{"id":1006,"date":"2019-04-09T13:21:23","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T20:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeanneferris.com\/LatestNews\/?p=1006"},"modified":"2019-04-09T13:26:25","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T20:26:25","slug":"nature-inspired-and-nature-inspires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jeanneferris.com\/LatestNews\/archives\/1006","title":{"rendered":"Nature inspired and nature inspires&#8212;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who hasn&#8217;t been visited this year by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monarch-butterfly.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Monarch<\/a>? Or the migration of a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.butterfliesandmoths.org\/species\/Vanessa-cardui\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Painted Lady<\/a>? Or seen the glorious abundance of posies everywhere in the aftermath of the winter rains?<\/p>\n<p>My second favorite flower is the California state flower: golden poppies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theflowerexpert.com\/content\/aboutflowers\/stateflowers\/california-state-flowers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Golden<\/b>\u00a0Poppy<\/a> (Eschscholtzia californica) is also sometimes known as the Flame Flower, la amapola, and Copa de Oro (cup of gold). The\u00a0<b>Golden<\/b>\u00a0Poppy, belonging to the Papaveraceae family, grows wild throughout California, and became the state flower in 1903.<\/p>\n<p>A short season but oh so colorful and inspiring. Traffic on I-15 has been like flowergeddon&#8212;everyone wants photos and a &#8220;looksee&#8221; of the fields of gold. I remember growing up and having to take a car ride to Lancaster where fields and fields of golden poppies undulated gently on mounds. The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_Oz_characters_(created_by_Baum)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cowardly Lion<\/a> never had a chance in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_Oz_characters_(created_by_Baum)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wizard of Oz<\/a> I always thought.<\/p>\n<p>I have also noticed everyone is inspired by color: a friend painted her patio furniture Caribbean colors, another started a new way of painting on repurposed wood, my daughter dresses in an explosion of colors and I? I am inspired to line my eyes with a smoky deep purple.<\/p>\n<p>How about you?<\/p>\n<p>Happy Spring again,<a href=\"http:\/\/jeanneferris.com\/LatestNews\/archives\/1006\/img_2229-1\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1007\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1007\" src=\"http:\/\/jeanneferris.com\/LatestNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_2229-1-e1554841174674-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude09 j<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who hasn&#8217;t been visited this year by a Monarch? Or the migration of a\u00a0Painted Lady? Or seen the glorious abundance of posies everywhere in the aftermath of the winter rains? My second favorite flower is the California state flower: golden poppies. Golden\u00a0Poppy (Eschscholtzia californica) is also sometimes known as the Flame Flower, la amapola, and &bull;  <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/jeanneferris.com\/LatestNews\/archives\/1006\"> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[190,187,192,188,189,191],"class_list":["post-1006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fresh-drinking-water-governor-brown-twin-tunnels","tag-california","tag-california-golden-poppy","tag-cowardly-lion","tag-monarch-butterfly","tag-painted-lady-butterfly","tag-wizard-of-oz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jeanneferris.com\/LatestNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jeanneferris.com\/LatestNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jeanneferris.com\/LatestNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jeanneferris.com\/LatestNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jeanneferris.com\/LatestNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jeanneferris.com\/LatestNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009,"href":"http:\/\/jeanneferris.com\/LatestNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006\/revisions\/1009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jeanneferris.com\/LatestNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jeanneferris.com\/LatestNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jeanneferris.com\/LatestNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}