{"id":42175,"date":"2024-09-09T00:01:41","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T07:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/?p=42175"},"modified":"2026-06-05T10:05:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T10:05:42","slug":"let-me-tell-you-about-my-daisies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/let-me-tell-you-about-my-daisies\/","title":{"rendered":"Let Me Tell You About My Daisies — And My Ankles"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Let me tell you about my daisies. The petals are fading, but those seeds? Fat and brown, they’re going places. Photo by Barbara Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I spent some time in the side yard a couple of weeks ago and I got a good look at my daisies.<\/p>\n

Fresh and sassy the week before, the daisy petals had shriveled up when I wasn’t looking.<\/p>\n

My daisies look a lot like my ankles. I was drying my feet off after a shower the other day and noticed there were wrinkles on my ankles.<\/p>\n

I’m not kidding. Wrinkles. On my ankles.<\/p>\n

That’s it. That’s all I know for sure today. My daisies are doing what daisies do. And so are my ankles.<\/p>\n

Let me tell you about my daisies — the ones my grandmother embroidered on pillowcases and gave to me for my birthday. Read about that at “Time to Crack Open That Hope Chest and Live a Little.”<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

If you’d rather spend time with living things in their full mature splendor, go to “I Can’t Take My Eyes Off Those Flowers — From the Mighty Rose to the Humble Daisy”<\/a>\u00a0 and be treated to pompons, anemones, billy balls and more.<\/em><\/p>\n

Note to my regular readers:<\/strong> Oops. I got busy and distracted during my week of granny camp with the grandchildren — and neglected to schedule this post in time for last week’s deadline. So it’s going up a few days late.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Let me tell you about my daisies. Fresh and perky last week, they had faded and shriveled when I wasn’t looking.\u00a0 Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[221,13],"tags":[103,2840,187,472,2893,88],"class_list":["post-42175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-house-and-garden","category-my-rocky-spiritual-journey","tag-aging","tag-daisies","tag-death","tag-garden","tag-life-cycle","tag-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48697,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42175\/revisions\/48697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}