{"id":230,"date":"2011-02-27T21:26:52","date_gmt":"2011-02-27T21:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christielau.com\/blog\/?p=230"},"modified":"2011-02-28T16:36:33","modified_gmt":"2011-02-28T16:36:33","slug":"winter-berries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christielau.com\/blog\/winter-berries\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Berries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This tree is just outside my window. It has had full branches of hard red berries since the summer and I used to wonder why none of the animals would consume them. I even tried feeding them to some raccoons! The cornucopia of this sad red berry brought me to the conclusion that they were probably poisonous (and then I felt bad about the raccoons!)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christielau.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/window_blog_cl.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-234\" title=\"window_blog_cl\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christielau.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/window_blog_cl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.christielau.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/window_blog_cl.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.christielau.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/window_blog_cl-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Finally, in December, I detected movement outside my window. On one of the branches there was a black squirrel shoving evil berries into its mouth, and on the tree next to it, there was a brownish red one having the same menu. For the next few weeks, it was like that- a black one on my tree, and a reddish one on the other, safely eating harmless berries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christielau.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/window2_blog_cl.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-236\" title=\"window2_blog_cl\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christielau.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/window2_blog_cl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.christielau.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/window2_blog_cl.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.christielau.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/window2_blog_cl-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One day, I saw a pair of cardinals on my tree too! I realised that the animals were saving these berries for the winter, when life gets tougher for all Canadians.<\/p>\n<p>I am so impressed with such self restraint, wise preparation and act utilitarianism from the animals! Nothing blooms in winter, but good things can last throughout.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christielau.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/window3_blog_cl.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-237\" title=\"window3_blog_cl\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christielau.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/window3_blog_cl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.christielau.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/window3_blog_cl.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.christielau.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/window3_blog_cl-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I also learned that I should not pick berries prematurely in the summertime for raccoons (in case I start a famine).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This tree is just outside my window. It has had full branches of hard red berries since the summer and I used to wonder why none of the animals would consume them. I even tried feeding them to some raccoons! The cornucopia of this sad red berry brought me to the conclusion that they were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christielau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christielau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christielau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christielau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christielau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.christielau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244,"href":"https:\/\/www.christielau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions\/244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christielau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christielau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christielau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}