{"id":1106,"date":"2012-03-26T07:42:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T14:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/delightfilledart.wordpress.com\/?p=1106"},"modified":"2016-01-25T22:51:15","modified_gmt":"2016-01-26T06:51:15","slug":"spring-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/?p=1106","title":{"rendered":"Spring hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/mg_7264.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1107 size-medium alignright\" title=\"copyright Nancy Hildebrand\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/mg_7264-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/mg_7264-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/mg_7264.jpg 601w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/mg_7323.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1111 size-medium alignright\" title=\"copyright Nancy Hildebrand\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/mg_7323-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/mg_7323-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/mg_7323.jpg 601w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>The sun came out, and so did we. I love the luscious greens, layer upon layer of verdant mosses and sword ferns and lichen. One of the first things that struck me about west coast forests, when I hiked at Buntzen Lake with my best friend in 1998, was the beards of moss, draped over branches.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/mg_7282.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1110 size-medium\" title=\"copyright Nancy Hildebrand\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/mg_7282-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/mg_7282-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/mg_7282.jpg 601w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I took these photos this weekend with my family at Cultus Lake. My children are tough little walkers, making the uphill hike to see the &#8220;Seven Sisters&#8221; fir trees without much of a complaint. The forest air is incredibly clean and still, our footfall barely noticeable on the cushioned red earth. Only the occasional cadence of birdsong, the whisper of the treetops and the soul-flushing surge of a spring stream.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/mg_7276.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1109 size-medium\" title=\"copyright Nancy Hildebrand\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/mg_7276-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/mg_7276-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/mg_7276.jpg 601w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>I am under no delusion&#8230;I know I cannot capture this beauty with paint&#8230;but the camera will do! I love that these turned out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/mg_7268.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1108 size-medium\" title=\"copyright Nancy Hildebrand\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/mg_7268-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/mg_7268-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/mg_7268.jpg 601w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sun came out, and so did we. I love the luscious greens, layer upon layer of verdant mosses and sword ferns and lichen. One of the first things that struck me about west coast forests, when I hiked at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/?p=1106\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35,36,37],"tags":[216,341,520,900],"class_list":["post-1106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nature-2","category-parenting-2","category-photography-2","tag-british-columbia","tag-cultus-lake","tag-hiking","tag-spring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}