{"id":6860,"date":"2016-02-10T19:58:50","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T02:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2016\/02\/10\/first-plum-flower-of-early-spring\/"},"modified":"2016-02-10T19:58:50","modified_gmt":"2016-02-11T02:58:50","slug":"first-plum-flower-of-early-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2016\/02\/10\/first-plum-flower-of-early-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"First Plum Flower of (Early) Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/plum-flower.jpg' title='Plum Flower'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/plum-flower.jpg' alt='Plum Flower' width='550' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We were watching the last rays of the <a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/20160210-lastrays-of-sunlight.jpg' title='setting sun'>setting sun<\/a> in the courtyard this evening when I noticed that there was a flower open on our flowering plum tree. The open flower surprised me since the tree is completely denuded of leaves after the recent freezing weather (well a few nights, at least).<\/p>\n<p>The mature plum tree is a replacement for the original tree the landscapers planted in 2011. The old tree snapped off at the trunk (it was a smaller tree) during a 2014 microburst that took out a lot of the natural vegetation that summer.<\/p>\n<p>Soon, this tree will be growing it&#8217;s new spring leaves, but not before we prune off a few of the very low branches and suckers to encourage the tree to grow vertically and not into the walkway or the courtyard wall. Click on the image to enlarge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were watching the last rays of the setting sun in the courtyard this evening when I noticed that there was a flower open on our&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,72,49,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-flowers","category-home-garden","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6860","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}