{"id":3170,"date":"2009-10-05T10:15:19","date_gmt":"2009-10-05T14:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/?p=3170"},"modified":"2009-10-05T10:15:19","modified_gmt":"2009-10-05T14:15:19","slug":"where-the-wild-things-are-fall-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/?p=3170","title":{"rendered":"Where the wild things are:  Fall Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a week and half of rain nearly every day, the weekend came in with some beautiful weather, so yesterday, despite being woefully behind on the fall work that needs to be done in the yard, we decided to go and take a closer look at some of view we have from up by the house.  These are Jerusalem Artichokes, a wild growing variety of Helianthus.  I&#8217;ve been admiring them through the rain all week, as we can see about 10 big clumps of them growing along the creek.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/art_1.jpg\" alt=\"art_1\" title=\"art_1\" width=\"600\" height=\"387\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/art_1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/dlynz.com\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/art_1-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>They are edible, though you don&#8217;t want to eat too many of them at one time as they give some people a bit of gastric problem which can make mingling in polite society difficult.  I&#8217;d rather just look at them myself.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/art_2.jpg\" alt=\"art_2\" title=\"art_2\" width=\"600\" height=\"373\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/art_2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/dlynz.com\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/art_2-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>They are about the last wildflower to bloom around here.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/art_3.jpg\" alt=\"art_3\" title=\"art_3\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/art_3.jpg 600w, https:\/\/dlynz.com\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/art_3-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>Sumac is really just a big weed, but I don&#8217;t care.  I love it all year long, but never more than in the fall.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/sum_1.jpg\" alt=\"sum_1\" title=\"sum_1\" width=\"600\" height=\"387\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/sum_1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/dlynz.com\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/sum_1-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>This is everywhere we look right now.  So brilliant that it almost hurts your eyes to look at it.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/sum2.jpg\" alt=\"sum2\" title=\"sum2\" width=\"600\" height=\"349\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/sum2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/dlynz.com\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/sum2-300x174.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>Still a lot of goldenrod around too.  It isn&#8217;t what causes allergies either &#8211; that is more often a plant called ragweed.  I&#8217;m always a sucker for a yellow flower, even if it is a weed.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/gr.jpg\" alt=\"gr\" title=\"gr\" width=\"600\" height=\"408\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/gr.jpg 600w, https:\/\/dlynz.com\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/gr-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>A late stand of Queen Anne&#8217;s lace &#8211; even prettier now that there isn&#8217;t much of it left.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/qal.jpg\" alt=\"qal\" title=\"qal\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/qal.jpg 600w, https:\/\/dlynz.com\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/qal-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>If you stop by for cocktail hour, in addition to fine conversation, lots of attention from Riley and a nice glass of Pinor Noir, you get to look at this.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/hill.jpg\" alt=\"hill\" title=\"hill\" width=\"600\" height=\"364\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3171\" \/>And the best part of fall wild things?  I don&#8217;t have to plant\/move\/thin\/weed\/divide\/deadhead\/trim any of it. Gotta love that!  Hope the world is looking pretty where you are today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a week and half of rain nearly every day, the weekend came in with some beautiful weather, so yesterday, despite being woefully behind on the fall work that needs to be done in the yard, we decided to go &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/?p=3170\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,46],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3170"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3182,"href":"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3170\/revisions\/3182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}