{"id":12584,"date":"2023-06-11T12:55:50","date_gmt":"2023-06-11T19:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/?p=12584"},"modified":"2023-06-11T12:55:51","modified_gmt":"2023-06-11T19:55:51","slug":"beyond-beautiful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/2023\/06\/beyond-beautiful\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond beautiful"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It can be hard to absorb how beautiful it can get around here. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The lupines are in bloom. Fields of them. And the ocean (bay), so peaceful. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/img_6828.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12582\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/img_6828.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/img_6828-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/img_6828-576x1024.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I worked at the community garden today. We have one day &#8211; today &#8211; , maybe two &#8211; tomorrow &#8211; of sunshine, then we go back into a period of clouds and rain. So I had a sunny window of opportunity to plant. I planted sunflowers, calendula, marigolds. And then in the hill mounds, butternut squash, blue hubbard, and pie pumpkin. I don&#8217;t have the best of luck with squash in this plot, so we&#8217;ll see. I added four buckets of goat manure to the soil, maybe that will help.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I like to plant winter squash here because there&#8217;s room for it to run around. I train the vines to go to the right, where I have a second plot with onions in it. They don&#8217;t seem to mind terribly if squash vines come through. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The garden looks like piles of dirt and straw now, but in my imagination it looks lush green, productive, and flowery! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/img_6827.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12583\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/img_6827.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/img_6827-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/img_6827-576x1024.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It can be hard to absorb how beautiful it can get around here. The lupines are in bloom. Fields of them. And the ocean (bay), so peaceful. I worked at the community garden today.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,336],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-garden","category-landscape"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12584"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12586,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12584\/revisions\/12586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}