{"id":14095,"date":"2012-04-30T19:25:25","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T01:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=14095"},"modified":"2012-04-30T19:26:12","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T01:26:12","slug":"rhythm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=14095","title":{"rendered":"Rhythm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Walpurgisnacht \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Beltane Moon<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/1000P1020979.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-14096 alignright\" title=\"1000P1020979\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/1000P1020979.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"392\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/1000P1020979.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/1000P1020979-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 392px) 100vw, 392px\" \/><\/a>As our northern European friends threw the wood on the bonfires and stripped off their clothes, I planted 100 green onions, 6 asparagus crowns and two rosemary plants. \u00a0Tomorrow morning I&#8217;ll dig up the potato bed and toss in some composted manure.<\/p>\n<p>In this time between spring and mid-fall my life has a rhythm dictated in part by the weather. \u00a0Today I checked the bees and planted because this morning&#8217;s paper predicted thunderstorms tomorrow. \u00a0Now they predict afternoon which leaves some morning time available for digging potato beds.<\/p>\n<p>When it rains and storms, I&#8217;ll do Latin and read. \u00a0As the summer progresses, I will move <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/1000colornegativeP1020974.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-14097\" title=\"1000colornegativeP1020974\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/1000colornegativeP1020974.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/1000colornegativeP1020974.jpg 639w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/1000colornegativeP1020974-217x300.jpg 217w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/a>my outside work earlier and earlier in the day to avoid the heat and the direct rays of the sun. \u00a0I have a delicate Celtic skin that burns easily. \u00a0Kate has a Norwegian cover that laughs at the sun. Except for the heat part.<\/p>\n<p>Who knows? \u00a0I might throw some chard and carrots in the soil tomorrow, too. \u00a0We&#8217;ll see what the weather says.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walpurgisnacht \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Beltane Moon As our northern European friends threw the wood on the bonfires and stripped off their clothes, I planted 100 green onions, 6 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=14095\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rhythm<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,17,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden","category-great-wheel","category-holidays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14095"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14099,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14095\/revisions\/14099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}