{"id":2873,"date":"2016-03-19T11:35:30","date_gmt":"2016-03-19T02:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/?p=2873"},"modified":"2016-03-19T12:19:30","modified_gmt":"2016-03-19T03:19:30","slug":"paradise-west-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/19\/paradise-west-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Paradise West"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Some people have seen some of my photographs of Shizuoka City and told me that I’m quite lucky to live in paradise.<\/p>\n

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I agree. I am <\/em>lucky.<\/p>\n

But wherever there’s nature, there’s beauty . . .<\/p>\n

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. . .\u00a0and if there’s beauty around, you must be in paradise.<\/p>\n

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I’ve spent the last couple of days in Watkinsville, Georgia and the surrounding area (including a drive out to “Happy Valley”)—and taken a little hiking trip to Stone Mountain Park.<\/p>\n

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Sometimes it’s easy to forget how much nature there is to explore—in such short distances from your front door . . . wherever your front door is.<\/p>\n

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Easy to forget how close paradise is.<\/p>\n

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It’s good to remember what Henry Thoreau had to say about that.<\/p>\n

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My vicinity affords many good walks; and though for so many years I have walked almost every day, and sometimes for several days together, I have not yet exhausted them. <\/em><\/p>\n

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An absolutely new prospect is a great happiness, and I can still get this any afternoon. Two or three hours’ walking will cary me to as strange a country as I expect ever to see. <\/em><\/p>\n

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A single farmouse which I had not seen before is sometimes as good as the dominions of the King of Dahomey. <\/em><\/p>\n

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There is in fact a sort of harmony discoverable between the capabilities of the landscape within a circle of ten miles’ radius, of the limits of an afternoon wlk, and the threescore years and ten of human life. It will never become quite familiar to you.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Cheers.<\/p>\n

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Some people have seen some of my photographs of Shizuoka City and told me that I’m quite lucky to live in paradise. I agree. I am lucky. But wherever there’s nature, there’s beauty . . . . . .\u00a0and if there’s beauty around, you must be in paradise. I’ve spent the last couple of days … Continue reading Paradise West<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2873"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2899,"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2873\/revisions\/2899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}