{"id":573898878,"date":"2026-04-03T20:09:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T00:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573898878"},"modified":"2026-05-19T12:22:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T16:22:36","slug":"the-flowery-content-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2026\/04\/03\/the-flowery-content-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"The flowery content begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Right by the corner of the garage we have an oversized shrub. It shows off these deep crimson leaves, a few branches of which will need to be trimmed back this year, for ease of navigation purposes. But, right now, as one of the many heralds of spring, it is giving us the seasonal show. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/apr26\/apr01.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The more spring the merrier. And this one is quote variable, which the science tells us is a sign of the times. It has been 84, 61 and 76 degrees the last three days. We also had a late seasonal freeze. Now we&#8217;re waiting to see what crops will be hurt by all of this. (Quite a bit, would be my guess.)<\/p>\n<p>But that shrub looks lovely!<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/blog\/banners\/bannerwildatlanticway.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still living in the happy memories of our wonderful Irish vacation. So, I&#8217;m sharing extra videos that we didn&#8217;t get to at the time. It was a great vacation. I have a lot of footage. This will go on for some time. Enjoy it with me, won&#8217;t you? And if you have any thoughts on sheep soundtracks, I&#8217;m accepting suggestions. <\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player.html?video=xaa9faw\"style=\"width:100%; height:100%; position:absolute; left:0px; top:0px; overflow:hidden; border:none;\"allowfullscreentitle=\"Dailymotion Video Player\"allow=\"web-share\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Happy weekend!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right by the corner of the garage we have an oversized shrub. It shows off these deep crimson leaves, a few branches of which will need to be trimmed back this year, for ease of navigation purposes. But, right now, as one of the many heralds of spring, it is giving us the seasonal show. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,62,6,10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573898878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friday","category-ireland","category-memories","category-photo","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573898878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573898878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573898878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573898879,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573898878\/revisions\/573898879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573898878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573898878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573898878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}