{"id":939,"date":"2012-05-13T11:48:55","date_gmt":"2012-05-13T17:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maxcarmichael.com\/blog\/?p=939"},"modified":"2020-07-01T15:07:41","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T21:07:41","slug":"spring-2012-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maxcarmichael.com\/blog\/?p=939","title":{"rendered":"Spring 2012: Flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Several people remarked that this year’s spring bloom was below average due to drought, but I suspect that we were simply in the desert at the wrong time, in between the early bloom of annuals and the later flowering of perennials. Nevertheless, I spent my last day photographing what flowers there were, and I think they’re pretty impressive. What do you think?<\/p>\n

\"IMG_3537\" <\/a> <\/div> <\/div>
\"IMG_3536\" <\/a> <\/div>
\"Fremont <\/a>
Fremont phacelia, Phacelia fremontii <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"IMG_3531\" <\/a> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Desert <\/a>
Desert willow, Chilopsis linearis <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Fremont <\/a>
Fremont phacelia, Phacelia fremontii <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"IMG_3520\" <\/a> <\/div>
\"Desert <\/a>
Desert rock nettle, Eucnide urens <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"IMG_3513\" <\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Creosote <\/a>
Creosote bush, Larrea tridentata <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Buckhorn <\/a>
Buckhorn cholla, Cylindropuntia acanthocarpa <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"IMG_3506\" <\/a> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Mohave <\/a>
Mohave sage, Salvia mohavensis <\/div> <\/div>
\"IMG_3499\" <\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"IMG_3438\" <\/a> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Desert <\/a>
Desert lavender, Hyptis emoryi <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Several people remarked that this year’s spring bloom was below average due to drought, but I suspect that we were simply in the desert at the wrong time, in between the early bloom of annuals and the later flowering of perennials. Nevertheless, I spent my last day photographing what flowers there were, and I think […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,85,50,90,83,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2012-trips","category-mojave-desert","category-nature","category-plants","category-regions","category-road-trips"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/maxcarmichael.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_3435.jpg?fit=800%2C600&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxcarmichael.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxcarmichael.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxcarmichael.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxcarmichael.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxcarmichael.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=939"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/maxcarmichael.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":994,"href":"https:\/\/maxcarmichael.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions\/994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxcarmichael.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxcarmichael.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxcarmichael.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxcarmichael.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}