{"id":96843,"date":"2020-11-25T20:35:04","date_gmt":"2020-11-26T00:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=96843"},"modified":"2020-11-25T20:35:04","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T00:35:04","slug":"heres-to-a-long-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=96843","title":{"rendered":"here&#8217;s to a long weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-flickr wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2karZXe\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50646392351_ea6c8c58c5_c.jpg\" alt=\"P1013122\" width=\"533\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m always a miser when cutting flowers from my small garden and prefer to enjoy the much longer performance flowers give when they remain in the garden instead of severed for a vase.  But this Thanksgiving seems special, doesn&#8217;t it?   I&#8217;m betting it&#8217;s not just my family that feels profound gratitude for having made it to November 2020.  So I foraged for a small vase of flowers for tomorrow because garden flowers seem especially suitable for outside dining.  Grevillea &#8216;Moonlight,&#8217; Celosia &#8216;Cramer&#8217;s Amazon,&#8217; silver  contributions from Acacia podalyrifolia and Glaucium flavum, which also brings its horned seedheads, tropical chartreuse leaves are Xanthosoma &#8216;Lime Zinger,&#8217; begonia leaves, and a couple tulbaghia blooms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-flickr wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2kaswst\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50646494967_3531428f25_c.jpg\" alt=\"P1013111\" width=\"533\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For the post-feast torpor, I&#8217;d recommend snuggling into the wonderful documentary &#8220;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.birdwatchingdaily.com\/news\/birdwatching\/film-central-park-birders-explores-birdwatching-deeply-human-activity\/\">Birders:  The Central Park Effect<\/a><\/em>.&#8221;  Released in 2012, somehow I missed this lovely paean to birds and the people who see them as astonishing, magical creatures.  Which of course they are, and if you feel the same, this is your tribe.  My already acute envy of Central Park was even more inflamed by this four-season look at Olmstead&#8217;s urban masterpiece and how much joy it gives the people of New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-flickr wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2kasAa8\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50646507417_8a510eeb1f_z.jpg\" alt=\"P1013095\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Have a wonderful feast, whether alone nibbling  a PBJ sandwich or with your carefully selected &#8220;bubble,&#8221; because gratitude is truly what&#8217;s on the menu this year.   Much love, AGO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m always a miser when cutting flowers from my small garden and prefer to enjoy the much longer performance flowers give when they remain in the garden instead of severed for a vase. 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