{"id":1707,"date":"2014-04-13T08:32:01","date_gmt":"2014-04-13T15:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nsrider.com\/blog\/?p=1707"},"modified":"2014-04-13T08:32:01","modified_gmt":"2014-04-13T15:32:01","slug":"photos-of-the-day-saturday-april-11-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/2014\/04\/13\/photos-of-the-day-saturday-april-11-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos of the day, Saturday April 11, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

I went for a different hike today because the tram was closed. \u00a0I had hiked up to about 8,800 feet and gone close to 5 miles when I came across a two hikers who had stopped to photograph a flower. \u00a0I was glad to see that they had stopped because I might have overlooked it. \u00a0It is a Pulsatilla otherwise known as a pasqueflower. \u00a0Since it blooms around the time of Easter, it has the name pasque which means: of Easter.<\/p>\n

\"pulsatilla1\"<\/p>\n

Larger \u00a0 images will be over in the Journal when I post all of the images there.<\/p>\n

The two men also told me about a flowering cactus that they had seen just a short ways up the trail. \u00a0I had almost decided to turn around because my boots were bothering me but the idea of finding a flowering cactus so high up the mountain so early in the season intrigued me. \u00a0I had seen the first claret cactus in bloom down around 6,500 feet and I could not imagine another cactus blooming so high on the mountain.<\/p>\n

\"mountain-ball-cactus\"<\/p>\n

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Commonly known at a mountain ball cactus, its scientific name is Pediocactus simpsonii. \u00a0It is one of the most cold hardy species which it would have to be, seeing as I found it in a very narrow range on the south peak approach above 9,300 feet. It grows very low to the ground and is not of significant note except when it is blooming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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