{"id":3148,"date":"2011-04-07T16:01:43","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T21:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/?p=3148"},"modified":"2011-04-07T16:09:18","modified_gmt":"2011-04-07T21:09:18","slug":"more-signs-of-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/?p=3148","title":{"rendered":"More Signs of Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Growing up in central KS, I read every nature themed book I could gather.\u00a0 Most in those days featured natural history subjects from eastern North America&#8211;a few from the west.\u00a0 I longed to see the Smokey mountains in the spring, walk along the C and O canal, or see warblers dripping from trees during migration.\u00a0 Imagine my surprise\u00a0 and elation when I identified my first bright yellow male goldfinch as a 12 year old in my own backyard&#8212;I thought those birds were &#8220;back East&#8221;.\u00a0 Of course as my experiences grew I came to realize that much of what was discussed in nature themed books was indeed part of my own Kansas environment.\u00a0 Still until I enrolled at KU in 1969, I had never seen any of the &#8220;woodland ephemerals&#8221; so talked about in any coverage of spring in eastern deciduous woodlands.\u00a0 I saw my first ephemerals in my second spring at KU in Baldwin Woods.\u00a0 I ritually, return every spring to check on these populations of small, early wildflowers.\u00a0 Their appearance each year grounds me.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s some recent photos:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"False Rue Anemone\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5263\/5594075438_a891901923_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">False Rue Anemone<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5141\/5593437381_8bf5fdf5c8_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rue Anemone<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5145\/5593474411_177625fc9c_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dutchman&#39;s Breeches<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5184\/5594060632_231cf61df9_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Erythronium albidum<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5261\/5594157240_8506ed1e2d_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spring Beauty<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Growing up in central KS, I read every nature themed book I could gather.\u00a0 Most in those days featured natural history subjects from eastern North America&#8211;a few from the west.\u00a0 I longed to see the Smokey mountains in the spring, walk along the C and O canal, or see warblers dripping from trees during migration.\u00a0<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/?p=3148\">+ Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_s2mail":"yes","_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kabt-news","category-nature"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3148"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3151,"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3148\/revisions\/3151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}