{"id":532,"date":"2009-04-28T21:29:55","date_gmt":"2009-04-29T05:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/28\/a-walk-in-the-park\/"},"modified":"2009-09-01T21:24:51","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T05:24:51","slug":"a-walk-in-the-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/28\/a-walk-in-the-park\/","title":{"rendered":"A Walk in the Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dave and I took advantage of a nice spring day to enjoy nearby <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dolores_Park\">Mission Dolores Park<\/a>, a green island between the Mission and Castro neighborhoods. We didn&#8217;t find any orchids, but there was so much in bloom that we barely noticed. These delightful cherry blossoms had us pulling out our cameras before we even got to the park. Along the way we also looked up at a majestic Canary Island Date Palm, which can grow taller than 60 ft. (18 m.) This one was a baby by comparison at about 40 ft. (12 m.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/cherry_blossoms_1_640px.jpg\" title=\"Cherry blossoms with Victorian architecture in background\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/cherry_blossoms_1_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Cherry blossoms with Victorian architecture in background\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/cherry_blossoms_2_640px.jpg\" title=\"Cherry blossoms close up\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/cherry_blossoms_2_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Cherry blossoms close up\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/canary-island_palm_900px.jpg\" title=\"Canary Island Date Palm\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/canary-island_palm_900px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Canary Island Date Palm\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Eventually we made it to the park, and the flower beds were bursting with new growth. Of course, spring in California means poppies, which are the official state flower. The blue Love-in-the-mist and yellow iris need no official recognition to proclaim their beauty.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/california_poppies_640px.jpg\" title=\"Poppies\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/california_poppies_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Poppies\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/love_in_the_mist_640px.jpg\" title=\"Nigella flower\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/love_in_the_mist_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Nigella flower\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/iris_640px.jpg\" title=\"Iris flower\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/iris_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Iris flower\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The gorgeous orange flower below looks like a type of daisy. It was partially hidden by the dense growth around it, easily missed by those rushing by. Next, there&#8217;s a park view of\u00a0 nearby Mission High School. The building in the distance on the right with a gilded dome is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/San_Francisco_City_Hall\">San Francisco City Hall<\/a>. Finally, a view of downtown from the park shows overhead trolley wires in the foreground, and the famous Transamerica Pyramid in the distance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dolores_park_640px.jpg\" title=\"Orange flower\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dolores_park_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Orange flower\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/mission_dolores_park_view_640px.jpg\" title=\"View of Mission High from Dolores Park\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/mission_dolores_park_view_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"View of Mission High from Dolores Park\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/mission_dolores_park_view_900px.jpg\" title=\"View of downtown San Francisco from Dolores Park\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/mission_dolores_park_view_900px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"View of downtown San Francisco from Dolores Park\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave and I took advantage of a nice spring day to enjoy nearby Mission Dolores Park, a green island between the Mission and Castro neighborhoods. We didn&#8217;t find any orchids, but there was so much in bloom that we barely noticed. These delightful cherry blossoms had us pulling out our cameras before we even got [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-gardening","category-misc","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}