{"id":1882,"date":"2012-04-04T14:36:31","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T20:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/?p=1882"},"modified":"2012-04-04T19:28:53","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T01:28:53","slug":"birch-trees-spring-snow-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/2012\/04\/04\/birch-trees-spring-snow-storm\/","title":{"rendered":"Birch Trees In a Spring Snow Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got the chance to head out to Chickakoo Lake a couple weeks ago during a big spring snow storm. There was very little snow around at the beginning of the day, but by the end it was a few inches thick (I think Environment Canada said 10cm). This made for wonderful photo conditions and horrible driving conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Birch (Paper birch around here &#8212; Betula papyrifera) trees always catch my attention. They can be so colorful or almost pure white, but they always have great contrast &#8212; light trunks and dark branches. They&#8217;re a lot less common than poplars around Edmonton, and often a forest will have a birch tree or two in it, but mainly consists of more common trees. At Chickakoo Lake the situation is almost turned around. There are still a lot of poplars around, but the birch trees outnumber them.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got the chance to head out to Chickakoo Lake a couple weeks ago during a big spring snow storm. There was very little snow around at the beginning of the day, but by the end it was a few inches thick (I think Environment Canada said 10cm). This made for wonderful photo conditions and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[729,740],"tags":[1038,2233,1036,997,2232,2234,2235,2229,1927,2231,2230,2227,2228],"class_list":["post-1882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forest-2","category-winter-2","tag-betula-papyrifera","tag-birch-tree","tag-birch-trees","tag-chickakoo-lake","tag-common-trees","tag-dark-branches","tag-great-contrast","tag-horrible-driving-conditions","tag-paper-birch","tag-snow-storm","tag-spring-snow","tag-spring-snow-storm","tag-wonderful-photo-conditions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1882"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1888,"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1882\/revisions\/1888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}