{"id":10864,"date":"2019-09-13T16:09:16","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T22:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=10864"},"modified":"2019-09-13T16:14:15","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T22:14:15","slug":"a-wreath-for-hardscrabble-creek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=10864","title":{"rendered":"A Wreath for Hardscrabble Creek"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 625px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-10864-1\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/A-Wreath-for-the-Creek.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/A-Wreath-for-the-Creek.mp4\">https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/A-Wreath-for-the-Creek.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=10818\">Earlier this month I wrote about tossing offerings into the Cache la Pourdre River in northern Colorado<\/a>, and it hit me that I had not done anything about a certain creek in the southern part of the state \u2014 a creek that has been hit hard with three summers of flash-flooding (thanks to a forest fire at its headwaters) yet which still sustains my well, among other things.<\/p>\n<p>In September, the flow is just a trickle, typical for the season. So I made a little wreath. M. used to make wreaths professionally, woven from grapevines from our backyard at the Ca\u00f1on City house and filled out with dried flowers. Mine was simple by contrast: a willow branch and some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.easterncoloradowildflowers.com\/search.htm\"><em>Liatris <\/em>(blazing star) blossoms.<\/a>\u00a0 Yet my thanks and best wishes were sincere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month I wrote about tossing offerings into the Cache la Pourdre River in northern Colorado, and it hit me that I had not done anything about a certain creek in the southern part of the state \u2014 a creek that has been hit hard with three summers of flash-flooding (thanks to a forest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[68,3,23,187],"class_list":["post-10864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-animism","tag-blogging","tag-colorado","tag-water"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-2Pe","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10818,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=10818","url_meta":{"origin":10864,"position":0},"title":"A Proposal for Honoring the Spirit of the Poudre River","author":"Chas S. 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Clifton","date":"October 3, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"I came to the university this morning, and as I walked up the steps to one building, I found an ivy wreath lying at my feet.Having had the benefit of a liberal arts education, I immediately thought, \"The Bacchantes were here last night.\"One problem: it was plastic ivy. Maybe today's\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9005,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=9005","url_meta":{"origin":10864,"position":2},"title":"A View of Hardscrabble Creek","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"January 23, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Last summer, when we had some flooding on Hardscrabble Creek, I sent a video to a friend in England, who replied that he had assumed that \"Hardscrabble Creek\" was a literary invention. Not so. I have a simple and literal mind, I will admit that. 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