{"id":42103,"date":"2016-07-10T16:52:45","date_gmt":"2016-07-10T22:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=42103"},"modified":"2016-07-11T07:31:07","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T13:31:07","slug":"among-the-wild-flax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=42103","title":{"rendered":"Among the Wild Flax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summer \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Park County Fair Moon<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_42105\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42105\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/wild-flax-Reynolds.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-42105\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-42105 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/wild-flax-Reynolds-e1468243856186.jpg\" alt=\"wild flax\" width=\"210\" height=\"253\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42105\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">wild flax<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Conifer is big and diverse. I drove 20\u00a0minutes from home this morning to Reynolds Park, a Jefferson County Open Space Park. It&#8217;s still in Conifer, nestled in a canyon, filled with Ponderosa pines, creeks, forested hills and plenty of montane ecosystem plants.<\/p>\n<p>The Native Plant Master class held there ran\u00a0from 8:30 to 12:30, a long time in the heat. At least for me. By the time the morning was over I was hurting. That arthritic knee, right hip and lower back crying out for surcease. No more plants, please! Lay us\u00a0down, right now. Frustrating because the information in this\u00a0class is germane to our home on Black Mountain Drive.<\/p>\n<p>We found the Harebell, a wild geranium, three different grasses including Timothy and Broomtail, keyed out a Ponderosa and an Aspen and a Rocky Mountain Maple.\u00a0There were two members of the Sunflower family: Rudbeckia-the black eyed daisy and a flower with multiple white petals whose name I can&#8217;t recall. A native bee crawled into a Penstemon, gracilis, getting pollen on its back in the process, nototribic. We visited a wild Flax with delicate blue flowers.<\/p>\n<p>Two more classes yet to go. Right now, I&#8217;m looking forward to the information but not the wandering pedagogy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Park County Fair Moon Conifer is big and diverse. I drove 20\u00a0minutes from home this morning to Reynolds Park, a Jefferson County &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=42103\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Among the Wild Flax<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4314,4312,13,4329],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden","category-jefferson-county","category-mountains-2","category-our-land","category-plants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42103"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42107,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42103\/revisions\/42107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}