{"id":11909,"date":"2020-07-08T17:50:05","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T21:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/?p=11909"},"modified":"2020-07-08T18:05:10","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T22:05:10","slug":"inspiration-for-a-quilt-how-john-parsons-discovered-the-beauty-of-water-shields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/en\/inspiration-for-a-quilt-how-john-parsons-discovered-the-beauty-of-water-shields\/11909","title":{"rendered":"Inspiration for a Quilt. How John Parsons discovered the beauty of Water Shields."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Te beautiful Water-Shields (also called Dollar Bonnets) on Black lake continue to inspire John Parsons. Fittingly, he is this year&#8217;s designer of the famous Dunany Quilt which\u00a0 you will all be able to see along with some of his other works, at the Dunany Country Club on August 1.<\/p>\n<p>Have a look at\u00a0 this relaxing 8.51 minute new video which he and Jennifer recently put together.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fxbxI85UQJI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Water Shield\u2019s real name is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.labunix.uqam.ca\/~fg\/MyFlora\/Cabombaceae\/brasenia.e.shtml\"><strong>Brasenia schreberi<\/strong>.<\/a> It is native to North America. Its long leaf stalks reach all the way to the bottom where they attach to a long creeping root that is anchored in the mud.<\/p>\n<p>It is quite common in Laurentian lakes. A 2016-17 survey of aquatic plants in 46 lakes which included <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/fr\/environnement\/plantes-au-lac-clair\"><strong>Clear<\/strong><\/a> and Curran found that it was the 2nd most common aquatic plant in the lakes of Argenteuil that were surveyed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Te beautiful Water-Shields (also called Dollar Bonnets) on Black lake continue to inspire John Parsons. Fittingly, he is this year&#8217;s designer of the famous Dunany Quilt which\u00a0 you will all be able to see along with some of his other&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-association"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11909"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11922,"href":"https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11909\/revisions\/11922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}