{"id":11910,"date":"2014-10-22T10:07:07","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T17:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=11910"},"modified":"2014-10-23T09:45:25","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T16:45:25","slug":"alpine-larch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=11910","title":{"rendered":"Larch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Tis the season of fall colours and my favourite is the larch, a deciduous conifer.<\/p>\n<p>When this posting was made, I believed the trees shown here were alpine larches. Doug Thorburn, a man who knows his trees, assures me that, no, they are western larches. The title and text has been corrected to show this.<\/p>\n<p>The colours of the western larch spill down\u00a0the mountain side.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11911\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/larch141020as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When trees are viewed\u00a0across the valley, contrast and colour is muted.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11911\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/larch141020bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The western larch is brilliant when seen close by.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11911\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/larch141020cs2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &#8216;Tis the season of fall colours and my favourite is the larch, a deciduous conifer. When this posting was made, I believed the trees shown here were alpine larches. Doug Thorburn, a man who knows his trees, assures me &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=11910\">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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scenes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11910","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=11910"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11924,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11910\/revisions\/11924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}