{"id":383,"date":"2007-02-14T00:39:25","date_gmt":"2007-02-13T15:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2007-02-14\/383"},"modified":"2007-04-10T00:22:08","modified_gmt":"2007-04-09T15:22:08","slug":"first-blossoms-of-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2007-02-14\/383","title":{"rendered":"First Blossoms of 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<p>Yesterday we went to some very old, semi-famous <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mochi\">mochi<\/a> shops in north-west\nKyoto, near the Imamiya Shrine. <span class='nobr'>We took the<\/span> opportunity to walk around the\nshrine <span class='nobr'>a bit,<\/span> and in doing so, found <span class='nobr'>a plum<\/span> (<span class='nobr'>I think<\/span>) tree just starting to\nblossom. This was especially surprising because this part of the city is\nknown to be generally colder than the main areas, by <span class='nobr'>a non<\/span>-trivial amount,\nso <span class='nobr'>I would<\/span> have expected it to be later than our area.<\/p>\n\n<p>In any case, my first blossom-related post is quite <span class='nobr'>a bit<\/span> earlier this\nyear than <a href=\"\/blog\/2006-04-08\/175\">last year (April\n8th)<\/a> or the <a href=\"\/blog\/2005-04-07\/6\">year before\n(April 7th)<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<div class='ic'><a name='025499' href=\"\/i\/JEF_025499.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JEF_025499_sm.jpg\" width=\"670\" height=\"449\"\nalt=\"Nikon D200 + Nikkor 17 -55 f\/2.8 @ 55mm &amp;mdash; 1 \/ 1000 sec, f\/2.8, ISO 250 &amp;mdash; map &amp; image data Buds on a (Plum?) Tree -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2007 Jeffrey Eric Francis Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i025499\"\nphotostream=\"spring\"\nstyle=\"border:solid 15px black\"\ntitle=\"Buds on a (plum?) tree\"\/><\/a><br\/><span class=\"robots-nocontent\" style='color:#BBB; font-size:85%'>Nikon D200 + <span class='nobr'>Nikkor 17<\/span>-55 f\/2.8 @ 55mm &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>1000 sec, f\/2.8, ISO 250 &mdash;\n<a class='quiet' style='color:#77B' href=\"\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJEF_025499.jpg\">map &amp; image data<\/a><\/span><br\/><span\nstyle='font-size:175%'>Buds on a (Plum?) Tree<\/span><\/div>\n\n<div class='ic'><a name='025501' href=\"\/i\/JEF_025501.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JEF_025501_sm.jpg\" width=\"670\" height=\"449\"\nalt=\"Nikon D200 + Nikkor 17 -55 f\/2.8 @ 55mm &amp;mdash; 1 \/ 5000 sec, f\/2.8, ISO 200 &amp;mdash; map &amp; image data One of about three blossoms on the tree -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2007 Jeffrey Eric Francis Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i025501\"\nphotostream=\"spring\"\nstyle=\"border:solid 15px black\"\ntitle=\"First blossom of 2007, Kyoto Japan\"\/><\/a><br\/><span class=\"robots-nocontent\" style='color:#BBB; font-size:85%'>Nikon D200 + <span class='nobr'>Nikkor 17<\/span>-55 f\/2.8 @ 55mm &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>5000 sec, f\/2.8, ISO 200 &mdash;\n<a class='quiet' style='color:#77B' href=\"\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJEF_025501.jpg\">map &amp; image data<\/a><\/span><br\/><span\nstyle='font-size:175%'>One of about three blossoms on the tree<\/span><\/div>\n\n<p style='margin-top:40px'>Near the tree in question, Fumie watches Anthony running around and\nplaying. <span class='nobr'>I really<\/span> like this shot..<\/p>\n\n<div class='ic'><a name='025494' href=\"\/i\/JEF_025494.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JEF_025494_sm.jpg\" width=\"670\" height=\"449\"\nalt=\"Nikon D200 + Nikkor 17 -55 f\/2.8 @ 52mm &amp;mdash; 1 \/ 125 sec, f\/5.6, ISO 250 &amp;mdash; map &amp; image data Watching Anthony Play -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2007 Jeffrey Eric Francis Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i025494\"\nstyle=\"border:solid 15px black\"\ntitle=\"Fumie watches Anthony play\"\/><\/a><br\/><span class=\"robots-nocontent\" style='color:#BBB; font-size:85%'>Nikon D200 + <span class='nobr'>Nikkor 17<\/span>-55 f\/2.8 @ 52mm &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>125 sec, f\/5.6, ISO 250 &mdash;\n<a class='quiet' style='color:#77B' href=\"\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJEF_025494.jpg\">map &amp; image data<\/a><\/span><br\/><span\nstyle='font-size:175%'>Watching Anthony Play<\/span><\/div>\n\n<p>\n\nI'll continue to be really crushed with work for the next few days, but\nI'll post more pictures from the shrine area, and from the mochi shops,\nover the weekend.....\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday we went to some very old, semi-famous mochi shops in north-west Kyoto, near the Imamiya Shrine. We took the opportunity to walk around the shrine a bit, and in doing so, found a plum (I think) tree just starting to blossom. This was especially surprising because this part of the city is known to be generally colder than the main areas, by a non-trivial amount, so I would have expected it to be later than our area.<\/p> <p>In any case, my first blossom-related post is quite a bit earlier this year than last year (April 8th) or the year [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}