{"id":712277,"date":"2009-07-28T20:22:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-28T20:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/0319df9.netsolhost.com\/blog\/?p=712277"},"modified":"2009-07-28T20:22:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-28T20:22:00","slug":"mt-rainier-nature-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/mt-rainier-nature-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Mt. Rainier Nature Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"

We made a very short trip to Mt. Rainier just because we were sure that we would get to see some wildflowers. <\/p>\n

\"Mt.<\/a><\/p>\n

The one picture of the mountain that we managed to take. This picture is thanks to my daughter. I forgot to take pictures of Mt. Rainier, because I was so busy studying flowers. We identified several; here are a few pictures.<\/p>\n

\"Mt.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Wenatchee<\/a><\/p>\n

Giant Red or Orange Paintbrush (or several other names) Castilleja miniata<\/p>\n

<\/em>\"Subalpine<\/a><\/p>\n

Subalpine Lupine Lupinus articus subsp. subalpinus<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Mt.<\/a><\/p>\n

More wildflowers.<\/p>\n

The main meadow at Paradise that I thought would be covered with flowers was not. All of these shots were taken roadside. I’m kind of hoping that I can sneak back there again and see if the meadow blossoms one of these days. We’ll see, I do have to get ready to start back to school one of these days too!<\/p>\n

One of the interesting things that we learned when working on identifying the flowers in our pictures is that Paintbrushes are mostly parasites. Because of this, it is very difficult to transplant them or to plant them from their seeds. They latch onto roots of other plants and live off of them. I’ve always loved Paintbrushes, but I think being a parasite is rude; so now I don’t know what to think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We made a very short trip to Mt. Rainier just because we were sure that we would get to see some wildflowers. The one picture of the mountain that we managed to take. This picture is thanks to my daughter. I forgot to take pictures of Mt. Rainier, because I was so busy studying flowers. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712277"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}