{"id":238,"date":"2008-10-08T19:13:10","date_gmt":"2008-10-09T00:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=238"},"modified":"2008-10-08T19:13:10","modified_gmt":"2008-10-09T00:13:10","slug":"autumn-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=238","title":{"rendered":"Autumn Gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is what I rose to early this morning.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos\/sunrise20081008.jpg\" alt=\"sunrise\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My sofa faces the east-looking livingroom window. I watched the clouds change colors and positions, and finally fade, accompanied by the crunch of my breakfast cereal.<\/p>\n<p>It occurred to me earlier this week that I&#8217;m wildly excited by the first flowers of spring, and overwhelmed by the lush growth of summer, but that I don&#8217;t talk much about the quieter plants of autumn. Yesterday was the first hard frost of the season, and the sensitive fern would have curled up, if only it hadn&#8217;t turned brown and shriveled up during the August drought.<\/p>\n<p>The autumn crocus is hiding in the ground cover.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos\/crocus20081008.jpg\" alt=\"autumn crocus\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The honesty supervises from a taller stem. (<i>Lunaria<\/i>, what a wonderful name.)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos\/honesty20081008.jpg\" alt=\"honesty\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A few confused roses wonder what happened to the warmth.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos\/rose20081008.jpg\" alt=\"rose\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The sedums flourish in the autumn rains, and will persist for a while yet.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos\/sedum20081008.jpg\" alt=\"sedum\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At least, it looks like a sedum to me, but I&#8217;m no succulent expert. Anyone know what that is?<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow, SOAR, and the beginning of a five-day weekend. Hooray!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is what I rose to early this morning. My sofa faces the east-looking livingroom window. I watched the clouds change colors and positions, and finally fade, accompanied by the crunch of my breakfast cereal. It occurred to me earlier this week that I&#8217;m wildly excited by the first flowers of spring, and overwhelmed by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden","category-signs-of-autumn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}