{"id":8742,"date":"2017-01-22T17:35:03","date_gmt":"2017-01-22T06:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soundslikewish.com\/?p=8742"},"modified":"2017-01-22T17:35:03","modified_gmt":"2017-01-22T06:35:03","slug":"changing-seasons-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=8742","title":{"rendered":"Changing Seasons: January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cardinal Guzman has put up a <a href=\"https:\/\/cardinalguzman.wordpress.com\/2017\/01\/20\/the-changing-seasons-january-2017\/\">photo challenge<\/a> that seems challenging enough for me as a non-photographer.<\/p>\n<p>He has two versions. I&#8217;ve chosen the easy path:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Each month, post one photo (recipe, painting, drawing, whatever) that represents your interpretation of the month.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Don\u2019t use archive stuff. Only new material!<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This morning I was in the Botanic Gardens here in Canberra and was stopped in my tracks by this Corymbia ficifolia. Family: Myrtaceae. Dwarf orange. Sometimes called Red Flowering Gum.<\/p>\n<p>The Canberra Botanic Garden has nothing but native plants. The gardeners have found ways to grow plants from all parts of Australia, even rainforest plants in a lower part that is reached by stone staircases, a place that&#8217;s kept dark and wet to encourage rainforest trees and ferns to grow. And up in the bright sunlight there are trees like this orange Corymbia ficifolia, a native from a small area near Walpole, way down on the very south-west coast of Western Australia, and here it is growing on the opposite side of the country in a different climate. Bravo, Botanic Gardeners!<\/p>\n<p>The photo is my interpretation of January in Australia. Bright orange native flowers, clear blue sky, hot morning.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8744\" src=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/01\/dsc06216.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/dsc06216.jpg 5472w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/dsc06216-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/dsc06216-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/dsc06216-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/dsc06216-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cardinal Guzman has put up a photo challenge that seems challenging enough for me as a non-photographer. He has two versions. I&#8217;ve chosen the easy path: Each month, post one photo (recipe, painting, drawing, whatever) that represents your interpretation of the month. Don\u2019t use archive stuff. Only new material! This morning I was in the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=8742\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Changing Seasons: January&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[952,953,666,105,576,954,955,7,8,21,956],"class_list":["post-8742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-my-photos","tag-monthlyphotochallenge","tag-thechangingseasons","tag-australia","tag-canberra","tag-canberra-botanic-gardens","tag-corymbia-ficifolia","tag-photo-challenge-changing-seasons","tag-photography","tag-photos-2","tag-postaday","tag-red-flowering-gum"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}