{"id":1488,"date":"2010-08-06T08:15:16","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T13:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=1488"},"modified":"2011-01-24T18:56:54","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T23:56:54","slug":"wildflower-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2010\/08\/wildflower-beauty\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildflower Beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"

After weeks of not being able to do any walking outside of my house, I’ve been gradually extending my outdoor activity. I’m up to walking twice a day, 1\/2 mile round trip each time. I’m sure I could walk farther if I live on flat land, but I don’t, and those downhills are difficult. (Much harder than uphills.) <\/p>\n

So I’ve really been enjoying being back on my road after my hiatus, and decided that I’d do a Nature’s Garden Journal, since I missed so many weeks of my own garden. Besides, I’ve always loved wildflowers, and what grows along the edges of my road is really beautiful, so yesterday I carried my camera on my walk with me.<\/p>\n

Before I even get to the bottom of my driveway, there’s a stand of goldenrod. In another week or so, old pastures will show the bright yellow goldenrod counterpointed beautifully with deep purple asters.
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Near the goldenrod is a great collection of Joepye weed. I couldn’t stop myself from taking several shots of it in its various phases, all visible on just one day. In addition to being gorgeous, Joepye weed is beelicious — the bees just love it.
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The next flower that called me to shoot it was a knapweed. I like the form of the bud (not visible in this shot), the color, and the interesting petal formation. I am also fond of this shot, with Queen Anne’s lace. Although it doesn’t show up well in this small photo, in a larger version of the same image, I am intrigued by the Queen Anne at the bottom left – the seeds show up in the photo in a way they never have to my eye in real life. I’m going to have to look at it more closely on my walk today.
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Not far from the knapweed is the gorgeous nightshade. I don’t really know if this is the plant of poison-of-old, but I’m not going to taste it to find out!
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Not a flower but a fruit, I was pleased to see a bunch of bitternuts on the road. This means that there will be a nice crop for turkeys to eat.
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When I turned around and focused on the other side of the road, I couldn’t resist the beauty of this thistle.
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I closed my walk with the strength and grace of the lovely sumac.
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Your turn: In addition to being lovely to look at, most of these wildflowers have some interesting properties — medicinal, edible, or other. Me, I just enjoy looking at them. Do you make use of any of their other properties?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After weeks of not being able to do any walking outside of my house, I’ve been gradually extending my outdoor activity. I’m up to walking twice a day, 1\/2 mile round trip each time. I’m sure I could walk farther if I live on flat land, but I don’t, and those downhills are difficult. (Much […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[367,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardening","category-life-as-i-see-it","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1488"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2089,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488\/revisions\/2089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}