{"id":9157,"date":"2013-11-01T01:10:46","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T06:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paganpages.org\/content\/?p=9469"},"modified":"2013-10-31T19:14:15","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T00:14:15","slug":"connecting-with-nature-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/2013\/11\/01\/connecting-with-nature-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Connecting with Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><strong>Falling in Love with Autumn<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We are well into autumn and many of us will be preparing for the winter months soon. I find this time of year festive and pretty with the leaves changing colours. With the cooler temperatures I find I stay indoors more often than I am outside. To help embrace the change in season and get outside, here are some ideas:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Go for a hike and bring your camera to capture all the beautiful colours.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Go apple picking and bake something yummy like apple pie or apple coffee cake muffins!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/fall.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9470\" title=\"SONY DSC\" src=\"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/fall-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Clean up the garden or yard outside. Put away outdoor furniture, compost leaves, and plant colder weather flowers such as pansies. The pansies help add colour and life once all the leaves have fallen.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bring some of the outdoors inside by making a fall centre piece or other decoration.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Fall-Decorating.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9471\" title=\"SONY DSC\" src=\"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Fall-Decorating-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Enjoy a pumpkin latte or pumpkin chai tea.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Put up a bird feeder to attract birds to your yard and to help them prepare for winter. Just be careful you don\u2019t attract bears!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Bird-Feeder.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9472\" title=\"SONY DSC\" src=\"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Bird-Feeder-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Go to the farmer\u2019s market and shop for food that\u2019s in season.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Start shopping for the holidays.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Falling in Love with Autumn &nbsp; We are well into autumn and many of us will be preparing for the winter months soon. I find this time of year festive and pretty with the leaves changing colours. With the cooler temperatures I find I stay indoors more often than I am outside. To help embrace the change in season and get outside, here are some ideas: &nbsp; Go for a hike and bring your camera to capture all the beautiful colours. &nbsp; Go apple picking and bake something yummy like apple pie or apple coffee cake muffins! &nbsp; &nbsp; Clean up the garden or yard outside. Put away outdoor furniture, compost leaves, and plant colder weather flowers such as pansies. The pansies help add colour and life once all the leaves have fallen. &nbsp; Bring some of the outdoors inside by making a fall centre piece or other decoration. &nbsp; \u00a0 Enjoy a pumpkin latte or pumpkin chai tea. &nbsp; Put up a bird feeder to attract birds to your yard and to help them prepare for winter. Just be careful you don\u2019t attract bears! &nbsp; &nbsp; Go to the farmer\u2019s market and shop for food that\u2019s in season. &nbsp; Start shopping for the holidays. &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}