{"id":20388,"date":"2023-03-12T21:20:54","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T01:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/?p=20388"},"modified":"2023-03-12T21:20:54","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T01:20:54","slug":"flowerreport-march-12-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/20388","title":{"rendered":"#FlowerReport, March 12, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Centuries ago, in internet time, my friend Alyssa started the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23flowerreport&amp;src=typed_query&amp;f=live\">Sunday Flower Report<\/a> on twitter. It was and is a celebration of &#8220;<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">the persistence of beauty and the beauty of persistence&#8221;<\/span>; folks tweet pictures of whatever is blooming in their neck of the woods with the hashtag #FlowerReport and A retweets to all followers. I locked my twitter account last year at about this time in anticipation of Leon Skum&#8217;s purchase of the bird site and with that, my contributions came to an end. Alyssa can see my tweets, but RTing is right out. So I thought this Sunday I&#8217;d do a long overdue post on a day trip I took a month ago &#8211; a blog based #FlowerReport.<\/p>\n<p>Way back when I was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/doncoyote\/sets\/72157604640501240\/\">building naturalistic vivaria<\/a> and keeping poison dart frogs, my go-to for orchids was <a href=\"https:\/\/andysorchids.com\/\">Andy&#8217;s Orchids<\/a> in Encenitas. It and the La Mesa RR layout were my 2 primary reasons for visiting the San Diego area and my gosh, it was worth it. It&#8217;d take thousands of photos to do the place justice &#8211; I only took a few. Here&#8217;s a slideshow, with orchid species names in the caption, where possible.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Andy's Orchids, Feb 2023\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/doncoyote\/albums\/72177720306660956\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52743419171_0f436891e4.jpg\" alt=\"Andy's Orchids, Feb 2023\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Centuries ago, in internet time, my friend Alyssa started the Sunday Flower Report on twitter. It was and is a celebration of &#8220;the persistence of beauty and the beauty of persistence&#8221;; folks tweet pictures of whatever is blooming in their &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/20388\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plants"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdqxx-5iQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20388"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20392,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20388\/revisions\/20392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}