{"id":37059,"date":"2019-10-10T10:19:10","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T21:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=37059"},"modified":"2019-10-10T10:19:10","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T21:19:10","slug":"spring-is-a-comin-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2019\/10\/10\/spring-is-a-comin-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Is A Comin’ In…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…and that means #DucklingAlert time on the nearby Avon River<\/p>\n

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There’s a certain ‘skitterbug’ action going down<\/p><\/div>\n

It’s also that time of spring for an iris alert in the garden. These irises came from my Mum’s garden. I dug them out before she passed away (after a long illness) and transported them across islands and a stretch of ocean (I’m indulging in poetic license here, it was Cook Strait) before replanting in Christchurch. It’s taken a few years but they’re finally starting to ‘take hold.’<\/p>\n

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They’re always small, btw, rather than having long stems.:) You can also see one of the last of the nearby magnolia stellata flowers fallen to the ground as spring — not unlike the irises — takes hold. I believe the poet, William Carlos Williams<\/a>, the magic of this process in his poem Spring and All<\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n

...It quickens: clarity, outline of leaf<\/em>
\n…the profound change<\/em>
\nhas come upon them: rooted they<\/em>
\ngrip down and begin to awaken<\/em><\/p>\n

The green shoots coming through all around the irises are Michaelmas daisies, which will flower around the autumn equinox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…and that means #DucklingAlert time on the nearby Avon River It’s also that time of spring for an iris alert in the garden. These irises came from my Mum’s garden. I dug them out before she passed away (after a long illness) and transported them across islands and a stretch of ocean (I’m indulging in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funstuff","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37059"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37067,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37059\/revisions\/37067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}