{"id":7198,"date":"2010-05-22T14:37:34","date_gmt":"2010-05-22T23:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/?p=7198"},"modified":"2010-05-22T14:37:34","modified_gmt":"2010-05-22T23:07:34","slug":"painting-for-the-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/painting-for-the-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"Painting for the birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of new paintings inspired by all the songbirds who love my backyard. The returning cardinal was flashing his red in my apple tree this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Birdsong. Acrylic on canvas panel, 16&#8243;x20&#8243; 2010.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Birdsong.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Birdsong\" src=\"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Birdsong.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"357\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Strawberries keep coming despite the weediness of the beds. Like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherearthnews.com\/Organic-Gardening\/2004-02-01\/Ruth-Stouts-System.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Ruth Stout<\/a>, I have no intention of wasting time weeding while they keep producing like crazy. I already have enough to fill a shelf in the fridge.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ee; text-decoration: underline;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>this one is called Waterfall. Acrylic on canvas panel, 12&#8243;x9&#8243; 2010.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Waterfall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7200\" title=\"Waterfall\" src=\"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Waterfall.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"339\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;this is just the beginning. I&#8217;ve read that it&#8217;s impossible to eat too many strawberries.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Strawberries_lateMay.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7201\" title=\"Strawberries_lateMay\" src=\"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Strawberries_lateMay.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"361\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Strawberries_weeds.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7202\" title=\"Strawberries_weeds\" src=\"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Strawberries_weeds.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Buddyingardens.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7203\" title=\"Buddyingardens\" src=\"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Buddyingardens.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"341\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>these are the late strawberries and luckily the two beds are staggered, or I&#8217;d be out there picking non-stop.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Strawberries_late.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7204\" title=\"Strawberries_late\" src=\"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Strawberries_late.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"302\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>the white peony always blooms first. Ants love it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Peony.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7205\" title=\"Peony\" src=\"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Peony.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"433\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of new paintings inspired by all the songbirds who love my backyard. The returning cardinal was flashing his red in my apple tree this afternoon. Birdsong. Acrylic on canvas panel, 16&#8243;x20&#8243; 2010. Strawberries keep coming despite the weediness &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/painting-for-the-birds\/\">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":[5,11,3],"tags":[290,880,27,1714,907,908,314,224,540,313,910,906,56,909],"class_list":["post-7198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-meanderings","category-new-work","category-paintings","tag-abstract","tag-acrylic","tag-art","tag-painting-drawing-conceptual","tag-birds","tag-birdsong","tag-contemporary-art","tag-gardens","tag-modern-art","tag-original-painting","tag-ruth-stout","tag-strawberry-season","tag-victoria-webb","tag-weeds"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7198","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=7198"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7216,"href":"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7198\/revisions\/7216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}