{"id":1768,"date":"2012-06-23T16:04:37","date_gmt":"2012-06-23T20:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/?p=1768"},"modified":"2012-06-23T16:04:37","modified_gmt":"2012-06-23T20:04:37","slug":"youve-got-to-find","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/?p=1768","title":{"rendered":"You’ve Got To Find…."},"content":{"rendered":"

…the right kind of garden to grow in.<\/p>\n

Since I’ve been remiss in my daily posts, I thought I’d double up today.<\/p>\n

Also taken at the Botanical Gardens, Norfolk, VA, there are three … statues tending their garden.<\/p>\n

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Each season, these statues look different. When I was there shooting the rose gardens, I encountered them for the first time. I must say that in order to keep all the plants at bay must take a LOT of effort.<\/p>\n

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I’ve not asked the back story to the statues, but I find them interesting. Almost … oh, almost eastern European, Slavic in their interpretations of the workers.<\/p>\n

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So, as I return to the Botanical Gardens over the next couple of months, we’ll keep an eye on these guys, and see if they’re doing their job, or just half-stepping. LOL.<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/trg-jo.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

Silver Blue, who remembers the last statue being drenched by a sprinkler (which made taking the photo interesting, to say the least). Guess even THEY have an intolerance to heat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…the right kind of garden to grow in. Since I’ve been remiss in my daily posts, I thought I’d double up today. Also taken at the Botanical Gardens, Norfolk, VA, there are three … statues tending their garden. Each season, these statues look different. When I was there shooting the rose gardens, I encountered them […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[288,109,611,443,612],"class_list":["post-1768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-canon","tag-metal","tag-norfolk-botanical-gardens","tag-rebel-t3i","tag-statues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1768"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1773,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768\/revisions\/1773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}