{"id":23789,"date":"2023-04-27T19:42:02","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T23:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=23789"},"modified":"2023-04-27T19:42:02","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T23:42:02","slug":"napowrimo-2023-day-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=23789","title":{"rendered":"NaPoWriMo 2023 Day 27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s hard not to bend down to look at what&#8217;s coming up when I go outside these days. There&#8217;s always something new and a hope that something will appear in some places. They usually wait til I&#8217;m not looking or I&#8217;ve given up. In the area that I cut down the old shrubs, there&#8217;s a delicate carpet of tiny green leaflets, no doubt due to more sunlight, looking to get a foothold. <\/p>\n<p>In other news &#8211; quick trip to the art supply store (Arlene&#8217;s!!) for a roll of tape and well&#8230; I replaced all the hot press paper I&#8217;d used so I have some more to cut up and use!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bent over the ground<br \/>\nthis is how we welcome spring<br \/>\nlooking for new life.<\/p>\n<p>Small familiar shoots<br \/>\npoking through the fragrant earth<br \/>\nunfolding greens<\/p>\n<p>a forgiving eye<br \/>\nthe sprawl of leaflets &#8211; all weeds &#8211;<br \/>\ninsisting on life.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/watercolor202324.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/watercolor202324.jpg\" title=\"watercolor painting of a bunch of green weeds in a glass jar against a cobalt blue background. Mostly bright and shadowed greens there&#039;s a couple red stems and a dark area of a plant with small purple-blue flowers. Hints of white flowers among the green.\" width=\"329\" height=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23790\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/watercolor202324.jpg 1646w, https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/watercolor202324-1011x1536.jpg 1011w, https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/watercolor202324-1348x2048.jpg 1348w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 329px) 100vw, 329px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This was either a second cuppa coffee and\/or &#8220;gotta let this dry a little&#8221; break early on. While this painting is perhaps more frantic seeming than the actual jar of stems, I think it sort of captures a lot about them and the season. When I looked at the photo in my phone it offered to ID the plant for me, pointing at the actual leaves, and it did identify the main plant there correctly as garlic mustard.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_5689.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_5689.jpg\" title=\"photo showing in-process watercolor painting at left, with still life of green weeds in glass jar against bright blue fabric background to right. watercolor palette in forground showing yellows and reds.\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23791\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_5689.jpg 2500w, https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_5689-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_5689-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One\u2019s art goes as far and as deep as one\u2019s love goes. \u2014 Andrew Wyeth<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bent over the ground \u2022<br \/>\nthis is how we welcome spring \u2022<br \/>\nlooking for new life. <a href=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=23789\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[13,154,222,63,144,65,147,621,51,740],"tags":[202,539,541,948,105,192,224,1101,465,1258,1267],"class_list":["post-23789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-do-the-work","category-from-the-quote-box","category-gardens-and-flowers","category-haiku","category-life-around-us","category-napowrimo","category-poetry-and-lyrics","category-taking-time-to-look","category-the-creative-process","category-watercolor","tag-dothework","tag-haiku","tag-napowrimo","tag-plants","tag-poetry","tag-process","tag-quote","tag-stilllife","tag-watercolor","tag-watercolorpainting","tag-weeds"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/mstdn.social\/@mbfrezon\/110273425328449456","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/watercolor202324.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3FVAs-6bH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23789"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23793,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23789\/revisions\/23793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}