{"id":1097,"date":"2010-09-30T07:17:05","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T11:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/?p=1097"},"modified":"2011-11-15T18:01:45","modified_gmt":"2011-11-15T23:01:45","slug":"up-close-and-personal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/2010\/09\/up-close-and-personal\/","title":{"rendered":"Up Close And Personal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1098\" title=\"bumblebee3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bumblebee3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bumblebee3.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bumblebee3-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Look at my little freckled friend\u2014freckled with pollen, that is.<\/p>\n<p>I love taking my camera around the yard and finding new subjects. Take, for instance, the pictures of my sedum. I was traipsing through the flower beds noting the faded blooms, dead leaves, and broken, spent stems when I came upon my three sedum plants. All three were ablaze with bumble bee activity!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nothing else was going on in those tired, old flower beds except for the little energized world on those sedum blooms.\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1100\" title=\"bumblebee2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bumblebee2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bumblebee2.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bumblebee2-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s funny:\u00a0 I&#8217;ll slow down to capture something and end up being captivated by what I&#8217;m viewing through the lens.<\/p>\n<p>Gee, who&#8217;s catching whom?<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1102  alignleft\" style=\"margin-top: 36px; margin-bottom: 36px;\" title=\"bumblebee1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bumblebee1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"278\" height=\"193\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look at my little freckled friend\u2014freckled with pollen, that is. I love taking my camera around the yard and finding new subjects. Take, for instance, the pictures of my sedum. I was traipsing through the flower beds noting the faded blooms, dead leaves, and broken, spent stems when I came upon my three sedum plants. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[104,35,18,62,19,73,105],"class_list":["post-1097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-bumble-bees","tag-family","tag-farming","tag-flowers","tag-hobbyfarm","tag-pollinators","tag-sedum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}