{"id":5269,"date":"2013-04-07T11:52:44","date_gmt":"2013-04-07T16:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=5269"},"modified":"2013-04-07T11:52:44","modified_gmt":"2013-04-07T16:52:44","slug":"spring-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=5269","title":{"rendered":"Spring?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/spring-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/spring-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"spring-1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5270\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Click on photos for high-resolution version. Butterfly in the bluets.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There is life at the abbey, but a never-ending winter and a calendar clogged with a heavy burden of anti-fracking political activities has kept everyone down. As for winter, blame a persistent disturbance in the jet stream, which sent arctic air too far south and warm air too far north. Greenland was melting while it was snowing in the southern U.S. The pattern seems to be breaking. There is still time, I think, for April (as the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay said) to come babbling down the hill like an idiot, strewing flowers. Shake a leg, April.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/spring-12.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/spring-12.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"spring-12\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5270\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>A week ago, this is what we had.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/spring-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/spring-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"spring-1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5270\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Peach blossoms in the orchard<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/spring-3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/spring-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"spring-3\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5270\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Blossoms on a wild pear tree, illegitimate offspring of the neighboring Bradford pears<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/spring-4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/spring-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"spring-4\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5270\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>The Bradford pears that spread into the wild, thanks to the birds<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/spring-5.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/spring-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"spring-5\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5270\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>A new gate to keep the chickens in the orchard and out of the garden<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/spring-6.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/spring-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"spring-6\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5270\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>The last of the daffodils<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/spring-7.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/spring-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"spring-7\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5270\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Bloom on a deciduous magnolia, newly planted<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/spring-8.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/spring-8.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"spring-8\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5270\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Young leaves on a red maple<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/spring-9.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/spring-9.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"spring-9\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5270\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Helen, restless with spring fever<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/spring-10.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/spring-10.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"spring-10\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5270\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>One of the three new spring chickens, still in protective custody. More photos to come. This generation will be named for 1950s starlets.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/spring-11.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/spring-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"spring-11\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5270\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Pine trees bloom too.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/spring-13.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/spring-13.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"spring-13\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5270\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Ken Ilgunas is back and will be here at least for the next few months. He has, I think, been soaking up solitude here at the cloistered abbey, resting up from throwing himself at the world-out-there in his last adventure. He promises to post to his blog soon. We have some spring projects planned, of course. And Ken will have a busy time soon around <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Walden-Wheels-Open-Road-Freedom\/dp\/054402883X\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1365353350&#038;sr=8-1&#038;keywords=ken+ilgunas\">the release of his book<\/a> on May 14.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click on photos for high-resolution version. Butterfly in the bluets. There is life at the abbey, but a never-ending winter and a calendar clogged with a heavy burden of anti-fracking political activities has kept everyone down. As for winter, blame a persistent disturbance in the jet stream, which sent arctic air too far south and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=5269\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Spring?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainable-living","category-the-land"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}