{"id":1337,"date":"2012-08-28T08:34:59","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T12:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=1337"},"modified":"2012-08-28T08:40:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T12:40:00","slug":"around-the-garden-over-the-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=1337","title":{"rendered":"Around the Garden Over the Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Both kids were here for a visit over the weekend; a rare treat for us. Thus, I did not get\u00a0 time for any photographic &#8220;expeditions&#8221;. There were, however,\u00a0 a number of interesting visitors to Joan&#8217;s garden and its immediate surroundings which I did manage to photograph.<\/p>\n<p>The black swallowtail caterpillars (there are three or four of them) have been hanging around the garden for a week or more. They have more-or-less wiped out the dill (apparently well known as a favorite of theirs) and have moved on to the parsley.<\/p>\n<p>The painted ladies were abundant on Saturday; sometimes I could see five or six from a single vantage point. They were actively nectaring on the flowers that encircle the garden.<\/p>\n<p>The gray tree frog, which was sitting on the Swiss chard,\u00a0 is a rare visitor; neither Joan nor I had ever seen one before. Apparently they are not particularly rare; see: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wildlife.state.nh.us\/Wildlife\/Nongame\/frogs\/frog_graytreefrog.htm\">http:\/\/www.wildlife.state.nh.us\/Wildlife\/Nongame\/frogs\/frog_graytreefrog.htm<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[scrollGallery id=160 autoscroll = false width = 600 height = 600\u00a0 useCaptions = true]<\/p>\n<p>Note the new method of displaying photographs in this post. Any opinions on this &#8220;style&#8221; compared to the usual one?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both kids were here for a visit over the weekend; a rare treat for us. Thus, I did not get\u00a0 time for any photographic &#8220;expeditions&#8221;. There were, however,\u00a0 a number of interesting visitors to Joan&#8217;s garden and its immediate surroundings which I did manage to photograph. The black swallowtail caterpillars (there are three or four [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,5,28,3],"tags":[41,13,16,31],"class_list":["post-1337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amphibians","category-odontates","category-other-insects","category-wildlife","tag-butterflies","tag-damselflies","tag-frogs","tag-insects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1337"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1351,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337\/revisions\/1351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}