{"id":539,"date":"2011-05-19T11:28:49","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T15:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/?p=539"},"modified":"2011-05-19T11:28:49","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T15:28:49","slug":"rainy-grey-spring-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/2011\/05\/rainy-grey-spring-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainy, Grey, Spring Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last few days, the weather has been cold, grey, rainy, with a fierce and unrelenting wind. From the window, the lawn seems mysterious and darkly romantic, much like a Daphne du Maurier novel.\u00a0 I can squint a little and almost see myself wandering the foggy moors, lovelorn and pondering dark secrets.<\/p>\n<p>Inside, it&#8217;s warm, dry, comforting.  The kind of day where a steaming cup of tea is the perfect treat. I&#8217;m quite the opposite of lovelorn and I&#8217;m certainly not wandering the house in dark mystery.\u00a0 However,\u00a0 I have been looking at the gardens through the rain splattered glass and I&#8217;m impatient to start planting. Before the rains began, I was digging and clearing and waiting for the frost date to pass &#8211; here in northern Indiana, our last frost date is estimated between May 13 and May 24.<\/p>\n<p>One year, the weather seemed warm enough and I planted my garden before the last frost date. The days and nights had been warm and pleasant and I was sure that my plants would be safe.  You guessed it: all the plants got zapped with a frost.  Every last one of them. When the frost warning came, I had even covered everything with newspapers, thinking that would be enough to protect them.  It wasn&#8217;t. The next morning they were all just shriveled black sprigs.  I learned patience from that experience and now I wait until after the last frost date, no matter how anxious I am to get the garden started.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-549\" href=\"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/?attachment_id=549\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-549\" style=\"border: 0pt none; margin: 8px;\" title=\"Lilacs\" src=\"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/MP9004483621-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Lilacs in bloom\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I can see from the window that the lilacs are in full bloom.  I may even go out in the rain and gather an armful; they will fill the house with such a lovely fragrance and the colors of lavender and purple.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The quiet peace of patience and the scent of fresh lilacs.  Yes, there is a bright side even on cold, grey days.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last few days, the weather has been cold, grey, rainy, with a fierce and unrelenting wind. From the window, the lawn seems mysterious and darkly romantic, much like a Daphne du Maurier novel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,52,73],"tags":[190,191,189,188,187],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":556,"href":"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions\/556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}