{"id":8581,"date":"2020-04-06T13:48:34","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T13:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siteandinsight.com\/?p=8581"},"modified":"2020-04-06T13:48:34","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T13:48:34","slug":"visitors-to-the-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenvillaartgarden.com\/fr\/visitors-to-the-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Visitors to the Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the last few days, we&rsquo;ve had visitors in the garden. Some didn&rsquo;t knock on the door, but they\u00a0did leave their calling cards to let us know they came around.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8585\" style=\"width: 5194px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8585\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8585\" src=\"http:\/\/glenvillaartgarden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/untitled-2-of-4.jpg\" alt=\"Tidy work!\" width=\"5184\" height=\"3456\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8585\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tidy work!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I can guess who made those holes, but what creature did the\u00a0work below?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8583\" style=\"width: 3466px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8583\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8583\" src=\"http:\/\/glenvillaartgarden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/trees-1-of-1.jpg\" alt=\"Did a bird strip these trunks bare? \" width=\"3456\" height=\"4608\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8583\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Did a bird strip these trunks bare?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Birds are always welcome in the garden. Ducks, too.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8582\" style=\"width: 5194px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8582\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8582\" src=\"http:\/\/glenvillaartgarden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ducks-1-of-1.jpg\" alt=\"I think these mallards are just getting acquainted. \" width=\"5184\" height=\"3456\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8582\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I think these mallards are just getting acquainted. But shouldn&rsquo;t he be following her?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other visitors are not welcome at all.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8584\" style=\"width: 5194px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8584\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8584\" src=\"http:\/\/glenvillaartgarden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/untitled-1-of-4.jpg\" alt=\"One pair may be ok, but not more than that, please!\" width=\"5184\" height=\"3456\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8584\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oh, no, the Canada geese are back!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One pair would not be awful but a short time later, I spotted four more. And where six Canada geese gather together, more will certainly come.<\/p>\n<p>The best visitors, though, were people who kept well away from my husband and me. We could hear them laughing, though &#8212; clearly they were having fun.<\/p>\n<p>Can you tell what they are doing?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8586\" src=\"http:\/\/glenvillaartgarden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/untitled-3-of-4.jpg\" alt=\"Can you tell what this family of five is doing?\" width=\"5108\" height=\"3405\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A close-up\u00a0supplies the answer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8587\" style=\"width: 1116px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8587\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8587\" src=\"http:\/\/glenvillaartgarden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/untitled-4-of-4.jpg\" alt=\"We bought this croquet set about forty years ago when we lived in England. It has served us well.\" width=\"1106\" height=\"748\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8587\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">We bought this croquet set about forty years ago when we lived in England. It has served us well.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I have happy memories of playing croquet as a child and I am happy to see my daughter and her family following suit.<\/p>\n<p>Did you play croquet as a child? Do you play it now?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the last few days, we&rsquo;ve had visitors in the garden. Some didn&rsquo;t knock on the door, but they\u00a0did leave their calling cards to let us know they came around. &nbsp; I can guess who made those holes, but what creature did the\u00a0work below? &nbsp; Birds are always welcome in the garden. Ducks, too. &nbsp;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[229,895,233,580],"class_list":["post-8581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-miscellaneous-2","tag-canada-geese","tag-croquet","tag-ducks","tag-woodpeckers","category-82","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenvillaartgarden.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenvillaartgarden.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenvillaartgarden.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenvillaartgarden.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenvillaartgarden.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenvillaartgarden.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenvillaartgarden.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenvillaartgarden.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenvillaartgarden.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenvillaartgarden.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}