{"id":10847,"date":"2017-04-09T22:31:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T05:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/?p=10847"},"modified":"2017-06-15T23:00:33","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T06:00:33","slug":"superbloom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2017\/04\/09\/superbloom\/","title":{"rendered":"Superbloom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two weeks ago I <a href=\"\/journal\/2017\/03\/27\/an-inauspicious-beginning\/\">returned to the Carrizo Plain<\/a> with Audrey to catch the height of this year&#8217;s superbloom.  The flowers did not disappoint.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11257\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11257\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/0907-carrizo-plain-wildflowers.jpg\" alt=\"Wildflowers at the Carrizo Plain National Monument\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11257\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/0907-carrizo-plain-wildflowers.jpg 600w, http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/0907-carrizo-plain-wildflowers-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11257\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Seuss apparently did the decorating.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11258\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11258\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/0915-carrizo-plain-wildflowers.jpg\" alt=\"Wildflowers at the Carrizo Plain National Monument\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11258\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/0915-carrizo-plain-wildflowers.jpg 600w, http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/0915-carrizo-plain-wildflowers-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11258\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">We had to drive up a super-sketchy \u201croad\u201d that consisted of two tracks through knee-high grass in order to get to these poppies. Totally worth it.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11259\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11259\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/0921-carrizo-plain-wildflowers.jpg\" alt=\"Wildflowers at the Carrizo Plain National Monument\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11259\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/0921-carrizo-plain-wildflowers.jpg 600w, http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/0921-carrizo-plain-wildflowers-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11259\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scale: note the people far away in the top right. There were flowers for days.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11260\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11260\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/0935-carrizo-plain-wildflowers.jpg\" alt=\"Wildflowers at the Carrizo Plain National Monument\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11260\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/0935-carrizo-plain-wildflowers.jpg 600w, http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/0935-carrizo-plain-wildflowers-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11260\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From a distance I figured that this massive patch of wildflowers had to be some sort of lavender farm since it seemed inconceivable that there would be acres and acres of solid purple flowers all concentrated in one spot.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two weeks ago I returned to the Carrizo Plain with Audrey to catch the height of this year&#8217;s superbloom. The flowers did not disappoint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[59,30,29],"class_list":["post-10847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-carrizo-plain","tag-photography","tag-recap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10847"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11262,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10847\/revisions\/11262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}