{"id":11578,"date":"2016-04-14T08:09:02","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T14:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/?p=11578"},"modified":"2016-04-14T08:09:36","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T14:09:36","slug":"photo-gallery-one-last-look-possibly-at-fleeting-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/2016\/04\/photo-gallery-one-last-look-possibly-at-fleeting-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo gallery: One last look, possibly, at fleeting spring"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t<div id=\"slides-11578\" class=\"navis-slideshow\">\n\t\t\t<p class=\"slide-nav\">\n\n\t\t\t<a href=\"#\" class=\"prev\"><\/a>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"#\" class=\"next\"><\/a>\n\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t<div class=\"slides_container\"><div id=\"11578-slide1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Spring-Pioneer-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Spring-Pioneer-1-771x468.jpg\" \/><\/a><h6>Ed Kemmick\/Last Best News <a href=\"#\" class=\"slide-permalink\">permalink<\/a><\/h6><p>A lucky dog and his human walk past flowering trees in Pioneer Park on Wednesday. Click on the arrow at top right for more photographs.<\/p><\/div><div id=\"11578-slide2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Community-Center-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Community-Center-1-771x514.jpg\" \/><\/a><h6>Ed Kemmick\/Last Best News <a href=\"#\" class=\"slide-permalink\">permalink<\/a><\/h6><p>Beautiful color, symmetrical tree, Third Avenue North and North 23rd Street.<\/p><\/div><div id=\"11578-slide3\" data-src=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Spring-Camo-hydrant-1-771x514.jpg*771*514\" data-href=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Spring-Camo-hydrant-1.jpg\" \/><h6>Ed Kemmick\/Last Best News <a href=\"#\" class=\"slide-permalink\">permalink<\/a><\/h6><p>Pink shrub with camouflaged fire hydrant, on Agate Avenue in the Heights.<\/p><\/div><div id=\"11578-slide4\" data-src=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Spring-Moss1-1-771x516.jpg*771*516\" data-href=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Spring-Moss1-1.jpg\" \/><h6>Ed Kemmick\/Last Best News <a href=\"#\" class=\"slide-permalink\">permalink<\/a><\/h6><p>At the Moss Mansion, downtown Billings.<\/p><\/div><div id=\"11578-slide5\" data-src=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Spring-Moss2-1-771x478.jpg*771*478\" data-href=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Spring-Moss2-1.jpg\" \/><h6>Ed Kemmick\/Last Best News <a href=\"#\" class=\"slide-permalink\">permalink<\/a><\/h6><p>Also at the Moss Mansion. Couldn't resist.<\/p><\/div><div id=\"11578-slide6\" data-src=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Spring-Clark2-1-771x514.jpg*771*514\" data-href=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Spring-Clark2-1.jpg\" \/><h6>Ed Kemmick\/Last Best News <a href=\"#\" class=\"slide-permalink\">permalink<\/a><\/h6><p>400 block of Clark Avenue.<\/p><\/div><div id=\"11578-slide7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Spring-Clark1-1-771x514.jpg*771*514\" data-href=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Spring-Clark1-1.jpg\" \/><h6>Ed Kemmick\/Last Best News <a href=\"#\" class=\"slide-permalink\">permalink<\/a><\/h6><p>Another scene from the 400 block of Clark.<\/p><\/div><div id=\"11578-slide8\" data-src=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Spring-Rimtop-1-771x430.jpg*771*430\" data-href=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Spring-Rimtop-1.jpg\" \/><h6>Ed Kemmick\/Last Best News <a href=\"#\" class=\"slide-permalink\">permalink<\/a><\/h6><p>From the top of the Rims, flashes of spring in the valley below.<\/p><\/div><div id=\"11578-slide9\" data-src=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Spring-Brayton-1-771x514.jpg*771*514\" data-href=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Spring-Brayton-1.jpg\" \/><h6>Ed Kemmick\/Last Best News <a href=\"#\" class=\"slide-permalink\">permalink<\/a><\/h6><p>On Brayton Avenue, in the shadow of Zimmerman Trail.<\/p><\/div><div id=\"11578-slide10\" data-src=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Spring-St.-Pats-1-771x551.jpg*771*551\" data-href=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Spring-St.-Pats-1.jpg\" \/><h6>Ed Kemmick\/Last Best News <a href=\"#\" class=\"slide-permalink\">permalink<\/a><\/h6><p>St. Patrick's Co-Cathedral, downtown Billings.