{"id":42106,"date":"2019-06-23T18:00:22","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T23:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/?p=42106"},"modified":"2019-06-23T11:36:54","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T16:36:54","slug":"the-courtyards-close-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/?p=42106","title":{"rendered":"The Courtyard’s Close Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been sharing snippets of the courtyard, and this post <\/a>showed its status soon after we moved in.\u00a0 But now with the flowers blooming and the shrubs filling out, I thought you might like to see it again.\u00a0 There is one minor thing we need to do, and that will happen next week when our son and son-in-law are in town for the week.\u00a0 We need to level the fountain.<\/a>\u00a0 Right now it is leaning slightly, and the water level is not even.\u00a0 So, it splashes out some when it is really full, like after a rain.\u00a0 Other than that, it is finished for now……ha, you know how that goes.\u00a0 I already have plans for a fun tweak next year. But right now, lets look at the courtyard’s close up.<\/p>\n

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This is the view from the porch.<\/a>\u00a0 The courtyard is a nice size, and it just wraps its arms around us with coziness.\u00a0 The table is an old one that we will always have.\u00a0 I love it, and it is in perfect condition. The umbrella is a few years old but looks brand new.\u00a0 We bought it here<\/a>, and I highly recommend it.\u00a0 The fountain can be purchased here<\/a>.\u00a0 The thing that is driving me crazy is that the two bougainvillea plants aren’t growing evenly.\u00a0 We bought them at the same time, and they were the same size.\u00a0 The one on the left is growing, and the one on the right is thinking about it.<\/p>\n

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The color theme is pink and white, and we planted pink and white begonias and have three pots of pink geraniums.<\/p>\n

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There are only two varieties of permanent plants.\u00a0 We have two dwarf gingko trees and the rest are boxwoods.<\/p>\n

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The gingko trees are nice because their leaves turn yellow, and they all drop at one time.\u00a0 We will only have to rake once every fall.<\/p>\n

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I have two spots for herbs.\u00a0 This area has curly leaf parsley, lemon thyme, basil, rosemary, and dill.<\/p>\n

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This side has thyme, flat leaf parsley, basil, rosemary, chives, and oregano.\u00a0 I love cooking with fresh herbs and have had an herb garden almost every year since we were married.<\/p>\n

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We have been eating lots of meals of out there.\u00a0 In fact, we just finished brunch.\u00a0 If you follow us on Instagram,<\/a> then you saw in our stories that we entertained in the courtyard Friday night, and you saw the tablescape and heard about the menu.\u00a0 We are trying to build up our Instagram<\/a> following, as is everyone, and if you are on there, please follow us for behind the scenes in our daily lives.<\/p>\n

That’s our courtyard.\u00a0 I have always loved courtyards, even when we had a house on 10 acres of land.\u00a0 Let me tell you that we don’t miss that land and all of the work at all.\u00a0 We are very happy right where we are.<\/p>\n

Take care.<\/p>\n

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I have been sharing snippets of the courtyard, and this post showed its status soon after we moved in.\u00a0 But now with the flowers blooming and the shrubs filling out, I thought you might like to see it again.\u00a0 There is one minor thing we need to do, and that will happen next week when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":42124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[3,13,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42106"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42106"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42129,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42106\/revisions\/42129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}