Why Meadow & Thicket? Well, hope you are sitting down, or in some comfortable stance, because this is a bit long\u2026 just like the name, far too long if you follow all the marketing rules.. but naming isn\u2019t about following rules.\u00a0 It\u2019s about being enchanted.\u00a0 When I was little I adored \u201cAnne of Green Gables\u201d and the \u201cSecret Garden\u201d and Louisa May Alcott\u2019s \u201cFlower Fables\u201d.\u00a0 What still resonates in my body and mind about the stories in those books is the feeling of the fields and forests, glades and streams.\u00a0 Whole universes of beauty and magic, right there, out windows, just beyond the walls\u2026 I can smell the cherry blossoms outside Anne\u2019s gable window right now while I type this, except that they smell like the mayday tree outside of my not-gabled window in Edmonton when I was growing up.\u00a0 I so wished I had a Violet Vale or a rose thicket-guarded secret garden to escape to, but I did have alfalfa hay fields a 10 minute bike-ride away and I had that mayday tree and I had the stories.\u00a0 As a teen, I should have moved on I suppose, but these remained my favorites and they were then complimented by a set of Jill Barklem\u2019s Brambly Hedge stories.\u00a0 Exquisitely illustrated and enchantingly told stories about a magical but welcoming place that you could find \u201cif you look very hard amongst the tangled roots and stems\u201d\u2026.<\/p>\n
So when it came to naming this place, the process was indelibly scented with all those stories.\u00a0 The fact that we are in Wildwood was already a good omen!\u00a0\u00a0 And this land is that\u2026wild tangled woods of willow and trembling aspen, spruce, snowberry and alder on gently rolling hills that ebb away into vales also filled with the thickets that co-create the streams of cool, moist, fragrant air trickling down with the snowmelt and rain water to the Lobstick river.\u00a0 These wild thickets embrace the small cleared fields that have turned into meadows of brilliant purple asters, pink and red wild rose,\u00a0 yarrow and a regal relative of angelica, along with too many others to name here\u2026how could it be anything except Meadow & Thicket and all the enchantment that name implies?<\/p>\n
Now I could go on about how Meadow & Thicket is also symbolic of the \u201cboth-and\u201d philosophy\/fact of life\/way of being that I embrace more and more each day, but let\u2019s leave it there for now\u2026can you smell the fragrance yet?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Why Meadow & Thicket? Well, hope you are sitting down, or in some comfortable stance, because this is a bit long\u2026 just like the name, far too long if you follow all the marketing rules.. but naming isn\u2019t about following rules.\u00a0 It\u2019s about being enchanted.\u00a0 When I was little I adored \u201cAnne of Green Gables\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowandthicket.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowandthicket.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowandthicket.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowandthicket.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowandthicket.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/meadowandthicket.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4162,"href":"https:\/\/meadowandthicket.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/4162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowandthicket.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowandthicket.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowandthicket.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}