{"id":3369,"date":"2012-03-09T10:54:07","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T08:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/?p=3369"},"modified":"2012-03-09T10:54:07","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T08:54:07","slug":"a-spring-ritual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/?p=3369","title":{"rendered":"A spring ritual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/14-e1331282923272.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3370 aligncenter\" title=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/14-e1331282923272.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/14-e1331282923272.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/14-e1331282923272-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I finally found what I&#8217;d been looking for for weeks to no avail at the supermarket.<\/p>\n<p>Daffodils. Plain old daffodils.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/22.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3371\" title=\"2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/22-e1331282981923.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/22-e1331282981923.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/22-e1331282981923-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Every year from January on I look out for them. This year they are terribly late in showing up, maybe because of the very cold weather we&#8217;ve had in Europe this winter. We&#8217;ve had tulips in the shops for weeks, but no daffs. Last week there were some fancy frilly variations on daffs at a fancy, frilly price. No thank you. I want the real (and inexpensive) McCoy.<\/p>\n<p>What I want are the plain and simple ordinary variety. The sort that may manage to flower in my garden in a month or six weeks time (they are currently 3 inches high &#8211; it will be a while!).<\/p>\n<p>I want them closed up tight in their little green sheathes.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/3.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3372\" title=\"3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/3.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/3-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And I want to watch the wonder of them bursting out.<\/p>\n<p>Sunshine on a stem. A picture of spring, when we most need it!<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/4.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3373\" title=\"4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/4-e1331283047485.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/4-e1331283047485.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/4-e1331283047485-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The ritual is the same every year. Something so simple that never fails to lift my spirits!<\/p>\n<p>Helen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I finally found what I&#8217;d been looking for for weeks to no avail at the supermarket. Daffodils. Plain old daffodils. Every year from January on I look out for them. This year they are terribly late in showing up, maybe because of the very cold weather we&#8217;ve had in Europe this winter. We&#8217;ve had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQtrc-Sl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3369"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3369"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3375,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3369\/revisions\/3375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}