{"id":4227,"date":"2018-06-25T17:40:12","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T21:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/?p=4227"},"modified":"2018-06-27T21:29:43","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T01:29:43","slug":"coreopsis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/?p=4227","title":{"rendered":"Coreopsis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a long time, I\u2019ve had a love affair with local wild flowers. In a variety of colors and sizes, they need to be hearty to survive in this sometimes harsh place. I can\u2019t pick a favorite one, but enjoy them all.<\/p>\n<p>In Summer, a bright yellow flower that keeps coming back is coreopsis. Self-sowing, it drops seeds for the following year, and exists mostly on higher ground and ridges.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4228\" src=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/1.jpg 600w, http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/1-400x265.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here in the town of Waves, I don\u2019t see them as much as I used to. Where there are now subdivisions of beach houses, there were once open fields blanketed with bright flowers, .<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4229\" src=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/2.jpg 600w, http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/2-400x254.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Subdivisions at Sea Isle Hills and Bold Dune would eventually be built where this old wooden boat died.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/3-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4231\" src=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/3-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"787\" srcset=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/3-1.jpg 500w, http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/3-1-254x400.jpg 254w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4232\" src=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/4.jpg 600w, http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/4-400x245.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 1977, the land behind Miss Alethia&#8217;s house was thick with gold.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/5-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4234\" src=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/5-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/5-1.jpg 600w, http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/5-1-400x265.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photographed in 1975, an island homestead in Waves is gone now, but thankfully the coreopsis still comes back.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a long time, I\u2019ve had a love affair with local wild flowers. In a variety of colors and sizes, they need to be hearty to survive in this sometimes harsh place. I can\u2019t pick a favorite one, but enjoy them all. In Summer, a bright yellow flower that keeps coming back is coreopsis. Self-sowing, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-outer-banks","category-vegetation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4227"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4252,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4227\/revisions\/4252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}