{"id":6473,"date":"2015-03-03T14:51:20","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T21:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2015\/03\/03\/after-the-rain-3\/"},"modified":"2015-03-11T19:57:49","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T02:57:49","slug":"after-the-rain-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2015\/03\/03\/after-the-rain-3\/","title":{"rendered":"After the Rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/curve-billed-thrasher-on-cholla-cactus.jpg' title='Thrasher'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/curve-billed-thrasher-on-cholla-cactus.jpg' alt='Thrasher' width='546' \/><\/a>&nbsp;<a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/beavertail-cactus-flower-bud.jpg' title='Beavertail Bud'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/beavertail-cactus-flower-bud.jpg' alt='Beavertail Bud' width='180' \/><\/a><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/hedgehog-cactus-flower-buds.jpg' title='Hedgehog Buds'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/hedgehog-cactus-flower-buds.jpg' alt='Hedgehog Buds' width='180' \/><\/a><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/many-beavertail-cactus-buds.jpg' title='Lots of Buds'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/many-beavertail-cactus-buds.jpg' alt='Lots of Buds' width='180' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I climbed up on the hill out back to replace the bird seed bell and block that would usually be up there; since the rain mostly abated today, I was able to go up and do the replacement. After I finished, the first customer impatiently waited on a cholla cactus about 20 feet away from where I was. I took this photo of the curve billed thrasher using the Canon SL1 and 300mm telephoto lens.<\/p>\n<p>A little later, I went out front where Damsel has a few cacti growing in the landscape rock garden. It would seem that we&#8217;re going to have a lot of pink and purple flowers soon. Left to right in the lower panel above: beavertail cactus flower bud, several hedgehog flower buds and scores more beavertail buds on one very prolific plant. I took these photos also with the same camera, but with a shorter focal length for close-ups. Click on any image to enlarge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I climbed up on the hill out back to replace the bird seed bell and block that would usually be up there; since the rain&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,10,49,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-environment","category-home-garden","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}