{"id":27261,"date":"2012-03-19T19:54:39","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T23:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=27261"},"modified":"2012-03-19T19:54:39","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T23:54:39","slug":"the-wispy-side-of-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=27261","title":{"rendered":"the wispy side of spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><big><center><\/p>\n<p>Insubstantial Sisyrinchium bellum, Blue-Eyed Grass, is an elusive subject for the camera due to its habit of shutting its petals around &#8220;magic&#8221; hour, that pre-sunrise\/post-sunset window when a photographer can rarely go astray.  Still, it&#8217;s an utterly charming denizen of path-side plantings.  Modest, self-effacing, unobtrusive, all those old-fashioned virtues are embodied in this California native.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/march2012\/319aft028-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Its neat and tidy evergreen grassiness would hardly be worth a mention all year, but for the morning in late winter when the slim leaves are topped with starry blue eyes winking up from the pathway&#8217;s edge, where there was nothing but green the day before.  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/march2012\/319aft022-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This little relative of irises will never command a room, but it also will never be an obnoxious trouble-maker like Ipheion uniflora, a blue-flowered menace of a bulb which blooms here about the same time.  Like the quiet person at the party that unexpectedly scintillates on closer acquaintance, that is the delicate appeal of Blue-Eyed Grass.  <\/p>\n<p><\/big><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Insubstantial Sisyrinchium bellum, Blue-Eyed Grass, is an elusive subject for the camera due to its habit of shutting its petals around &#8220;magic&#8221; hour, that pre-sunrise\/post-sunset window when a photographer can rarely go astray. Still, it&#8217;s an utterly charming denizen of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=27261\">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":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[36],"tags":[1120,1830],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paNJ2E-75H","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27261"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27261"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27290,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27261\/revisions\/27290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}