{"id":960,"date":"2015-07-11T12:24:13","date_gmt":"2015-07-11T21:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flytippings.com.php53-12.ord1-1.websitetestlink.com\/?p=960"},"modified":"2015-07-11T12:42:51","modified_gmt":"2015-07-11T22:12:51","slug":"wildflowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/?p=960","title":{"rendered":"Wildflowers"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I was a little kid I remember looking at an ‘Arizona Highways’ magazine and being fascinated by the pictures of wildflowers growing along the roadsides. \u00a0I was amazed that flowers would grow, without anyone planting them or tending to them. \u00a0Our backyard\/baseball field was pounded into dirt, with a few scrawny flowers growing along the edges.<\/p>\n

I took these pictures this afternoon as Miss P and I were out for a stroll.<\/p>\n

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This plant had flowers ranging in color from deepest purple to lilac.<\/p>\n

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Purple and yellows predominate.<\/p>\n

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Which really lets the Painted Daisies stand out.<\/p>\n

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Milkweed is a favorite flower of butterflies, and it’s a lovely pink and white.<\/p>\n

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And Queen Anne’s Lace is a nice contrast to the green of the native grasses.<\/p>\n

My Mom loved flowers. \u00a0 I was talking to her once about how beautiful they were, and she asked me to send her some pictures. \u00a0 So I documented every different wildflower I saw in one summer, and there are a lot of different ones. \u00a0 I discovered that Colorado has highways that are just as beautiful as the ones in Arizona.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I was a little kid I remember looking at an ‘Arizona Highways’ magazine and being fascinated by the pictures of wildflowers growing along the roadsides. \u00a0I was amazed that flowers would grow, without anyone planting them or tending to them. \u00a0Our backyard\/baseball field was pounded into dirt, with a few scrawny flowers growing along … Continue reading Wildflowers<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ephemera"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=960"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":971,"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions\/971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}