{"id":530,"date":"2009-02-16T20:58:53","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T20:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/?p=530"},"modified":"2009-02-16T21:00:27","modified_gmt":"2009-02-16T21:00:27","slug":"first-signs-of-spring-in-dublin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/16\/first-signs-of-spring-in-dublin\/","title":{"rendered":"First Signs of Spring in Dublin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday was gorgeous: warm and partly sunny. Today was almost as nice. It feels like spring!<\/p>\n<p>In some places, robins are a sign of spring. <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/magazine\/4767522.stm\">In others<\/a>, the heavens are the guide.<\/p>\n<p>Here in Dublin, we know it&#8217;s spring when the flocks of tour buses take to the streets. <!--more-->Through winter, we see the odd tour bus wheeling around our city.<a href=\"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/apps\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/crw_7283.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/apps\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/crw_7283-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"Spring Tour Buses\" title=\"Spring Tour Buses\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-531\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/apps\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/crw_7283-300x240.jpg 300w, http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/apps\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/crw_7283-1024x819.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/apps\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/crw_7283.jpg 1801w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> Their open-top seats are bare of passengers, and they always look like they missed their species&#8217;s annual migration.<\/p>\n<p>As of this weekend, the buses appeared in full plumage, with all kinds of people adorning their backs. Today, painters began touching up the pubs and Georgian houses of the city centre. In the complex ecology of the city, it&#8217;s not clear whether the two are linked by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cambridge2000.com\/memos\/correlation.html\">correlation or causation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There are other signs of spring, of course. The days are <a href=\"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/10\/more-and-more-daylight\/\">getting noticeably longer<\/a> (at last). And flower bulbs are blooming everywhere.<\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/apps\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/crw_7281.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/apps\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/crw_7281-300x221.jpg\" alt=\"Bulbs 1\" title=\"Bulbs 1\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-535\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/apps\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/crw_7281-300x221.jpg 300w, http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/apps\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/crw_7281-1023x754.jpg 1023w, http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/apps\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/crw_7281.jpg 1674w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/apps\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/crw_7279.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/apps\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/crw_7279.jpg\" alt=\"St Stephens Green\" title=\"St Stephens Green\" width=\"500\" height=\"299\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-534\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/apps\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/crw_7279.jpg 500w, http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/apps\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/crw_7279-300x179.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/apps\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/crw_7278.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/apps\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/crw_7278-260x300.jpg\" alt=\"Bulbs 2\" title=\"Bulbs 2\" width=\"260\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-533\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/apps\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/crw_7278-260x300.jpg 260w, http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/apps\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/crw_7278-888x1024.jpg 888w, http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/apps\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/crw_7278.jpg 1056w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/apps\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/crw_7277.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/apps\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/crw_7277.jpg\" alt=\"Bulbs 3\" title=\"Bulbs 3\" width=\"424\" height=\"804\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-532\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/apps\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/crw_7277.jpg 424w, http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/apps\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/crw_7277-158x300.jpg 158w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 424px) 100vw, 424px\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday was gorgeous: warm and partly sunny. Today was almost as nice. It feels like spring! In some places, robins are a sign of spring. In others, the heavens are the guide. Here in Dublin, we know it&#8217;s spring when the flocks of tour buses take to the streets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,7],"tags":[443,446,760,444,759,447,445],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":538,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions\/538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}