{"id":89,"date":"2011-04-11T03:33:02","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T03:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/?p=89"},"modified":"2011-04-11T03:42:14","modified_gmt":"2011-04-11T03:42:14","slug":"april-week-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/?p=89","title":{"rendered":"April – week 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>We have had lots of rain in the Bay Area which you would think produced a plentiful wildflower bloom.\u00c2\u00a0 It seems the invasive grasses respond profusely to the rains.\u00c2\u00a0 But you can still find among them plentiful colors and the California golden icon \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the POPPY.\u00c2\u00a0 The California Poppy is solid orange and the Coastal Poppy is a two tone \u00e2\u20ac\u201c yellow and orange flower.\u00c2\u00a0 (and my favorite).\u00c2\u00a0 Blossom by Blossom we bloom again and again.<\/p>\n

Although we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have carpets of poppies like you find in the Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve, but you can find wonderful patches on the hillsides, sand dunes and highways providing ample samples of beauty.\u00c2\u00a0 Abbott\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Lagoon and Kehoe Beach in Point Reyes National Seashore are good locations for the Coastal Poppy and Mt. Diablo for the California Poppy.<\/p>\n

California Native Americans cherished the poppy as both a source of food and for oil extracted from the plant. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Its botanical name, Eschsholtzia californica, was given by Adelbert Von Chamisso, a naturalist and member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences, who dropped anchor in San Francisco in 1816 in a bay surrounded by hills of the golden flowers. Also sometimes known as the flame flower, la amapola, and copa de oro (cup of gold), the poppy grows wild throughout California. It became the state flower in 1903. Every year April 6 is California Poppy Day, and Governor Wilson proclaimed May 13-18, 1996, Poppy Week.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Please be sure to see my \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Poppy\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/a> portfolio.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Because I was off to visit my dad in Schenectady, New York, I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have much time to be out and about with my camera.\u00c2\u00a0 But just yesterday morning I saw a wonderful pattern in my kitchen.\u00c2\u00a0 The morning sun was shining and coming through a plastic cup on the sink\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s edge.\u00c2\u00a0 I was attracted to the pattern that was cast as the light came through the glass.<\/p>\n

Adding a blue piece of construction paper beneath the cup created the feeling of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153waves.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0 These little details create wonderful abstracts.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It is astonishing how short a time it takes for very wonderful things to happen.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Francis Burnett<\/em><\/p>\n

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We have had lots of rain in the Bay Area which you would think produced a plentiful wildflower bloom.\u00c2\u00a0 It seems the invasive grasses respond profusely to the rains.\u00c2\u00a0 But you can still find among them plentiful colors and the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hkEw-1r","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}