{"id":573897921,"date":"2025-04-08T18:17:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T22:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573897921"},"modified":"2025-05-02T02:20:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T06:20:20","slug":"spring-showed-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2025\/04\/08\/spring-showed-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring showed up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last week or so spring has sprung here, where the heavy land and the green sands meet. It takes too long to arrive, spring, but it does linger a nice long while. And it positively shows off when it wants to. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/apr25\/apr11.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an interesting idea, seasons having moods. Nature has her charms and her fury, why couldn&#8217;t there also be moods? And why can&#8217;t they all be as harmonious as this?<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/apr25\/apr12.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Of course, there is one category of drawbacks involved with spring and summer.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/apr25\/apr13.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>In an attempt to keep my knees liking me, and my enthusiasm for pulling these weeds higher than the weeds themselves, this year I am purchasing a rolling stool. Sit and scoot and don&#8217;t bend over. We&#8217;ll give that a try. Even if it only works on the driveway  and not the stones out back, it&#8217;ll be worth it, because I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll find other uses for it.<\/p>\n<p>You can have too many weeds, but you can never have too many flowers, or too many seats that roll.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, it might be light around here for the next few days or more. Playing catch-up and get-ahead simultaneously is time consuming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last week or so spring has sprung here, where the heavy land and the green sands meet. It takes too long to arrive, spring, but it does linger a nice long while. And it positively shows off when it wants to. It&#8217;s an interesting idea, seasons having moods. Nature has her charms and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573897921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo","category-tuesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573897921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573897921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573897921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573897922,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573897921\/revisions\/573897922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573897921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573897921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573897921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}