{"id":232,"date":"2023-04-22T14:16:39","date_gmt":"2023-04-22T18:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/?p=232"},"modified":"2023-04-22T14:16:39","modified_gmt":"2023-04-22T18:16:39","slug":"dogwood-blossoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/2023\/04\/22\/dogwood-blossoms\/","title":{"rendered":"Dogwood Blossoms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dogwood blossoms are unique, which is another way of saying that they&#8217;re easy to identify. The blossoms are also beautiful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I took the first two photos after a walk in the game land (the tree is close to my front door), and I had ideal weather, a bright blue sky that helps show off the blossoms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"389\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/b7902-dogwood-blos-20apr2023.jpg?resize=640%2C389&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/b7902-dogwood-blos-20apr2023.jpg?resize=1024%2C623&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/b7902-dogwood-blos-20apr2023.jpg?resize=300%2C182&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/b7902-dogwood-blos-20apr2023.jpg?resize=768%2C467&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/b7902-dogwood-blos-20apr2023.jpg?w=1480&amp;ssl=1 1480w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/b7902-dogwood-blos-20apr2023.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Dogwood blossoms.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"389\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/b7906-dogwood-blos-20apr2023.jpg?resize=640%2C389&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/b7906-dogwood-blos-20apr2023.jpg?resize=1024%2C623&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/b7906-dogwood-blos-20apr2023.jpg?resize=300%2C182&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/b7906-dogwood-blos-20apr2023.jpg?resize=768%2C467&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/b7906-dogwood-blos-20apr2023.jpg?w=1480&amp;ssl=1 1480w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/b7906-dogwood-blos-20apr2023.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Dogwood blossoms.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The second two photos are from the following day, in which the sky wasn&#8217;t quite so blue (because a high haze was forming), but I tried to compensate for that in Photoshop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"389\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/a1651-dogwood-blos-21apr2023.jpg?resize=640%2C389&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/a1651-dogwood-blos-21apr2023.jpg?resize=1024%2C623&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/a1651-dogwood-blos-21apr2023.jpg?resize=300%2C182&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/a1651-dogwood-blos-21apr2023.jpg?resize=768%2C467&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/a1651-dogwood-blos-21apr2023.jpg?w=1480&amp;ssl=1 1480w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/a1651-dogwood-blos-21apr2023.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Dogwood blossoms.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/a1655a-dogwood-blos-21apr2023.jpg?resize=640%2C389&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-236\" width=\"640\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/a1655a-dogwood-blos-21apr2023.jpg?resize=1024%2C623&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/a1655a-dogwood-blos-21apr2023.jpg?resize=300%2C182&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/a1655a-dogwood-blos-21apr2023.jpg?resize=768%2C467&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/a1655a-dogwood-blos-21apr2023.jpg?w=1480&amp;ssl=1 1480w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/a1655a-dogwood-blos-21apr2023.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Dogwood blossoms<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Spring is incredible . . . at least when it comes to the blossoms everywhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dogwood blossoms are unique, which is another way of saying that they&#8217;re easy to identify. The blossoms are also beautiful. I took the first two photos after a walk in the game land (the tree is close to my front &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/2023\/04\/22\/dogwood-blossoms\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[56],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spring-blossoms","tag-dogwood-blossoms"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237,"href":"https:\/\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions\/237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}