{"id":373,"date":"2008-12-09T20:20:16","date_gmt":"2008-12-10T03:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/?p=373"},"modified":"2012-07-07T20:49:19","modified_gmt":"2012-07-08T02:49:19","slug":"the-flowers-that-bloom-in-the-winter-tra-la","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/the-flowers-that-bloom-in-the-winter-tra-la\/","title":{"rendered":"The flowers that bloom in the &#8230; winter,  tra la!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-374\" title=\"winter flowers 1\" src=\"http:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/winter-flowers-1-221x300.jpg\" alt=\"winter flowers 1\" width=\"221\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/winter-flowers-1-221x300.jpg 221w, https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/winter-flowers-1.jpg 743w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 221px) 100vw, 221px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Gilbert and Sullivan &#8211; now back to our correspondent in Taipei.<\/p>\n<p>I know its not the bleak, mid winter yet, but I\u2019m having a hard time getting concerned at all.\u00a0 The weather does seem a bit unsettled, if you call vacillating between balmy mid to upper 70s and somewhat chilly, drizzly mid 60s unsettled.\u00a0 I suppose it did get down into the 50s in the middle of one night, but I missed it.<\/p>\n<p>The picture above was taken last Sunday along the river near where we live.\u00a0 Here\u2019s the full picture of its prolific blooming:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-375\" title=\"winter flowers 2\" src=\"http:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/winter-flowers-2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"winter flowers 2\" width=\"690\" height=\"517\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/winter-flowers-2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/winter-flowers-2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Beautiful tree, isn\u2019t it?!\u00a0 The birds have not all flown south, either.\u00a0 This fun, leggy avian was casually scouting upstream for lunch.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-376\" title=\"winter flowers 3\" src=\"http:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/winter-flowers-3.jpg\" alt=\"winter flowers 3\" width=\"637\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/winter-flowers-3.jpg 710w, https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/winter-flowers-3-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 637px) 100vw, 637px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Do you see the brilliant color of its beak?\u00a0 The water is actually shallow where it is, so the feet are just a few inches further down the legs.\u00a0 Sorry, I can\u2019t name it.\u00a0 Specific names of things are the least available vocabulary.\u00a0 I\u2019d probably have to find an English-Chinese speaking bird watcher, and then it is questionable if he would know the name in both languages.<\/p>\n<p>Greg and I were walking along the river at a medium pace, since I\u2019m still on restrictions, and wondering how all of those people bundled up in coats could stand it.\u00a0\u00a0 To us, it looked like they were wearing ski gear.\u00a0 They were probably wondering why we weren\u2019t cold.\u00a0 It does seem to be too cold to use the outdoor swimming pool, though, even for us.\u00a0 Its not heated.<\/p>\n<p>Coming soon &#8211;\u00a0 a short piece about my favorite ice cream stand!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you, Gilbert and Sullivan &#8211; now back to our correspondent in Taipei. I know its not the bleak, mid winter yet, but I\u2019m having a hard time getting concerned at all.\u00a0 The weather does seem a bit unsettled, if you call vacillating between balmy mid to upper 70s and somewhat chilly, drizzly mid 60s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}