{"id":7170,"date":"2010-05-19T17:23:29","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T01:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/?p=7170"},"modified":"2010-05-19T17:23:49","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T01:53:49","slug":"strawberries-the-gardens-and-finished-paintings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/strawberries-the-gardens-and-finished-paintings\/","title":{"rendered":"Strawberries, the gardens and finished paintings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The strawberries are coming in fast and luscious. I&#8217;m picking them twice daily to keep up and eating just as many. I sprayed a fungicide on the two apple trees for the first time and hope that helps with the scab and cedar rust. I&#8217;ve been reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.herbsandapples.com\/orchard\/\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Phillips&#8217;<\/a> book on organic orchard development, but there is a lot I still don&#8217;t know about how to manage even a tiny orchard of \u00c2\u00a0two trees.<\/p>\n<p>Lettuces and radicchio wintered over from the late summer plantings and the purple asparagus is still shoving its stalks up on these mid May rainy, cool mornings.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Liberty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7171\" title=\"Liberty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Liberty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"338\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/LibertyApple.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7172\" title=\"LibertyApple\" src=\"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/LibertyApple.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The musk roses are free of black spot and aphids.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/BlushRoses.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7173\" title=\"BlushRoses\" src=\"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/BlushRoses.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"305\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Beautiful oakleafed lettuces and radicchio from Umbria, 2007.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/RogueLettuce_Radicchio.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7174\" title=\"RogueLettuce_Radicchio\" src=\"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/RogueLettuce_Radicchio.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"338\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;just the beginning of the deluge.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Strawberries.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7175\" title=\"Strawberries\" src=\"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Strawberries.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"353\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/SundayLaziness.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7177\" title=\"SundayLaziness\" src=\"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/SundayLaziness.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"308\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These are the acrylic works that I finalized last week. Back to experiment with more ideas this week.<\/p>\n<p>an homage to the neighbor&#8217;s cat Buddy, \u00c2\u00a0as he basked in the gardens.<br \/>\nBlack Cat Gardens. Acrylic on canvas panel, 16&#8243;x20&#8243;, 2010<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/BlackCatinGardens2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7178\" title=\"BlackCatinGardens2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/BlackCatinGardens2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"356\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sometime in Spring. Acrylic on canvas panel, 13&#8243;x12&#8243;, 2010.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/SometimeinSpring2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7179\" title=\"SometimeinSpring2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/SometimeinSpring2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"435\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Azaleas. Acrylic on canvas panel 9&#8243;x12&#8243; 2010.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Azaleas2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7180\" title=\"Azaleas2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Azaleas2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"335\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The strawberries are coming in fast and luscious. I&#8217;m picking them twice daily to keep up and eating just as many. I sprayed a fungicide on the two apple trees for the first time and hope that helps with the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/strawberries-the-gardens-and-finished-paintings\/\">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":[1],"tags":[290,880,905,27,1714,630,904,314,545,903,291,313,205],"class_list":["post-7170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-abstract","tag-acrylic","tag-acrylic-on-canvas","tag-art","tag-painting-drawing-conceptual","tag-artwork","tag-black-cat-gardens","tag-contemporary-art","tag-fine-art","tag-green","tag-original-art","tag-original-painting","tag-spring"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7170"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7190,"href":"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7170\/revisions\/7190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}