{"id":69256,"date":"2025-09-01T13:52:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T13:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=69256"},"modified":"2025-09-01T13:57:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T13:57:01","slug":"dyfi-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2025\/09\/dyfi-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"Dyfi valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A magical \u00a0forest<\/p>\n<p>huge trunks every where<\/p>\n<p>a primeval happening<\/p>\n<p>such beauty they share<\/p>\n<p>from the road looking high<\/p>\n<p>The true soldiers \u00a0they stand<\/p>\n<p>Heading up to the sky<\/p>\n<p>the great Sitka \u00a0Spruces<\/p>\n<p>and Japanese Larch<\/p>\n<p>commercial conifers<\/p>\n<p>seemingly March<\/p>\n<p>upwards and always<\/p>\n<p>red cedars and all<\/p>\n<p>hemlock and sessile oak<\/p>\n<p>creating a wall<\/p>\n<p>of beautiful beings<\/p>\n<p>an army up there<\/p>\n<p>Bringing their silence<\/p>\n<p>for us all to share<\/p>\n<p>a peculiar darkness<\/p>\n<p>a stature of soul<\/p>\n<p>mosses and lichens<\/p>\n<p>out of control<\/p>\n<p>the great under storey<\/p>\n<p>where rabbits and fox<\/p>\n<p>tiptoe and eyeball<\/p>\n<p>the conifer stocks<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>a foretaste of \u00a0longing<\/p>\n<p>of bygones before<\/p>\n<p>this great unbelievable forested core<\/p>\n<p>verdant and leafy<\/p>\n<p>an inky refrain<\/p>\n<p>masses of pine needles<\/p>\n<p>a shimmering chain<\/p>\n<p>of survivability<\/p>\n<p>during long days of rain.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A magical \u00a0forest huge trunks every where a primeval happening such beauty they share from the road looking high The true soldiers \u00a0they stand Heading up to the sky the great Sitka \u00a0Spruces and Japanese Larch commercial conifers seemingly March &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2025\/09\/dyfi-valley\/\">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":[749,905,316,249,274,485],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-country-tale","category-a-day-in-the-life","category-forests-and-wild-places","category-trees","category-trees-our-silent-friends","category-wales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69256","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=69256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69257,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69256\/revisions\/69257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}