{"id":733,"date":"2005-04-20T10:50:54","date_gmt":"2005-04-20T17:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/greening_up\/"},"modified":"2005-04-20T10:50:54","modified_gmt":"2005-04-20T17:50:54","slug":"greening_up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/greening_up\/","title":{"rendered":"Greening up"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week, while I’ve been away from my blog, Mother Nature has been doing her best to paint our landscape. We’ve had sunny weather well into the 80s with unusually warm nights for April. This morning, as I was having toast, I looked out into the grove, and realized that the shrubs and trees were beginning to blur the outline of the the houses to our west.
\nDuring the winter, when the trees are bare, we are very aware of our neighbors. There are six houses along our lot line. From where I’m sitting, I’d guess the houses are about the distance of a football field, or one hundred yards. Our grove is old, and a great deal of it has fallen over the years. We’ve purposely left it wild as cover for wildlife.
\nI welcome the leaves in the Spring. They give us a sense of privacy you don’t normally have living within the boundaries of a town. The noise is muted and the trees give us a little relief from the afternoon sun.
\nDespite what Robert Frost had to say in “Mending Wall,”<\/a> I rather like the barrier my grove gives. Perhaps I’m like the neighbor who is buried in the past, but there are times when privacy is to be cherished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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