{"id":2572,"date":"2024-01-05T17:00:45","date_gmt":"2024-01-05T22:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=2572"},"modified":"2024-01-05T17:00:45","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T22:00:45","slug":"the-cold-plateau-of-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=2572","title":{"rendered":"The Cold Plateau of January"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Naturalist <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edwin_Way_Teale\">Edwin Way Teale<\/a> connected with nature throughout the year. I have added <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.librarything.com\/work\/252819\">Circle of the Seasons: The Journal of the Naturalist&#8217;s Year<\/a><\/em> to my daily reading. In the selection for January 4, he describes midwinter as &#8220;a pause in the turning wheel of life&#8221; while &#8220;the whole circle of the seasons stretches away before us as we view the year from the cold plateau of January&#8221; (p. 2). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don&#8217;t know if Teale was a gardener or not. While gardening life slows down this time of year, we never stop completely. I planted garlic in a raised bed in December. We ordered onion sets last fall and will be building a raised bed for their arrival in February. The seed catalogs are arriving daily. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nature doesn&#8217;t stop completely either. As I was taking pictures the other day, I discovered <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nigella\">Nigella<\/a> seedlings in a pot. Also known as Love In a Mist, they are one of my favorites, with sweet blue blossoms that turn to balloon like seed pods, self-sowing and sprouting in the fall, surviving through the winter, then blooming with the first warmth of spring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53445256909_ea04ed82d9_z.jpg?w=604&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naturalist Edwin Way Teale connected with nature throughout the year. I have added Circle of the Seasons: The Journal of the Naturalist&#8217;s Year to my daily reading. In the selection for January 4, he describes midwinter as &#8220;a pause in the turning wheel of life&#8221; while &#8220;the whole circle of the seasons stretches away before &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=2572\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Cold Plateau of January<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[537,560],"tags":[688,687],"class_list":["post-2572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardening","category-nature","tag-edwin-way-teale","tag-nigella"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4X3L0-Fu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2573,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572\/revisions\/2573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}