{"id":1991,"date":"2011-05-11T16:29:52","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T21:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/?p=1991"},"modified":"2011-05-11T16:39:43","modified_gmt":"2011-05-11T21:39:43","slug":"pops-of-purple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/?p=1991","title":{"rendered":"Pops of Purple"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em>Author: \u00a0Autumn<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3>I just found some lovely spring photos in my archives that show shades of purple and lavendar at their best.<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1992\" href=\"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/2011\/05\/11\/pops-of-purple\/dscf0562\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1992\" src=\"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSCF0562-430x323.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSCF0562-430x323.jpg 430w, http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSCF0562-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">This was taken in a little village in France during a bicycle ride.<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1993\" href=\"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/2011\/05\/11\/pops-of-purple\/dscf0564\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1993\" src=\"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSCF0564-430x323.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSCF0564-430x323.jpg 430w, http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSCF0564-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">The irises are in the same village.<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1994\" href=\"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/2011\/05\/11\/pops-of-purple\/dscf0441\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1994\" src=\"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSCF0441-430x323.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSCF0441-430x323.jpg 430w, http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSCF0441-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">I took this photo of these violas in a garden in Paris. \u00a0I have a fondness for them because my grandmother&#8217;s name was Viola, and I was named after her.<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1998\" href=\"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/2011\/05\/11\/pops-of-purple\/dscf0439\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1998\" src=\"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSCF0439-430x323.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSCF0439-430x323.jpg 430w, http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSCF0439-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">These pansies were in a Parisian garden.<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2000\" href=\"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/2011\/05\/11\/pops-of-purple\/dscf0575-2\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2000\" src=\"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSCF05751-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"538\" height=\"717\" srcset=\"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSCF05751-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSCF05751-242x323.jpg 242w, http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSCF05751.jpg 1944w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 538px) 100vw, 538px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">I don&#8217;t know what kind of flowers these are, but they, too, were in a French village.<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2001\" href=\"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/2011\/05\/11\/pops-of-purple\/dscf0567\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2001\" src=\"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSCF0567-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"538\" height=\"717\" srcset=\"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSCF0567-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSCF0567-242x323.jpg 242w, http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSCF0567.jpg 1944w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 538px) 100vw, 538px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">Here is another wisteria bush in France. \u00a0Did you guess that we did that bicycle trip in the month of May?<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2017\" href=\"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/2011\/05\/11\/pops-of-purple\/dsc00944\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2017\" src=\"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSC00944.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSC00944.jpg 640w, http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSC00944-430x323.jpg 430w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">I was lucky enough to visit the New York Botanical Garden during a Dale Chihuly exhibit. \u00a0These glass balls and purple glass spheres were his works of art.<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2018\" href=\"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/2011\/05\/11\/pops-of-purple\/botanical-garden-nyc-088\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2018\" src=\"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Botanical-Garden-NYC-088.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"432\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Botanical-Garden-NYC-088.jpg 480w, http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Botanical-Garden-NYC-088-242x323.jpg 242w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">This flowering pot was on our patio in the house we just sold. \u00a0You can see how close we were to the pond.<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2013\" href=\"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/2011\/05\/11\/pops-of-purple\/dscf0113\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2013\" src=\"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSCF0113-1024x730.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"433\" height=\"310\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">I took this photo of the wisteria at the local arboretum.<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2016\" href=\"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/2011\/05\/11\/pops-of-purple\/dsc00945\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2016\" src=\"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSC00945.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSC00945.jpg 640w, http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSC00945-430x323.jpg 430w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">This is another Chihuly creation at the NYC Botanical Garden. \u00a0Isn&#8217;t it just beautiful? \u00a0It&#8217;s hard to imagine that everything in the boat is made of glass.<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left\">Jordan is still doing some traveling for business this week, but we were lucky enough to meet up in Cincinnati on Monday for a trip to Ikea. \u00a0She will be writing a post about some things we saw that we liked. \u00a0And this Friday she has a great chicken salad for you.<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left\">Take care.<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author: \u00a0Autumn I just found some lovely spring photos in my archives that show shades of purple and lavendar at their best. This was taken in a little village in France during a bicycle ride. The irises are in the same village. I took this photo of these violas in a garden in Paris. \u00a0I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1991"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2031,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991\/revisions\/2031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}