{"id":3962,"date":"2011-05-13T21:49:56","date_gmt":"2011-05-14T01:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=3962"},"modified":"2011-05-16T23:12:48","modified_gmt":"2011-05-17T03:12:48","slug":"sity-memories-of-violets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=3962","title":{"rendered":"SITY: Memories of Violets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently wrote about ticks and how much they were ticking me off. If you read my comment on <a title=\"Ticked Off\" href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=3843\">the post<\/a>, you&#8217;ll see that just a quick walk in the yard garnered me another tick crawling on my leg. Yuck! I haven&#8217;t been out in the yard since, sad though that is.<\/p>\n<p>Because I haven&#8217;t been out, I haven&#8217;t been photographing and enjoying my violets. Of course, most of them are dead now, thanks to the lawn mower. Under other circumstances, I might have asked my husband to hold off, but mowing is one of the ways to keep the ticks out of your yard. It had to be done.<\/p>\n<p>I miss my violets. Let&#8217;s try to remember how beautiful they were. To help us, here are some photos I took a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3966\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/CanWeTalk.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3966\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3966\" title=\"CanWeTalk\" src=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/CanWeTalk-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/CanWeTalk-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/CanWeTalk-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/CanWeTalk.jpg 1023w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3966\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&quot;Can we talk?&quot;<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_3971\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/TwoViolets.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3971\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3971\" title=\"TwoViolets\" src=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/TwoViolets-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/TwoViolets-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/TwoViolets-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/TwoViolets.jpg 1364w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3971\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&quot;Two violets walk into a bar...&quot;<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_3969\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Sunshine.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3969\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3969\" title=\"Sunshine\" src=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Sunshine-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Sunshine-300x224.jpg 300w, http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Sunshine-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Sunshine.jpg 1136w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3969\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&quot;You make me happy when skies are grey...&quot;<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_3970\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/TinyWhite.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3970\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3970\" title=\"TinyWhite\" src=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/TinyWhite-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/TinyWhite-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/TinyWhite-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/TinyWhite.jpg 1287w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3970\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&quot;Good things come in small packages.&quot;<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_3968\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Dance.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3968\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3968\" title=\"Dance\" src=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Dance-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Dance-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Dance.jpg 909w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3968\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&quot;Dance with me.&quot;<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently wrote about ticks and how much they were ticking me off. If you read my comment on the post, you&#8217;ll see that just a quick walk in the yard garnered me another tick crawling on my leg. Yuck! &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=3962\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[115,332],"tags":[71,124,277,294],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3962"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3962"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4047,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3962\/revisions\/4047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}