{"id":548,"date":"2009-02-15T04:03:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-15T04:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=548"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:13:46","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:13:46","slug":"winter-weary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=548","title":{"rendered":"Winter-weary"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Winter has lost its newness and its luster and I find myself alert for the small voices that signal change…<\/p>\n

<\/span>\"\"<\/span><\/a>Without any snow cover there’s little to contrast the lack of color in the landscape if we don’t look closely…<\/p>\n

<\/span>\"\"<\/span><\/a>The change now, in mid-February, is in increasing daylight as the sun swings north again…<\/p>\n

<\/span>\"\"<\/span><\/a>That light and the sogginess it brings underfoot, the extra brightness it adds to shrunken viburnum berries…<\/p>\n

<\/span>\"\"<\/span><\/a>And the fragile texture of butterfly wings that it reveals among the tatters of last summer’s hydrangea…<\/p>\n

All are among the small voices that signal hope for change. Have you gone looking, yet, for Spring?<\/p>\n

Mostly I didn’t find much, but there are snowdrops in the neighbor’s garden and the promise of hellebores… can peepers be long off? Cardinals are singing some at first light and the redtails perching closer together… maybe it’s closer than it feels.
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Winter has lost its newness and its luster and I find myself alert for the small voices that signal change… Without any snow cover there’s little to contrast the lack of color in the landscape if we don’t look closely… The change now, in mid-February, is in increasing daylight as the sun swings north again… … Continue reading Winter-weary<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,3,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}