{"id":981,"date":"2014-05-18T08:16:25","date_gmt":"2014-05-18T12:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/?p=981"},"modified":"2014-05-18T20:39:35","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T00:39:35","slug":"white-oak-sinks-phlox-extravaganza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/?p=981","title":{"rendered":"White Oak Sinks Phlox Extravaganza"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is what we came for.\u00a0 FLOWERS!\u00a0 This is White Oak Sinks, a hollow requiring a modest 2-mile hike from the main road.\u00a0 It is a small basic surrounded by steep hills.\u00a0 One side of this area has an incredible waterfall that literally disappears into the ground (see this LINK<\/span><\/a><\/span> from a previous visit), and on the other end is a bat cave.\u00a0 But the true treasure of this basin is the carpeting of flowers in the April\/May time frame.\u00a0 Our timing was perfect this year, and we ran across several yearly visitors who said this year was better than most recent years.\u00a0 Carl and I loved this area so much that we hiked in two days in a row.<\/p>\n

The small purple flowers here are Phlox.\u00a0 Yellow Trillium also sprinkle through the basin, as well as other more obscure varieties like Columbine.<\/p>\n

I’m including two of my favorite perspectives below, but I’m on the fence as to which I prefer.\u00a0 Which do you like best and why?<\/p>\n

I’ve included pics of Emily, Evan, and Carl …. each in their “element”!<\/p>\n

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Phlox, White Oak Sinks @ GSMNP<\/p><\/div>\n

5D MkII, 24-70L f\/2.8, 24mm, 1\/2 sec. @ f\/9, ISO100<\/p>\n

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Phlox 2 – White Oak Sinks @ GSMNP<\/p><\/div>\n

5D MkII, 24-70L f\/2.8, 24mm, 1\/2 sec. @ f\/9, ISO100<\/p>\n

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Emily @ White Oak Sinks<\/p><\/div>\n

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Evan @ White Oak Sinks<\/p><\/div>\n

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Carl @ White Oak Sinks<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is what we came for.\u00a0 FLOWERS!\u00a0 This is White Oak Sinks, a hollow requiring a modest 2-mile hike from the main road.\u00a0 It is a small basic surrounded by steep hills.\u00a0 One side of this area has an incredible waterfall that literally disappears into the ground (see this LINK from a previous visit), and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,5,10,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=981"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1002,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions\/1002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}