{"id":23049,"date":"2022-04-06T18:20:02","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T22:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=23049"},"modified":"2022-04-06T18:20:02","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T22:20:02","slug":"day-6-napowrimo-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=23049","title":{"rendered":"Day 6 NaPoWriMo 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we had a mission &#8211; doctor appointment! Pick up prescription! Bank! Oh, why the heck not, Lunch! Then it was some odds and ends to straighten up. <\/p>\n<p>Another mostly gray, early spring day but the signs are all sneaking in. My junior high science teacher had us keep a list of all the signs of spring we saw &#8211; buds, birds, animals, weather, everything. It was a great exercise in observation and provided a way to introduce bird identification too!<\/p>\n<p>I am always reminded of Robert Frost&#8217;s poem, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/poets.org\/poem\/nothing-gold-can-stay\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nothing Gold Can Stay<\/a>&#8221; when I see a willow doing its thing against the brown background, so when I read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.napowrimo.net\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NaPoWriMo<\/a> prompt&#8230; well I had to give it a go. &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.napowrimo.net\/day-six-9\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">I\u2019d like you to write a poem that reproduces a phrase with the first words of each line<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>nature&#8217;s waiting game<br \/>\nfirst buds pinking up the hills<br \/>\ngreen still a surprise<br \/>\nis this a true sign<br \/>\ngold finches don their yellow<br \/>\nher thoughts turn to love<br \/>\nhardest part of year<br \/>\nhue emerging from gray brown<br \/>\nto gold green washes<br \/>\nhold that willow close<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_8704.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_8704.jpg\" title=\"Front Garden of Daffodils\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23050\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_8704.jpg 2500w, https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_8704-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_8704-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we had a mission &#8211; doctor appointment! Pick up prescription! Bank! Oh, why the heck not, Lunch! Then it was some odds and ends to straighten up. 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