{"id":857,"date":"2008-03-07T04:58:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-07T04:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=857"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:28:50","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:28:50","slug":"simple-pleasures-from-the-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=857","title":{"rendered":"Simple pleasures from the garden"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>It’s fun now to begin thinking ahead to some of the littlest pleasures the garden will bring; the hard part is finding the patience to wait. I’m not the most patient of people; I sigh and wiggle and roll my eyes through the wait in the grocery store line, lay on the horn too often when the person ahead of me at a red light daydreams past the green and generally expect instant results once I’ve put my mind to something.<\/p>\n

A garden requires a lot of patience; there’s soil to be tended and seeds to be coddled and months in between the intention and the reward. Winter and its end, I guess, is a time to respect the process.<\/p>\n

At any rate, I thought today about some of the things I look forward to in the coming months. I was sitting outside the office around 11 this morning, in a spot sheltered from the wind and the weak sun was shining on my face and with my eyes closed, I could imagine it June, almost. Imagination or memory, I’m not sure which, brought me this:<\/p>\n

~the flash of a hummingbird investigating the blooms of red salvia<\/p>\n

~the taste of a sun-warmed tomato or a perfectly ripe strawberry<\/p>\n

~the decision to give up on the pretty fingernails (or the ridiculous gloves) and dig recklessly in the dirt with bare hands<\/p>\n

~the feel of walking barefoot through wet grass<\/p>\n

~the calls of osprey overhead as they commute from the river to their cell tower nest by the train station<\/p>\n

~the delight in burying my nose in the lavender patch heedless of the bees<\/p>\n

~the tickles from a ladybug on my arm<\/p>\n

~the hot shower that soothes tired muscles after a day spent digging and transplanting<\/p>\n

~the surprise on a friend’s face at the tiniest of vases filled with lily-of-the-valley or an enormous bouquet of peonies and catmint from my garden<\/p>\n

Simple pleasures… simple things to look forward to. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s fun now to begin thinking ahead to some of the littlest pleasures the garden will bring; the hard part is finding the patience to wait. I’m not the most patient of people; I sigh and wiggle and roll my eyes through the wait in the grocery store line, lay on the horn too often … Continue reading Simple pleasures from the garden<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,3,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857"}],"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=857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}