{"id":7192,"date":"2012-03-31T22:00:31","date_gmt":"2012-04-01T05:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/?p=7192"},"modified":"2012-03-31T22:00:31","modified_gmt":"2012-04-01T05:00:31","slug":"in-my-rain-battered-garden-nothing-is-forever-not-even-those-poppies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/in-my-rain-battered-garden-nothing-is-forever-not-even-those-poppies\/","title":{"rendered":"In My Rain-Battered Garden — Nothing Is Forever, Not Even Those Poppies"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"camellia
A camellia — one of the dozens that hit the pavement during the rain.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Barbara Falconer Newhall<\/em><\/p>\n

Jerome, that famously abstemious fourth- and fifth-century scholar<\/a> and saint,\u00a0is said to have kept a human skull on his desk to remind him of his mortality.<\/p>\n

Those of us with gardens don’t need a skull. We’ve got stuff dying on us every day.<\/p>\n

\"wind
The wind poppies — beaten down by rain today. Will they revive tomorrow with a little sun?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Last week I had\u00a0pansies, wind poppies, camellias and star magnolias\u00a0strutting their stuff in my sunny front yard. Today a heavy rain\u00a0blasted through\u00a0our canyon,\u00a0and last week’s\u00a0hopefuls were pounded back into the ground by\u00a0the weight of all that water.<\/p>\n

The elegant wind poppies\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0whose pictures I\u00a0posted last week? They’re\u00a0face down on a rock.<\/p>\n

Photos by Barbara Falconer Newhall<\/em><\/p>\n

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\"White
Pansies — last week so proud and starchy, this week disheveled.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Raindrops
I took these pictures in the rain. Good thing I didn’t wait for sun. Within hours, the rain and the raindrops plopped on these leaves were gone. Photo by Barbara Falconer Newhall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Blue
I mucked around in the soil beneath this blue beauty, but I couldn’t find the Annie’s Annuals ID stick. Anybody know what this is? Don’t be fooled by the strawberry leaves. Photo by Barbara Falconer Newhall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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St. Jerome kept a human skull on his desk to remind him of his mortality. We gardeners don’t need a skull . We’ve got stuff dying on us every day. Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13],"tags":[34,188,711,88,32,712,713],"class_list":["post-7192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-case-of-the-human-condition","category-my-rocky-spiritual-journey","tag-dont-miss","tag-dying","tag-month-of-march","tag-nature","tag-photography","tag-rain","tag-st-jerome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}