{"id":1830,"date":"2011-06-06T15:30:05","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T22:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=1830"},"modified":"2011-06-06T15:30:05","modified_gmt":"2011-06-06T22:30:05","slug":"rhododendron-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=1830","title":{"rendered":"Rhododendron Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In late May or early June, many locals slip out onto the West Arm by kayak or boat and ply their way to the rhododendron grove. A Sunday\u2019s stroll through these flower\u2013covered trees is about as refreshing as it gets.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, the flowers had slightly passed their peak, but remained a delight. A few images are below. Pictures from a previous year&#8217;s visit and a note about the origin of the trees can be seen on the Kootenay Lake site under <a href=\"http:\/\/kootenay-lake.ca\/lakeside\/pathways\/rhododendron\/index.html\">Rhododendron grove<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Alas, this year when we were sated and about to leave, we discovered that the area is now posted as private. Sigh&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1832\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/rhododendrum110605cs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 13px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; line-height: 19px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1831\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/rhododendrum110605ds.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1833\" title=\"rhododendrum110605bs\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/rhododendrum110605bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"479\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1834\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/rhododendrum110605aa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In late May or early June, many locals slip out onto the West Arm by kayak or boat and ply their way to the rhododendron grove. A Sunday\u2019s stroll through these flower\u2013covered trees is about as refreshing as it gets. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=1830\">Continue reading <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":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scenes","category-wildflowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830","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=1830"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1839,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830\/revisions\/1839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}