{"id":69260,"date":"2025-09-01T17:15:57","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T17:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=69260"},"modified":"2025-09-01T17:15:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T17:15:57","slug":"some-of-the-trees-i-have-seen-in-snowdonia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2025\/09\/some-of-the-trees-i-have-seen-in-snowdonia\/","title":{"rendered":"Some of the trees I have seen in Snowdonia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am eighty two<\/p>\n<p>and what I feel \u00a0is true<\/p>\n<p>in the forests there<\/p>\n<p>Makes me want to share<\/p>\n<p>The Douglas Fir<\/p>\n<p>the Norway Spruce<\/p>\n<p>Gigantic Christmas trees<br \/>\nlet loose<\/p>\n<p>these conifers now side by side<\/p>\n<p>sheltering birds<\/p>\n<p>and where squirrels hide<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>bowing down<\/p>\n<p>To the \u00a0wind swept way<\/p>\n<p>looking at their worth<\/p>\n<p>and their bright display<\/p>\n<p>these bounteous forests<\/p>\n<p>Let us say<\/p>\n<p>stand together \u00a0day on day<\/p>\n<p>going back in time I see<\/p>\n<p>every single Christmas Tree<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>standing proud \u00a0against the snow<\/p>\n<p>loving light and feeling so<\/p>\n<p>thinking of those Yuletide scenes<\/p>\n<p>and the pyramidal greens<\/p>\n<p>whose pendulous branches<\/p>\n<p>weave and wave<\/p>\n<p>this \u00a0wondrous vista<\/p>\n<p>we must save<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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>I am eighty two and what I feel \u00a0is true in the forests there Makes me want to share The Douglas Fir the Norway Spruce Gigantic Christmas trees let loose these conifers now side by side sheltering birds and where &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2025\/09\/some-of-the-trees-i-have-seen-in-snowdonia\/\">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":[249,274,485,562],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trees","category-trees-our-silent-friends","category-wales","category-yule"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69260","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=69260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69261,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69260\/revisions\/69261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}