{"id":4219,"date":"2014-03-20T11:34:32","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T17:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kristinepaulsenphotography.com\/blog\/?p=4219"},"modified":"2016-02-17T17:29:40","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T00:29:40","slug":"loving-the-lilacs-happy-first-day-of-spring-missoula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kristinepaulsenphotography.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/20\/loving-the-lilacs-happy-first-day-of-spring-missoula\/","title":{"rendered":"Loving the Lilacs &#8211; {Happy First Day of Spring, Missoula!}"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love spring. Every sweet ounce of it. There&#8217;s just something so amazing and exhilarating about how the world transforms from browns and grays to color, color, color! (Have I mentioned just how much I love color?)<\/p>\n<p>Some of my favorite spring things (in no particular order):<\/p>\n<p>Fuzzy baby green leaves ::: warm sun\u00a0::: the smell of mud\u00a0::: birdsong\u00a0::: smiling faces\u00a0::: dark earth\u00a0::: buds!\u00a0::: blue skies\u00a0::: bicycling\u00a0::: grilling\u00a0::: transformation of the landscape\u00a0::: gardening\u00a0::: pussy willows\u00a0::: sweet little baby animals\u00a0::: getting muddy\u00a0::: t-shirt weather\u00a0::: the promise of summer&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>I could go on and on, but I&#8217;ll leave it at that for now.<\/p>\n<p>So, happy spring, everybody!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kristinepaulsenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/2014-03-20-Missoula-Montana-Photographer_0001_text.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4220\" alt=\"Loving the Lilacs - Happy first day of spring, in Missoula, Montana! - Photos by Kristine Paulsen Photography\" src=\"http:\/\/kristinepaulsenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/2014-03-20-Missoula-Montana-Photographer_0001_text.jpg\" width=\"915\" height=\"712\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kristinepaulsenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/2014-03-20-Missoula-Montana-Photographer_0001_text.jpg 915w, https:\/\/www.kristinepaulsenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/2014-03-20-Missoula-Montana-Photographer_0001_text-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kristinepaulsenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/2014-03-20-Missoula-Montana-Photographer_0001_text-60x47.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 915px) 100vw, 915px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the docket: weddings and portraits!<\/p>\n<p>Cheers,<\/p>\n<p>-Kristine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love spring. Every sweet ounce of it. There&#8217;s just something so amazing and exhilarating about how the world transforms from browns and grays to color, color, color! (Have I mentioned just how much I love color?) Some of my favorite spring things (in no particular order): Fuzzy baby green leaves ::: warm sun\u00a0::: the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kristinepaulsenphotography.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/20\/loving-the-lilacs-happy-first-day-of-spring-missoula\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":4220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[672,677,119],"tags":[574,388,27,137,138,129,92,125,126,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-4219","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-photos","8":"category-nature","9":"category-personal","10":"tag-first-day-of-spring","11":"tag-lilacs","12":"tag-missoula","13":"tag-missoula-photographer","14":"tag-missoula-photography","15":"tag-missoula-wedding-photographer","16":"tag-montana","17":"tag-montana-photographer","18":"tag-montana-photography","19":"tag-spring","20":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kristinepaulsenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kristinepaulsenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kristinepaulsenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kristinepaulsenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kristinepaulsenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kristinepaulsenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4221,"href":"https:\/\/www.kristinepaulsenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4219\/revisions\/4221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kristinepaulsenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kristinepaulsenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kristinepaulsenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kristinepaulsenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}