{"id":4776,"date":"2024-09-11T12:42:42","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T16:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/?p=4776"},"modified":"2024-09-11T12:42:43","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T16:42:43","slug":"a-little-bit-of-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/11\/a-little-bit-of-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"A Little Bit of Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"
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These photos are from a few months ago when I was still recovering from foot surgery. I was going a bit stir-crazy and my husband suggested we drive down to a nearby park where I could sit in the shade with my camera and he could take a little walk. It was an inspired idea. It was so lovely to be outside. We brought a chair, snacks, drinks, books (of course), and my camera and I hobbled over to the little pond. There was a lot to watch on such a beautiful summer day though I was continually frustrated because the goldfinches refused to alight on any bushes within camera range. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had completely forgotten about these photos until I was downloading photos from another excursion for a post that will come out next week. It was nice to be reminded of this quiet, peaceful afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The photos really aren’t anything special since my foot still didn’t allow me to walk much so I simply sat in my chair and photographed anything that came within range. I do think all the birds, bees, fish, and assorted other creatures warned each other to stay away because they all kept flittering and splashing around just too far away. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A little bit of quiet, a little bit of peace, and a little bit of nature are good for the soul. Sometimes we simply need time to sit and observe the little things around us. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These photos are from a few months ago when I was still recovering from foot surgery. I was going a bit stir-crazy and my husband suggested we drive down to a nearby park where I could sit in the shade with my camera and he could take a little walk. It was an inspired idea. It was so lovely to be outside. We brought a chair, snacks, drinks, books (of course), and my camera and I hobbled over to the little pond. There was a lot to watch on such a beautiful summer day though I was continually frustrated because the goldfinches refused to alight on any bushes within camera range. I had completely forgotten about these photos until I was downloading photos from another excursion for a post that will come out next week. It was nice to be reminded of this quiet, peaceful afternoon. The photos really aren’t anything special since my foot still didn’t allow me to walk much so I simply sat in my chair and photographed anything that came within range. I do think all the birds, bees, fish, and assorted other creatures warned each other to stay away because they all kept flittering and splashing around just too far away. A little bit of quiet, a little bit of peace, and a little bit of nature are good for the soul. Sometimes we simply need time to sit and observe the little things around us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nature"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4784,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4776\/revisions\/4784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}