{"id":397,"date":"2007-10-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-31T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/portfolio\/snow-grass-and-fire-trees\/"},"modified":"2023-12-19T11:21:35","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T03:21:35","slug":"snow-grass-and-fire-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/snow-grass-and-fire-trees.html","title":{"rendered":"Snow, Grass and Fire Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Near the Lower Geyser Basin in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?x=yellowstone_national_park_(wyoming)__national_parks__protected_threatened_and_significant_places__location\">Yellowstone National Park<\/a> is a stand of fire-scorched trees, or &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?ss=fire_tree_yellowstone\">fire trees<\/a>&#8221; as our younger daughter named them during her first visit to the park five years ago. The ground surrounding a section of these trees is often steaming, hinting at the subterranean warmth and runoff from springs on Firehole Lake Drive nearby. Following a snow fall this phenomenon was illustrated nicely with a sharp delineation between cool and hot ground. This is another 16&#215;9 photograph taken with our cool little <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dpreview.com\/news\/0607\/06071904panasoniclx2.asp\">Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX2<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Burned trees in grass meadow in Lower Geyser Basin. Grass o...\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=19789\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Burned trees in grass meadow in Lower Geyser Basin. Grass on the left has hot runoff from nearby thermal springs, keeping it free of snow, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/stock-photo\/burned-trees-grass-meadow-lower-geyser-basin-picture-19789-594005.jpg\" alt=\"Burned trees in grass meadow in Lower Geyser Basin. Grass on the left has hot runoff from nearby thermal springs, keeping it free of snow, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Burned trees in grass meadow in Lower Geyser Basin. Grass on the left has hot runoff from nearby thermal springs, keeping it free of snow.<br \/>\nImage ID: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=19789\">19789<\/a><br \/>\nLocation: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?city=yellowstone_national_park&amp;state=wyoming&amp;country=usa\">Yellowstone National Park<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?state=wyoming&amp;country=usa\">Wyoming<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?country=usa\">USA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Near the Lower Geyser Basin in Yellowstone National Park is a stand of fire-scorched trees, or &#8220;fire trees&#8221; as our younger daughter named them during her first visit to the park five years ago. The ground surrounding a section of these trees is often steaming, hinting at the subterranean warmth&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11554,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,136,137],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-397","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national-parks","8":"category-wyoming","9":"category-yellowstone"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11555,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions\/11555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}