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This is one of my favorite pictures of a woodland statue, at the foot of Mary. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 There was a heavy frost last night\u2026 a cardinal fluffed-up\u00a0in the pine. \u00a0 And its November, queue white\u00a0Schlumbergera (Christmas Cactus).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1932,"featured_media":3206,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[179,298,297,296,64,299,147],"class_list":["post-3203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-garden-walk","tag-cardinal","tag-christmas-cactus","tag-frost","tag-mary-statue","tag-nature","tag-schlumbergera","tag-st-francis-retreat-center"],"yoast_head":"\n
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