{"id":1072,"date":"2014-03-10T16:25:26","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T23:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/?p=1072"},"modified":"2014-03-10T16:26:18","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T23:26:18","slug":"imagination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/?p=1072","title":{"rendered":"Imagination"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"mussel<\/a>Today might have been the best day ever.\u00a0 If you live in a climate that is boring, I pity you.\u00a0 If you live in a climate that has intolerable extremes, ditto.\u00a0 I like weather.\u00a0 I was raised in Southern California and it\u00a0was dreadfully boring.\u00a0 I wanted snow and hail and odd days with fog and light.<\/p>\n

In the Pacific Northwest, when the sun peers though, it is a splendid gift from Mother Nature.\u00a0 Today was such a day.\u00a0 And so we spent the day outdoors planting trees, shrubs and flowers.\u00a0 We don’t have a game plan for the planting area as yet, but sometimes it just doesn’t matter.\u00a0 You plant.\u00a0 Here’s a real treat – if you don’t like where something is planted here – you dig it up and replant it.\u00a0 No harm, no foul.<\/p>\n

In between planting, there were frogs to be found.\u00a0 I found the first one and thought it was in a precarious spot.\u00a0 So, I moved it to a better area.\u00a0 Later, another frog started croaking in the same area as the first frog.\u00a0 Oh no – had I interrupted a spring liaison?\u00a0 I found frog #2 and\u00a0whisked it away to be with his possible friend.<\/p>\n

This is only interesting to me, because I have always been a bird-feeder kind of person.\u00a0 Well, the bird feeder at this house has\u00a0never been touched.\u00a0 After listening to tales during the weekend’s gardening workshops, I realized that\u00a0our bit of forest needs no help from us.\u00a0 Leave the birds and critters alone.\u00a0 Give them plants for nectar and shelter, but quit with the added mechanical help.<\/p>\n

We have added more heather to the plants we purchased last year.\u00a0 The bumblebees have been swarming over them.\u00a0 Apparently, they need all the help they can get, so adding natural plants is the way to go.\u00a0 Spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today might have been the best day ever.\u00a0 If you live in a climate that is boring, I pity you.\u00a0 If you live in a climate that has intolerable extremes, ditto.\u00a0 I like weather.\u00a0 I was raised in Southern California … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1072"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1075,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions\/1075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}