{"id":20382,"date":"2012-11-12T12:43:54","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T19:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/?p=20382"},"modified":"2012-11-12T12:43:54","modified_gmt":"2012-11-12T19:43:54","slug":"fall-in-new-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?p=20382","title":{"rendered":"Fall in New Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #888888;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">5 months flies by fast!\u00a0 But, thankfully, I have 3 more months of extension! \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #888888; font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #888888;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">Since I\u2019ve posted last, we have been settling into fall.\u00a0 Being from Pennsylvania, I know fall.\u00a0 And I know it well.\u00a0 I also know that New Mexico does not have <em>nearly<\/em> as many deciduous trees.\u00a0 So as fall was quickly approaching, I wasn\u2019t expecting much.\u00a0 I was in for a pleasant surprise.\u00a0 In Fort Stanton, which is one of the recreation areas in our field office, there are a few different species of shrub-sized oaks.\u00a0 Cruising through there one day for work, all the different oaks were wonderful bright reds, yellows and the occasional tan.\u00a0 It was beautiful!\u00a0 And not only were the shrubs vibrant, but also the cottonwoods along the rivers, and the grasses!\u00a0 I\u2019ve noticed the grasses shimmer in the right sunlight \u2013 especially Sideoats Grama (<em>Bouteloua curtipendula) <\/em>and Burrograss (<em>Scleropogon brevifolius) <\/em>both having exceptional fall tones. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #888888; font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #888888;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">Best of luck to the other interns who are all finished! <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #888888; font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #888888;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">Jaci<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"color: #888888;\">Roswell, NM<\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5 months flies by fast!\u00a0 But, thankfully, I have 3 more months of extension! \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 Since I\u2019ve posted last, we have been settling into fall.\u00a0 Being from Pennsylvania, I know fall.\u00a0 And I know it well.\u00a0 I also know &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?p=20382\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1750,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20382"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1750"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20382"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20486,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20382\/revisions\/20486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}