{"id":144,"date":"2022-03-20T14:49:31","date_gmt":"2022-03-20T14:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrisvreeland.com\/blog\/?p=144"},"modified":"2022-03-20T14:56:29","modified_gmt":"2022-03-20T14:56:29","slug":"happy-vernal-equinox-from-my-mammillaria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisvreeland.com\/blog\/?p=144","title":{"rendered":"Happy Vernal Equinox From My Mammillaria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>Not much else to type here.<\/em><\/strong> The maple tree is refusing to acknowledge that spring exists, and all the other cactuses in my cactus garden are grudgingly recovering from a couple nasty and traumatic freezes in February, but this little dude is going to town. I caught a couple macro shots in the evening sun. There&#8217;s not much for scale here &#8211; it&#8217;s smallish &#8212; maybe 4&#8243; in diameter, so these flowers are actually tiny but I think rather lovely. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking forward to what look like the beginnings of blooms on a couple other cactuses &#8212; my horse crippler &amp; claret cup are showing urges. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>May the new spring bring rebirth to the world, and a happy new season to those who celebrate such things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisvreeland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mammillara_Macro-1-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrisvreeland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mammillara_Macro-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"145\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/www.chrisvreeland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mammillara_Macro-1-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.chrisvreeland.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=145\" class=\"wp-image-145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chrisvreeland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mammillara_Macro-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.chrisvreeland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mammillara_Macro-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.chrisvreeland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mammillara_Macro-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.chrisvreeland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mammillara_Macro-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.chrisvreeland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mammillara_Macro-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.chrisvreeland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mammillara_Macro-1-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisvreeland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mammillara_Macro-2-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"878\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrisvreeland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mammillara_Macro-2-1024x878.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"146\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/www.chrisvreeland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mammillara_Macro-2-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.chrisvreeland.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=146\" class=\"wp-image-146\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chrisvreeland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mammillara_Macro-2-1024x878.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.chrisvreeland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mammillara_Macro-2-300x257.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.chrisvreeland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mammillara_Macro-2-768x658.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.chrisvreeland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mammillara_Macro-2-1536x1317.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.chrisvreeland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mammillara_Macro-2-2048x1756.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.chrisvreeland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mammillara_Macro-2-350x300.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-caption\">Click pic for full res.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not much else to type here. The maple tree is refusing to acknowledge that spring exists, and all the other cactuses in my cactus garden are grudgingly recovering from a couple nasty and traumatic freezes in February, but this little &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chrisvreeland.com\/blog\/?p=144\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisvreeland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisvreeland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisvreeland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisvreeland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisvreeland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisvreeland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisvreeland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions\/148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisvreeland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisvreeland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisvreeland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}