{"id":2625,"date":"2016-06-14T08:34:57","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T07:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/?p=2625"},"modified":"2016-06-14T08:34:57","modified_gmt":"2016-06-14T07:34:57","slug":"in-the-field-of-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/?p=2625","title":{"rendered":"In the field of gold"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The late evening sun lit up the buttercups in the Hatton field as I went for a walk with the dogs last night.\u00a0\u00a0 June seems to bring so many flowers into bloom, and the evening sun enhances the colours.\u00a0\u00a0 The field last night looked quite golden and green.<\/p>\n

But it was not the buttercups which drew camera but the Northern Marsh Orchids which seem to have appeared over the past few days all over the field, many more than I remember from previous years.\u00a0 Fortunately the grass was quite dry, \u00a0because I had to get up close and personal with these little purple charmers.\u00a0\u00a0 And there was “gardening to do”, removing spikes of grass and other vegetation which got in the way of the picture.\u00a0\u00a0 Both Lily and Poppy were quite intrigued about what I was up to, watching as I lay\u00a0down in the tall grass.\u00a0\u00a0 Lily even managed to provide a doggy background to one of my pictures.\u00a0\u00a0 Although perhaps not the best botanical specimen, I like the picture which the spikes of grass and the sky in the distance.<\/p>\n

\"Lily<\/a>
Lily gets into the picture<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Further on in our walk, beside the wetland area, \u00a0I noticed how the buttercups provided an interesting golden carpet behind the cow parsley.\u00a0 It’s growing quickly now and quite high in places.\u00a0\u00a0 Looking it up on the internet I discovered that what I know as cow parsley has several other common names, including the lovely, Queen Anne’s Lace.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0A much prettier name for this lacy flower.<\/p>\n

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\"Stalking<\/a>
Stalking the photographer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The late evening sun lit up the buttercups in the Hatton field as I went for a walk with the dogs last night.\u00a0\u00a0 June seems to bring so many flowers into bloom, and the evening sun enhances the colours.\u00a0\u00a0 The field last night looked quite golden and green. But it was not the buttercups which…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crudencountry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2625"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2633,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2625\/revisions\/2633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}