2010-03-07T22:38:21","slug":"scrounging-for-signs-of-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1746","title":{"rendered":"Scrounging for signs of spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/a-spring-2010-03-07-1.JPG' title='a-spring-2010-03-07-1.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/a-spring-2010-03-07-1.JPG' alt='a-spring-2010-03-07-1.JPG' \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Can you espy the bluebird?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The landscape is still brown and gray and wintry, but given the warmer temperatures for the past few days, and because the birds are singing, spring is surely just around the corner. This time of year, if it&#8217;s not raining, I take a walk around the yard every day to see how things are coming along.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/a-spring-2010-03-07-2.JPG' title='a-spring-2010-03-07-2.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/a-spring-2010-03-07-2.JPG' alt='a-spring-2010-03-07-2.JPG' \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>A leaf bud on the magnolia<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/a-spring-2010-03-07-3.JPG' title='a-spring-2010-03-07-3.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/a-spring-2010-03-07-3.JPG' alt='a-spring-2010-03-07-3.JPG' \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Young mustard. This volunteered beside the chicken house. A morsel that I threw to the chickens must have escaped somehow and taken root.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/a-spring-2010-03-07-4.JPG' title='a-spring-2010-03-07-4.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/a-spring-2010-03-07-4.JPG' alt='a-spring-2010-03-07-4.JPG' \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Daffodil shoots<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/a-spring-2010-03-07-5.JPG' title='a-spring-2010-03-07-5.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/a-spring-2010-03-07-5.JPG' alt='a-spring-2010-03-07-5.JPG' \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>I don&#8217;t know what this is. The ground is thick with it in the flower bed where the cosmos grew last year. I suppose this could be cosmos, but I also suspect that it may be different type of wildflower, a perennial, that I planted last year but which won&#8217;t bloom until this year.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/a-spring-2010-03-07-6.JPG' title='a-spring-2010-03-07-6.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/a-spring-2010-03-07-6.JPG' alt='a-spring-2010-03-07-6.JPG' \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>A day lily shoot<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/a-spring-2010-03-07-7.JPG' title='a-spring-2010-03-07-7.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/a-spring-2010-03-07-7.JPG' alt='a-spring-2010-03-07-7.JPG' \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Young clover, starting to feel its oats<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you espy the bluebird? The landscape is still brown and gray and wintry, but given the warmer temperatures for the past few days, and because the birds are singing, spring is surely just around the corner. This time of year, if it&#8217;s not raining, I take a walk around the yard every day to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1746\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Scrounging for signs of spring&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-land"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}