{"id":974,"date":"2017-04-15T00:01:06","date_gmt":"2017-04-15T05:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nitochsa.com\/?p=974"},"modified":"2017-04-15T00:01:06","modified_gmt":"2017-04-15T05:01:06","slug":"bluff-spring-fen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nitochsa.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/15\/bluff-spring-fen\/","title":{"rendered":"Bluff Spring Fen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 15th, 2017 ~ (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nitochsaphotography.com\/Family\/2017\/Bluff-Spring-Fen\/\">Full Album Here<\/a>)\u00a0Went on a photography meetup to Bluff Spring Fen. It&#8217;s a preserve that the only way to get entry to it, is through a cemetery. The following excerpt is taken from the meetup site: &#8220;Surrounded by industrial neighbors in the westernmost part of Cook County\u2014and once a dumping site and gravel quarry itself\u2014160-acre Bluff Spring Fen is named for its rare fen, a type of wetland fed by mineral-rich springs. The spring water stays a constant 50 degrees, so streams flow year-round, supporting an unusual assortment of plants and animals adapted to these steady, alkaline conditions. The fen itself is surrounded by a patchwork of wetlands, prairies, savannas and woodlands, including several kames, gravelly hills left by the glaciers. With the only entrance to this hide-away through the winding roads of Bluff City Cemetery, tranquility is as plentiful as the birds. This Illinois Nature Preserve is part of a larger 225-acre area of green space managed by the City of Elgin, the Forest Preserve District of Cook County and the Forest Preserve District of Kane County.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Please enjoy the small slideshow below, or preferably, go to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nitochsaphotography.com\/Family\/2017\/Bluff-Spring-Fen\/\">full album here<\/a>, to see the photos in higher resolution and in its their entirety.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nitochsaphotography.com\/frame\/slideshow?key=VgZ9SJ&amp;autoStart=1&amp;captions=0&amp;navigation=0&amp;playButton=0&amp;randomize=0&amp;speed=3&amp;transition=fade&amp;transitionSpeed=2\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 15th, 2017 ~ (Full Album Here)\u00a0Went on a photography meetup to Bluff Spring Fen. It&#8217;s a preserve that the only way to get entry&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10],"tags":[13,21,63],"class_list":["post-974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-outings","category-photo-walk","tag-13","tag-bluff-spring-fen","tag-meetup"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nitochsa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nitochsa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nitochsa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nitochsa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nitochsa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nitochsa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nitochsa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nitochsa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nitochsa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nitochsa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}