{"id":4923,"date":"2024-07-19T17:24:53","date_gmt":"2024-07-19T21:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/?p=4923"},"modified":"2024-07-19T17:24:56","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T21:24:56","slug":"with-silver-bells-and-cockleshells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/?p=4923","title":{"rendered":"with silver bells and cockleshells&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This morning dawns in the garden<br>absolutely beautiful<br>it\u2019s been a long week<br>rather more eventful than one would<br>wish<br>but also one that comes gently<br>to a<br>perfectly peaceful<br>Friday<br>in the loveliness of my<br>happiest<br>place<br><br>this morning in the garden<br>I\u2019m wondering<br>why<br>one would ever wish<br>to be anywhere else<br>you know, the way we do<br>the dream home, the dream location<br>the dream country, continent&#8230;  planet..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>which for me of course, is almost always<br>further away<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>from<br>people<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(forgetting perhaps, a certain state of<br>loneliness<br>incurred)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>as I walk a much familiar, well-worn path<br>to the back corner<br>sidle past magenta phlox<br>tipped down low by a pummeling rain<br>today, under blue sky and radiant sun<br>I feel the most nourishing embrace<br>of every wild and wonderful thing<br>that grows here<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>it\u2019s quiet here, so<br>there\u2019s that<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>most conversations being held are<br>with the birds, the bees, the flowers of course,<br>the fish, as well as apologies to the occasional spider<br>when I have inadvertently broken a guy-line<br>and the chipmunks, who constantly steal in<br>to see if I may have left any treats<br>the toads are just a little less visible these hot days<br>well that, and<br>the constant bombardment of curious paws<br>and snuffling snout<br>crashing around<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>shortly after sitting down with coffee,<br>a hummingbird comes in<br>just<br>above my head, for something sweet<br>while I am stood, enjoying the warm sun on the back of my neck<br>a gorgeous brown bi-winged dragonfly lands<br>on my foot<br>and later as I come to sit by the small pond<br>I am joined by two<br>Carolina Wrens<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>for a few minutes the male cardinal and I<br>speak the same language<br>while five and twenty blackbirds<br>(well really just five, that phrase sort of,<br>rolled off the tongue)<br>splash about in the birdbath<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>really, it\u2019s just a Friday<br>but,<br>everything in the garden today<br>feels quite astonishing<br><br>and I read somewhere that brown, when it comes to dragonflies<br>is believed to bring nurturing and healing<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>well then,<br>here I am, absorbing light<br>in the gentlest of places<br><br>cause that\u2019s the kind of thing<br>that suits me<br><br>just fine \u2665<br><br><em>and you&#8230;  I hope you are well and surrounded<br>by love xx<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning dawns in the gardenabsolutely beautifulit\u2019s been a long weekrather more eventful than one wouldwishbut also one that comes gentlyto aperfectly peacefulFridayin the loveliness of myhappiestplace this morning in the gardenI\u2019m wonderingwhyone would ever wishto be anywhere elseyou know,&hellip; <br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/?p=4923\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[689,124,632,1133,446,195,250,74],"class_list":["post-4923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-begoodtoyou","tag-birdsandthebees","tag-fridayfeels","tag-inmyjulygarden","tag-inthiswritersgarden","tag-livingmygratitude","tag-measaflower","tag-toyouthisday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4923"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4928,"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4923\/revisions\/4928"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}