{"id":301,"date":"2011-04-01T21:10:09","date_gmt":"2011-04-02T04:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abysmalwitch.wordpress.com\/?p=301"},"modified":"2011-04-01T21:10:09","modified_gmt":"2011-04-02T04:10:09","slug":"beltaine-excursion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/2011\/04\/01\/beltaine-excursion\/","title":{"rendered":"Beltaine Excursion"},"content":{"rendered":"

This Beltaine my covenmate and I hightailed it, okay we ambled casually, over to Queen E park<\/a> in Vancouver.<\/p>\n

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A beautiful place and highly welcoming. \u00a0The nature wights of the place were actually a bit confused as to why we’d bother to ask permission to do ritual there. \u00a0Don’t get me wrong, they appreciated the courtesy, but they’re so welcoming they just never worry about such things.<\/p>\n

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And yes, spring flowers were certainly the bloom of the day. \u00a0The number of hyacinths was remarkable, sending an intense wave of sweet scent over the whole park. \u00a0I love getting up close and personal with flowers, I’m guessing that’s obvious by my picture style. \u00a0In one case I got so close I was inside the flower:<\/p>\n

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Being Vancouver there were the odd markers of recent rain:<\/p>\n

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Now it wasn’t all flowers, all the time. \u00a0There were plenty of trees for us to commune with. \u00a0Many tall, straight and fair. \u00a0And some of them curlier than…well, the phrase that comes to mind is a bit rude and gives also the wrong impression so without further ado, one of the curly trees.<\/p>\n

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After touring the grounds and doing our magical thing<\/em>, we headed into the Bloedel Conservatory<\/a>\u00a0which is in the middle of the park. \u00a0There was talk about closing it last year as part of a series of budget cuts, but so far it’s still there. \u00a0Inside there was another stream, a lot of tropical plants and trees, well labeled actually which was lovely, a display by the local orchid society and a selection of tropical birds.<\/p>\n

There was some truly remarkable orchids, but I think my favourite were these ones. \u00a0First because of the colour and second because they made me think of two high society ladies discussing passerbys.<\/p>\n

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As we were heading towards the door we were greeted by yet another bird, this one who was kind enough to let me take his picture while he kept his eye on us. \u00a0Right up until the little kid came wandering up and then he was out of there!<\/p>\n

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And that, my dear lovelies, was the end of our ritual day. \u00a0From there it was lunch, a little metaphysical book (mostly window) shopping, and then a lacsidaisical drive home through the gorgeous sunshine.<\/p>\n

Happy May Day to all! \u00a0And to all a great night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This Beltaine my covenmate and I hightailed it, okay we ambled casually, over to Queen E park in Vancouver. A beautiful place and highly welcoming. \u00a0The nature wights of the place were actually a bit confused as to why we’d bother to ask permission to do ritual there. \u00a0Don’t get me wrong, they appreciated the … Continue reading Beltaine Excursion<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3,5,7],"tags":[39,154,212,262,291,297],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}