{"id":597,"date":"2009-07-22T03:35:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T03:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=597"},"modified":"2009-07-22T03:35:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-22T03:35:00","slug":"our-little-bit-of-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=597","title":{"rendered":"Our Little Bit Of Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Thank You Lord For This Dirt!<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/SmaMPpfliLI\/AAAAAAAAErU\/PAhJnUherHQ\/s1600-h\/DSC00911.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/SmaMPpfliLI\/AAAAAAAAErU\/PAhJnUherHQ\/s400\/DSC00911.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361126606895417522\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>The kids followed me around tonight as I fussed with my gardens.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">At first, when we moved here, all I saw was the size of our yard&#8230; kinda small&#8230; now I feel like I keep finding little treasures.  <a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/SmaMQIsQhYI\/AAAAAAAAErc\/6cvZ7ntNdvs\/s1600-h\/DSC00847b.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/SmaMQIsQhYI\/AAAAAAAAErc\/6cvZ7ntNdvs\/s400\/DSC00847b.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361126615270065538\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>The side gate with the steps up to it is so adorable.  It leads to my treasured alley garden.  Our neighborhood has a habit of turning all the bits of grass in the alley into garden and my yard is no exception.  There are perennials down the one alley side.  I love this garden&#8230; perhaps the best&#8230; It is a bit wild and I refuse to tame it.  This garden is in a spot meant to be forgotten.  An alley is usual an ugly place&#8230;  but someone took the time to spreed some seeds and plant some bulbs and allowed beauty to grow.<a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/SmaMQ_6m4JI\/AAAAAAAAErk\/xliMJ477d2c\/s1600-h\/DSC00867b.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/SmaMQ_6m4JI\/AAAAAAAAErk\/xliMJ477d2c\/s400\/DSC00867b.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361126630094200978\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>I have always been a girl who loves the outdoors and never felt I had the opportunities in past yards&#8230; My hands love to dig deep into the dirt, petting my flowers and encouraging them to grow with water&#8230; ironically I found a bit of earth just right for that need in the big city.  Me!  A farm girl!  Becoming content where Christ has lead her!  In the CITY!<\/p>\n<p>The hymn &#8216;For the Beauty of the Earth&#8217; comes to mind!   I will have to look it up and see if I remember the tune:)<\/div>\n<p>TTFN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank You Lord For This Dirt!The kids followed me around tonight as I fussed with my gardens. At first, when we moved here, all I saw was the size of our yard&#8230; kinda small&#8230; now I feel like I keep finding little treasures. The side gate with the steps up to it is so adorable. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,5,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}