{"id":7465,"date":"2013-02-07T03:55:12","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T10:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=7465"},"modified":"2026-03-21T05:20:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T10:20:29","slug":"a-flaming-hibiscus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2013\/02\/07\/a-flaming-hibiscus\/","title":{"rendered":"A Flaming Hibiscus"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"FlameFlame Hibiscus<\/span><\/p>\n

I’m lucky. As a photographer I can look at my images and in my mind travel through time to the memories I built when I created them.<\/p>\n

This flame-colored Hibiscus takes me back to a warm, sunny day in Tampa at the USF Botanical Garden. For awhile when I look at this I can forget the fog building outside my window and the snow on the ground.<\/p>\n

It was a happy day but THIS is a happy day too despite what the weather might hold.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/span><\/a> to see more of my flower, tree, and shrub photos.<\/p>\n

*This was taken with a point and shoot camera, I don’t have the techs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This flame-colored Hibiscus takes me back to a warm, sunny day in Tampa at the USF Botanical Garden, for awhile when I look at this I can forget the fog building outside my window and the snow on the ground. 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