{"id":349,"date":"2008-03-15T17:02:38","date_gmt":"2008-03-16T00:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.remarc.com\/craig\/?p=349"},"modified":"2009-02-14T18:17:18","modified_gmt":"2009-02-15T01:17:18","slug":"bloom-day-scans-mugshots-and-dragon-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=349","title":{"rendered":"Bloom day scans:  Mugshots and Dragon Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theithacajournal.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20080315\/NEWS0101\/803150375\/1002\/NEWS01\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmsimg.theithacajournal.com\/apps\/pbcsi.dll\/bilde?Site=AF&amp;Date=20080315&amp;Category=NEWS0101&amp;ArtNo=803150375&amp;Ref=V4&amp;Profile=1002&amp;MaxW=400&amp;MaxH=400\" alt=\"dragon\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>Lack of time and not much happening in the garden leaves me with just a few sloppy scans I squeezed in this morning.  A forced narcissus from inside and an eranthis about to bloom outside &#8212; about the only thing outside that I can count as a bloom.<\/p>\n<p>I have to remind myself that it&#8217;s only Dragon Day.  Actually, Friday was Dragon Day, the last day of classes before spring break at Cornell.  Spring break is a euphemism around here.  Officially, spring is still a week or so off.  And it&#8217;s at least a month until we start getting consistently spring-like weather in these parts.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, the annual Dragon Day ritual at Cornell has the first year architecture students crafting a large dragon that they parade across campus.  They are met by a phoenix built by the engineering students.  Everyone ends up back on the Arts Quad where they burn the dragon.  (This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cornell.edu\/video\/details.cfm?vidID=181&amp;display=player&amp;pover=qt&amp;qover=high\">video from 2007<\/a> shows how crazy and creative this event really is.) Then everyone goes home for a week.  Actually, judging from the tans of returning students, many go someplace much sunnier.<\/p>\n<p>We still have the annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.remarc.com\/craig\/?p=93\">Skunk Cabbage Run<\/a> and Tax Day (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.remarc.com\/craig\/?p=110\">which brought us a Nor&#8217;easter last year<\/a>) to punctuate spring before we really get cranked up for gardening season.<\/p>\n<p>View <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.cornell.edu\/stories\/March06\/DragonDay96-05.html\">dragons from the last 10 years<\/a>, and see more coverage of this year&#8217;s Dragon Day in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.cornell.edu\/stories\/March08\/dragonday08.gl.html\">Cornell Chronicle<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theithacajournal.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20080315\/NEWS0101\/803150375\/1002\/NEWS01\">Ithaca Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"images\/daff_eranthisx1200.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/daff_eranthisx500.jpg\" alt=\"narcissus and eranthis\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"images\/daff_profilex1200.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/daff_profilex500.jpg\" alt=\"narcissus \" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"images\/daffx1200.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/daffx500.jpg\" alt=\"narcissus\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"images\/eranthis_profilex1200.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/eranthis_profilex500.jpg\" alt=\"eranthis\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lack of time and not much happening in the garden leaves me with just a few sloppy scans I squeezed in this morning. A forced narcissus from inside and an eranthis about to bloom outside &#8212; about the only thing outside that I can count as a bloom. I have to remind myself that it&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=349\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bloom day scans:  Mugshots and Dragon Day&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,47,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-bulbs","category-bloom-day-scans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}