{"id":16646,"date":"2016-03-18T18:17:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-19T01:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=16646"},"modified":"2016-03-18T18:17:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-19T01:17:00","slug":"from-ice-to-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=16646","title":{"rendered":"From ice to flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In a lovely example of a seasonal transition, I saw ice extrusions and subalpine\u00a0buttercups within three metres of each other at an altitude of about 800 metres on a mountainside above Kootenay Lake.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Typically, ice extrusions\u00a0are seen when the daytime temperature is above 0C and the nighttime temperature is below, so this is not a midwinter phenomenon. During daytime, water drains into\u00a0the cavities within a\u00a0porous soil; during nighttime, the freezing water expands forcing\u00a0little columns of ice up through the ground (often capped with dirt). Those\u00a0of us who remember the home delivery of milk to a cold doorstep in the winter are already familiar with the process whereby the cap of the milk bottle was lifted\u00a0atop a column of frozen cream. When I wrote about these <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=12776\">a year ago<\/a>, a commentator noted\u00a0that geologists refer to\u00a0these as ice needles, a name that has a different meaning for meteorologists.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16648\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/iceextrusions160318s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>About three metres away was a crop of a dozen (what I suspect were)\u00a0subalpine\u00a0buttercups (<em>Ranunculus eschscholtzii<\/em>), an early sping\u00a0flower &#8212; lovely.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16647\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/mountainbuttercup160318s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And for fun, I include a picture from the same spot, but looking down towards Kokanee Creek Peninsula. <br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/kokaneecreekpeninsula160308s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16652\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; In a lovely example of a seasonal transition, I saw ice extrusions and subalpine\u00a0buttercups within three metres of each other at an altitude of about 800 metres on a mountainside above Kootenay Lake.\u00a0 Typically, ice extrusions\u00a0are seen when the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=16646\">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":[12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weather","category-wildflowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16646","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=16646"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16656,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16646\/revisions\/16656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}