{"id":13243,"date":"2011-03-13T00:01:49","date_gmt":"2011-03-13T08:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/?p=13243"},"modified":"2011-03-13T00:05:35","modified_gmt":"2011-03-13T08:05:35","slug":"three-hellebores-and-a-summer-snowflake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/13243","title":{"rendered":"Three Hellebores and a Summer Snowflake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every spring, when I visit Filoli, I try to take pictures of the hellebores and the summer snowflakes .\u00a0 The photos have never satisfied me .\u00a0 This spring, I&#8217;m happier with the photos than I was in previous years and, since Lent started last Wednesday, what is more appropriate than a picture of a Lenten Rose?\u00c2\u00a0 In the hellebores, what appear to be petals are actually sepals; the petals have been transformed into cuplike structures called nectaries which hold nectar.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Helleborus-orientalis.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13334\" title=\"Lenten Rose (Helleborus orientalis)\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Helleborus-orientalis.jpg\" alt=\"Lenten Rose (Helleborus orientalis)\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Helleborus-orientalis.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Helleborus-orientalis-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Lenten Rose (<em>Helleborus orientalis<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">SOURCE:\u00a0 Lenten Rose (<em>Helleborus orientalis<\/em>) (Woodside, San Mateo County, California); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 23 February 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Helleborus-argutifolius.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13335\" title=\"Corsican Hellebore (Helleborus argutifolius)\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Helleborus-argutifolius.jpg\" alt=\"Corsican Hellebore (Helleborus argutifolius)\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Helleborus-argutifolius.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Helleborus-argutifolius-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Corsican Hellebore (<em>Helleborus argutifolius<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">SOURCE:\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Corsican Hellebore (<em>Helleborus argutifolius<\/em>) (Woodside, San Mateo County, California); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 23 February 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Helleborus-x-hybridus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13336\" title=\"Hellborus x hybridus ?\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Helleborus-x-hybridus.jpg\" alt=\"Hellborus x hybridus ?\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Helleborus-x-hybridus.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Helleborus-x-hybridus-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Hellborus x hybridus<\/em> ?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">SOURCE:\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<em>Hellborus x hybridus <\/em>? (Woodside, San Mateo County, California); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 23 February 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Leucojum-aestivum.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13337\" title=\"Summer Snowflake (Leucojum aestivum)\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Leucojum-aestivum.jpg\" alt=\"Summer Snowflake (Leucojum aestivum)\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Leucojum-aestivum.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Leucojum-aestivum-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Summer Snowflake (<em>Leucojum aestivum<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">SOURCE:\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Summer Snowflake (<em>Leucojum aestivum<\/em>) (Woodside, San Mateo County, California); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 23 February 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2011 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every spring, when I visit Filoli, I try to take pictures of the hellebores and the summer snowflakes .\u00a0 The photos have never satisfied me .\u00a0 This spring, I&#8217;m happier with the photos than I was in previous years and, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/13243\">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":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[185],"class_list":["post-13243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-journal","tag-flowers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-3rB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13338,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13243\/revisions\/13338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}