<\/p><\/div><div id=\"11578-slide11\" data-src=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Spring-Woodland-1-771x518.jpg*771*518\" data-href=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Spring-Woodland-1.jpg\" \/><h6>Ed Kemmick\/Last Best News <a href=\"#\" class=\"slide-permalink\">permalink<\/a><\/h6><p>A light at the end of the tunnel, Woodland Drive.<\/p><\/div><div id=\"11578-slide12\" data-src=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Spring-Tracy-Lofts-1-771x430.jpg*771*430\" data-href=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Spring-Tracy-Lofts-1.jpg\" \/><h6>Ed Kemmick\/Last Best News <a href=\"#\" class=\"slide-permalink\">permalink<\/a><\/h6><p>The Tracy Lofts on Montana Avenue.<\/p><\/div><div id=\"11578-slide13\" data-src=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Spring-Cows-1-771x495.jpg*771*495\" data-href=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Spring-Cows-1.jpg\" \/><h6>Ed Kemmick\/Last Best News <a href=\"#\" class=\"slide-permalink\">permalink<\/a><\/h6><p>Still life with feeding cows, off Lake Elmo Drive, Heights.<\/p><\/div><div id=\"11578-slide14\" data-src=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Spring-McCormick-1-771x514.jpg*771*514\" data-href=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Spring-McCormick-1.jpg\" \/><h6>Ed Kemmick\/Last Best News <a href=\"#\" class=\"slide-permalink\">permalink<\/a><\/h6><p>Montana Avenue, with the McCormick Building in the background.<\/p><\/div><div id=\"11578-slide15\"><a href=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Spring-Mary-Queen-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Spring-Mary-Queen-1-771x523.jpg\" \/><\/a><h6>Ed Kemmick\/Last Best News <a href=\"#\" class=\"slide-permalink\">permalink<\/a><\/h6><p>Mary Queen of Peace Church, South Side.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><script>jQuery( document ).ready( function() { loadSlideshow( 11578, 'https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/2016\/04\/photo-gallery-one-last-look-possibly-at-fleeting-spring\/', 15 ) } );<\/script>\n<p>It was Mrs. Kemmick who directed my attention to the weather forecast Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The way it looked, she said, we were going to have a fairly pleasant morning and early afternoon, followed by rain that might come and go over the next several days.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>And you know what that meant, she said: all those delicate petals that had come to life on all those flowering shrubs and trees were probably going to be gone within several days. All those snow-white flowers, those flashes of purple, violet and pink, all the color on those cherry, crabapple and magnolia trees, all gone.<\/p>\n<p>Ah, transient spring! O, fleeting life! And so on.<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t get that dramatic on you, but I did think I could perform a useful public service by putting together a gallery of photographs before it was too late. We never did get that rain, but we still might, and even a stretch of high wind could\u00a0erase all that color.<\/p>\n<p>So, if you haven&#8217;t been out much lately, this is what you&#8217;ve been missing.\u00a0And in the coming months, long after the flowering season has ended, you can come back and remind yourself how beautiful it was.<\/p>\n<p>We used to have a flowering crabapple tree in front of our house, and a flowering cherry tree, too.<\/p>\n<p>We always said that if we ever sold our house we should try to do so when those trees were in bloom. Well, we did sell it, but not in the blooming season, and the person who bought it soon cut down both trees.<\/p>\n<p>Go figure.<div class=\"well\"><div class=\"dfad dfad_pos_1 dfad_first\" id=\"_ad_652\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/mjhWkW\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/201703_capeair_variable.jpg\" alt=\"CapreAir_Variable\" width=\"510\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18069\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was Mrs. Kemmick who directed my attention to the weather forecast Wednesday morning. The way it looked, she said, we were going to have a fairly pleasant morning and early afternoon, followed by rain that might come and go over the next several days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[747],"tags":[2842,4195,4142,2926,4193,4194,631],"class_list":["post-11578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photo-galleries","tag-mary-queen-of-peace","tag-mccormick-building","tag-moss-mansion","tag-rims","tag-spring","tag-st-patricks-co-cathedral","tag-zimmerman-trail","prominence-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}