{"id":14181,"date":"2018-04-08T16:08:56","date_gmt":"2018-04-08T21:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=14181"},"modified":"2018-04-10T12:15:32","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T17:15:32","slug":"great-falls-maryland-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=14181","title":{"rendered":"Great Falls, Maryland"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14183\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/img_20180408_151984.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14183\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/img_20180408_151984-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Great Falls, Maryland\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14183\" data-wp-pid=\"14183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/img_20180408_151984-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/img_20180408_151984-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/img_20180408_151984-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/img_20180408_151984-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/img_20180408_151984-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/img_20180408_151984.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14183\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Great Falls, Maryland<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It was cool today (some said cold, but my scale is a little different to some). It was beautiful out, in any case. The sky was a deep blue and it was a perfect day to go to Great Falls and the C&#038;O Canal. We walked out to the overlook, stopping along the way to enjoy some wildflowers in bloom. We saw lots of yellow adder&#8217;s tongue (<em>Erythronium americanum<\/em>, also known as yellow trout lily), although we only saw one or two flowers and they were not completely open yet. We saw some cutleaf toothwort (<em>Cardamine concatenata<\/em>) which I recognized but couldn&#8217;t name without looking up. We saw <em>lots<\/em> of spring beauties (<em>Claytonia virginica<\/em>), varying in color from pure white to fairly deep pink. After returning to the tow path, we found a few areas with lots and lots of Virginia bluebells (<em>Mertensia virginica<\/em>). That was a particular treat and really made it feel more spring-like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was cool today (some said cold, but my scale is a little different to some). It was beautiful out, in any case. The sky was a deep blue and it was a perfect day to go to Great Falls and the C&#038;O Canal. We walked out to the overlook, stopping along the way to &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=14181\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[591,593,300,592,296,174],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14181"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14181"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14184,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14181\/revisions\/14184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}