{"id":84,"date":"2007-03-26T16:57:18","date_gmt":"2007-03-26T23:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.remarc.com\/craig\/?p=84"},"modified":"2007-03-26T16:57:18","modified_gmt":"2007-03-26T23:57:18","slug":"as-the-snow-retreats-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=84","title":{"rendered":"As the snow retreats (again)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first day of spring dawned at 4 F. \u00c2\u00a0But since then, it&#8217;s been in the 50s and 60s and most of the snow has retreated again &#8212; except for the drifts in the veggie garden and some of the piles along the driveway and in the ditches.  There&#8217;s a lot more to see than there was <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.remarc.com\/craig\/?p=71\">two weeks ago<\/a> when the snow retreated the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Crocuses are peaking where the soil is warmest.  (Click on images for larger view.)<\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"images\/crocusx1200.jpg\"><img ALT=\"crocuses\" SRC=\"images\/crocusx500.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What else is flowering?  Clockwise, an orange crocus, an iris (cristata?), the now trite clump of snowdrops (still my favorite spring ephemeral), and a nice spotted hellebore flower.<\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"images\/orange_crocusx500.jpg\"><img SRC=\"images\/crocusx250.jpg\" ALT=\"orange crocus\" \/><\/a><a HREF=\"images\/irisx500.jpg\"><img SRC=\"images\/irisx250.jpg\" ALT=\"iris\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"images\/spotted_helleborex1200.jpg\"><img SRC=\"images\/spotted_helleborex250.jpg\" ALT=\"spotted hellebore\" \/><\/a><a HREF=\"images\/snowdrop_clumpx500.jpg\"><img SRC=\"images\/snowdrop_clumpx250.jpg\" ALT=\"snowdrops\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first day of spring dawned at 4 F. \u00c2\u00a0But since then, it&#8217;s been in the 50s and 60s and most of the snow has retreated again &#8212; except for the drifts in the veggie garden and some of the piles along the driveway and in the ditches. There&#8217;s a lot more to see than &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=84\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;As the snow retreats (again)&#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":[10,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-perennials","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","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=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}