{"id":11174,"date":"2014-07-24T07:08:58","date_gmt":"2014-07-24T14:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=11174"},"modified":"2014-07-31T14:17:57","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T21:17:57","slug":"local-nature-tasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=11174","title":{"rendered":"Local Nature Tasting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This posting is shamelessly promotional.<\/p>\n<p>At 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, August 5<sup>th<\/sup>, I shall give a presentation at the Visitors&#8217; Centre of Kokanee Creek Park (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.env.gov.bc.ca\/bcparks\/explore\/parkpgs\/kokanee_crk\/kokanee_cr.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">BC Parks&#8217; map<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.ca\/maps\/place\/49%C2%B036'10.8%22N+117%C2%B007'28.9%22W\/@49.6029997,-117.1246944,2245m\/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x0\" target=\"_blank\">Google&#8217;s map<\/a>). Part of a\u00a0weekly series, Science in the Park, my offering is entitled<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Local Nature Tasting<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It will be a naturalist&#8217;s version of a wine tasting.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Often for a wine tasting, a theme is chosen and participants\u00a0are invited to make new distinctions among subtly different varieties. As my tastes run to observing\u00a0local nature, I have chosen themes from among my own pictures. Some themes feature colourful bears, dancing devils, perplexing bows, and, ta-da, local ogopogoes. Within each\u00a0theme, assorted images encourage savoury distinctions; following each theme, a palate cleanser clears the way for the next. The local constraint is easy as most of my pictures were taken within or near\u00a0the Park.<\/p>\n<p>The title slide shows Trumpeter Swans at Kokanee Creek Park.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11178\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/naturetastingtitleslide.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; This posting is shamelessly promotional. At 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, August 5th, I shall give a presentation at the Visitors&#8217; Centre of Kokanee Creek Park (BC Parks&#8217; map, Google&#8217;s map). Part of a\u00a0weekly series, Science in the Park, my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=11174\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11174"}],"version-history":[{"count":53,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11293,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11174\/revisions\/11293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}