{"id":5235,"date":"2010-06-06T06:21:59","date_gmt":"2010-06-06T12:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fromthefrontporch.com\/WPBlog\/?p=5235"},"modified":"2023-09-18T10:55:11","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T17:55:11","slug":"the-little-things-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2010\/06\/the-little-things-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The little things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"Large\" href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Jun10\/LV1017.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center-noborder\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Jun10\/LV1017W.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"625\" style=\"width: 650px; height: 625px\" title=\"\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I spend a lot of time at my desk.  <\/p>\n<p>My desk faces east, in the sunroom with large windows all around.  I am a morning person, usually up by 5:00 a.m.  This time of year, it is just getting light as sunrise is just before 5:30.  Sitting at my desk, I watch the sky slighten behind the mountains of the Swan Range, filtered by a bit of my woods.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"Large\" href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Jun10\/LV1012.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center-noborder\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Jun10\/LV1012W.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"625\" style=\"width: 650px; height: 625px\" title=\"\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To the west, the sunroom has both a window and a sliding glass door.  The door leads to an alcove of grass in a corner made by the sunroom, which is tacked on to the end of the house.  In that corner, shaded by a large Ponderosa Pine, is a small lilac bush and a patch of Lily-of-the-Valley.  <a target=\"New Window\" href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/2009\/07\/12\/serendipity\/\" title=\"The Chair\" rel=\"noopener\">  The Chair<\/a> sits there.  Karl likes to lie just beyond the big pine and keep watch over the ravine that is also an active game trail.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"Large\" href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Jun10\/LV1021.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center-noborder\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Jun10\/LV1021W.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"450\" style=\"width: 650px; height: 450px\" title=\"\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, on a gloomy, drippy morning, I brought a few sprigs of the lily-of-the-valley inside to sit on my desk.  That pretty little cruet, the warm light from the little desk lamp, the perfect little blossoms&#8230;the little things.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center-noborder\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Mar09\/EndofPost64050.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"50\" style=\"width: 640px; height: 50px\" title=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spend a lot of time at my desk. My desk faces east, in the sunroom with large windows all around. I am a morning person, usually up by 5:00 a.m. This time of year, it is just getting light as sunrise is just before 5:30. Sitting at my desk, I watch the sky slighten [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-porch-musings"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21822,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5235\/revisions\/21822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}