{"id":6531,"date":"2012-10-18T21:03:43","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T04:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=6531"},"modified":"2012-10-31T19:06:41","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T02:06:41","slug":"berries-in-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=6531","title":{"rendered":"Berries in October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A casual walk around the\u00a0neighbourhood today revealed many berries\u00a0vying\u00a0for the attention of animals. While these berries help sustain the birds and mammals through the winter, from the perspective of the plant, the animals are merely devices for distributing their seeds widely. Here are six I saw.<\/p>\n<p>Elderberry<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6535\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/elderberry121018s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mountain ash<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6534\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/mountainash121018s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Snowberry<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6533\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/snowberry121018s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Red-osier dogwood<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6537\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/redosierdogwood121018s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Climbing nightshade (also known as poisonberry)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6536\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/climbingnightshade121018s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Rose hips (wild rose)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6532\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/rosehips121018s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A casual walk around the\u00a0neighbourhood today revealed many berries\u00a0vying\u00a0for the attention of animals. While these berries help sustain the birds and mammals through the winter, from the perspective of the plant, the animals are merely devices for distributing their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=6531\">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":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wildflowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6531","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=6531"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6544,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6531\/revisions\/6544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}