{"id":66361,"date":"2025-01-19T11:19:12","date_gmt":"2025-01-19T11:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=66361"},"modified":"2025-01-19T11:40:17","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T11:40:17","slug":"snowdonia-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2025\/01\/snowdonia-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Snowdonia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reaching Snowdonia<br \/>\nWhat do we see<br \/>\nWonderful mountains<br \/>\nDecked in history<br \/>\nColourful plant life<br \/>\nPlentiful sights<br \/>\nSheep dotted everywhere<br \/>\nClaiming their rights<br \/>\nTo roam by themselves<br \/>\nTo taste the green gloaming<br \/>\nAll the while peacefully<br \/>\nDutifully roaming<\/p>\n<p>Waterfalls cascading<br \/>\nDown into rivers<br \/>\nLife is parading<br \/>\nSo much to see<br \/>\nThe realisation<br \/>\nOf what is creation<br \/>\nThe immortal enduring<br \/>\nWelsh History<\/p>\n<p>Be aware of the light<br \/>\nA crescendo of brightness<br \/>\nOf darkness of dampness<br \/>\nPresent everywhere<br \/>\nThis is Gods country<br \/>\nIt\u2019s perpetual beauty<br \/>\nMind sapping honesty<br \/>\nThat we all share<\/p>\n<p>To live in this country<br \/>\nBeing absorbed by its greatness<br \/>\nIt knows it\u2019s identity<br \/>\nNature it rules<br \/>\nEvery sight that one takes in<br \/>\nA fresh innovation<br \/>\nA landscape of genius<br \/>\nA bigness that calls<\/p>\n<p>Imagine the enormity<br \/>\nThe creatures  one can\u2019t see<br \/>\nLiving their lives out there<br \/>\nIt\u2019s their domain<br \/>\nWhere once the slate miners<br \/>\nTook umbrage to fetching<br \/>\nHour after hour<br \/>\nAlways hoping to gain<\/p>\n<p>The road threads a highway<br \/>\nLucidly true<br \/>\nSo much variety<br \/>\nIn what we do<br \/>\nWhat we see<br \/>\nWhat we feel<br \/>\nWhat we smell<br \/>\nEyes a flutter<br \/>\nWe take in the grandeur<br \/>\nThe sights of each scene<br \/>\nA carpet of  masterful ochres and magentas<br \/>\nFirey reds slate greys<br \/>\nAnd all sorts of green<br \/>\nIt stretches before us<br \/>\nBoundlessness everywhere<br \/>\nPerpetual Nature<br \/>\nEach vigorous look<br \/>\nPotent and powerful<br \/>\nIt\u2019s out there before us<br \/>\nWatching for sheep boys<br \/>\nA great open book <\/p>\n<p>Snowdonia a park<br \/>\nOf valiant effort<br \/>\nOf peacefulness<br \/>\nMountain tops reaching the sky<br \/>\nGreat swirling mists<br \/>\nSun rays bright and beautiful<br \/>\nAn absence of present day squalor<br \/>\nNo lie<br \/>\nIt\u2019s great to be here<br \/>\nIn these distant wild spaces<br \/>\nHillocks and hillsides<br \/>\nAnd pitches and slopes<br \/>\nContours and silhouettes<br \/>\nSo much expression<br \/>\nForelands and headlands<br \/>\nAnd a forthcoming hope<br \/>\nFor our future <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reaching Snowdonia What do we see Wonderful mountains Decked in history Colourful plant life Plentiful sights Sheep dotted everywhere Claiming their rights To roam by themselves To taste the green gloaming All the while peacefully Dutifully roaming Waterfalls cascading Down &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2025\/01\/snowdonia-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[485],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66361"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66365,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66361\/revisions\/66365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}