{"id":4308,"date":"2018-02-18T08:28:32","date_gmt":"2018-02-18T15:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susanbgraham.com\/blog\/?p=4308"},"modified":"2018-02-18T08:28:32","modified_gmt":"2018-02-18T15:28:32","slug":"first-crocus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susanbgraham.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/18\/first-crocus\/","title":{"rendered":"First Crocus !"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><h4>First Crocus of 2018!<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<p>First crocus of spring means true Spring is not far away. A harbinger of Spring&#8230;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4309\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4309\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/susanbgraham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/20180217-Susan-Brandt-Graham-Graham_-Susan_-Brandt_2018_02_17_8903.jpg\" alt=\"crocus\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/susanbgraham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/20180217-Susan-Brandt-Graham-Graham_-Susan_-Brandt_2018_02_17_8903.jpg 600w, https:\/\/susanbgraham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/20180217-Susan-Brandt-Graham-Graham_-Susan_-Brandt_2018_02_17_8903-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/susanbgraham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/20180217-Susan-Brandt-Graham-Graham_-Susan_-Brandt_2018_02_17_8903-400x320.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4309\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">First Crocus of 2018<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Leaf buds are already swelling on the roses. Peach buds are swelling. Weeds are already popping up. \ud83d\ude42 Longer daylight is also clearly here. The crocus is small and will be short lived. But its bright color announces it presence without question and portends a colorful season ahead.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like fcbkbttn_large_button\"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/susanbgraham.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/18\/first-crocus\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"button_count\"  size=\"large\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/susanbgraham.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/18\/first-crocus\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Crocus of 2018! First crocus of spring means true Spring is not far away. A harbinger of Spring&#8230; Leaf buds are already swelling on the roses. Peach buds are swelling. 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But its bright &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/susanbgraham.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/18\/first-crocus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;First Crocus !&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,80,269,3,263,1],"tags":[81,271,13,75],"series":[],"class_list":["post-4308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-albuquerque","category-bulbs","category-crocus","category-flowers","category-spring","category-uncategorized","tag-bulbs-2","tag-crocus","tag-flowers-2","tag-spring"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>First Crocus ! - Susan Brandt Graham Photography<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"First crocus of spring means true Spring is not far away. 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