{"id":37,"date":"2008-05-05T23:06:43","date_gmt":"2008-05-06T04:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dondailey.wordpress.com\/?p=25"},"modified":"2008-05-05T23:06:43","modified_gmt":"2008-05-06T04:06:43","slug":"all-the-pretty-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/05\/all-the-pretty-flowers\/","title":{"rendered":"All the pretty flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dondailey.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/05\/botanical-blog.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[37]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26\" src=\"http:\/\/dondailey.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/05\/botanical-blog.jpg\" alt=\"botanical garden\" width=\"450\" height=\"299\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We spent Saturday afternoon at the Northwest Arkansas Botanical Garden, which is either in south Springdale or north Fayetteville, it&#8217;s hard to tell which. I was pretty impressed that NWA has such a flowerdy place. I was expecting a few ferns and maybe a pine tree, but the gardens are fairly extensive. It&#8217;s still early in the spring and some gardens are still under construction, so it should be better in a month or so.<\/p>\n<p>Abby got a big kick out of the little ponds scattered all over the place. She spent a long time in the unfinished Japanese garden throwing decorative stones into the little pond. Each time a rock hit the water, she yelled out &#8220;blooop!&#8221; and clapped like crazy. We also saw a lizard eat a cricket. That wasn&#8217;t part of the garden show, we just got lucky. Abby really liked that because she&#8217;s really into lizards right now.<\/p>\n<p>I was practicing using fill flash and I think it made the flowers pop a little too much in the above photo. I need to work on using the flash compensation button to dial it down a little, I think. The photos posted over on flickr look a little better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We spent Saturday afternoon at the Northwest Arkansas Botanical Garden, which is either in south Springdale or north Fayetteville, it&#8217;s hard to tell which. I was pretty impressed that NWA has such a flowerdy place. I was expecting a few ferns and maybe a pine tree, but the gardens are fairly extensive. It&#8217;s still early &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,21,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abby","category-family-fun","category-photography","entry entry-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}