I took this photo of a dried sedum flower a block away from my house a few days ago.
Here’s a sedum flower I photographed last September. I believe this is “Showy Stonecrop” or Sedum spectabile. I would like to try growing this flower in my garden this summer.
For more flowers, visit:
Welcome to another round of “What Do You See?” with a drawing by my daughter. So, nu, what’s in this illustration? Thanks for playing!
Photo Memes:
Today’s Flowers
Ruby Tuesday
Sepia Scenes
Sky Watch
A Meaningful Tweet
How to Get the Most Out of Your 140 allowed characters on Twitter
Website Revamp
I redesigned my home page.
Creative Summer Programs
What would you like to do creatively?
Time Travel Flick
Enjoy my son’s movie about time travel through a dumpster time machine in Highland Park.
Who is Helping Whom?
I answered this in the comments. I have another one of these ‘What Do You See’ posts scheduled for Saturday night.
Why You Shouldn’t Eat Soy (a video)
What Soy Products are Healthy (another video)
New York Times: Twitter? It’s What You Make It
Haveil Havalim, the blog carnival of the Jewish blogosphere, will show up is now up on this blog on Sunday morning (that’s Sunday afternoon to those of you on the other side of the Atlantic).
Sky Watch Friday is a photo meme with photos of sunrises, sunsets, blue skies, gray skies, pink skies, dark skies and any other kind of sky posted by bloggers all over the planet.
OK, I lied. This first one isn’t in Edison. It’s on my block in Highland Park, but I want to learn the name of the tree that has these branches. Maybe in the spring when the leaves come back.
I took this photo yesterday at about 5:30 pm, when I was picking up my son from an after school program. The school, RPRY in Edison, New Jersey, is a Jewish Day School, so both the U.S. flag and the Israeli flag were flapping around in the sunset. Today they are probably flapping even more; the wind has been howling since this morning, and a poor woman in Mountainside, New Jersey was killed when a tree fell on her car.
This shot was take above the basketball court at the school.
I love the color accent setting on my camera. My daughter’s ballet tutu was in teal, so teal got the accent for these photos. In Photoshop, I just adjusted the magenta and yellow settings a bit to add some sepia.
This photo has sentimental value, as the paintings that are highlighted because of the teal setting are my mother’s landscapes.
If you want to see a funny sepia movie, check out Time Travel Flick.
For more sepia photos, visit Sepia Scenes.
Some of you may remember the snow girl my daughter, middle son and my daughter’s friend built. Well, she melted a bit, then she got snowed upon, so I put some red sunglasses on her and stuck the heart back on so she could pose for my Ruby Tuesday shot. It’s good I did it last week, because the snow has now melted all away. My daughter did not approve of my new snow lady at all; she claimed I ruined her. I think I gave her a new style and look.
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The sky really was this white on this day in mid-January. Today, in early February, we are having a thaw, and I looked outside for signs of crocuses. Maybe my neighbor’s snowdrops will come up soon? The ground is still too hard to plant peas, but I should order some new ones and some inoculant to plant with the pea seeds.
Esser Agaroth hosted the #203 edition of Haveil Havalim, the weekly blog carnival of the Jewish blogosphere. In addition to Tu B’Shvat, the holiday of the trees, this coming week means elections in Israel. Israel has many different parties; governments are formed by coalitions (want to learn more about the Israeli Political System? Take Prof. Yaacov Yadgar’s free, online course on the Israeli Political System). You can learn more about how bloggers vote by reading this week’s HH edition. I found Cosmic X’s post: Are Most Israeli Bloggers Leftists? interesting: the leftists are writing in Hebrew, the right wingers in English?
Please calm me down, as I am hosting next week’s Haveil Havalim. This won’t be too hard, will it, Jack? Will I be clever, witty enough for this prestigious task? Stay tuned.
A note from Jill, her art teacher:
“My art professor suggested coloring books are the worst thing for a child, because they feel they can’t live up to the pre-made/adult created outline. That they come up with such interesting and wonderful things when given ‘permission’ to explore. ”
Photo Memes:
Today’s Flowers
Ruby Tuesday
Sepia Scenes
Sky Watch
What Is It? Oh, so that’s what it is!
Pick n Choose Macrobiotics
(take some ideas from this healthy diet and incorporate them in your own eating habits)
Fresh Tekka ( a recipe: you don’t need burdock or lotus to try it; carrots and onions alone can work!)
The History of a Bat-Mitzvah (parsha post; thanks for the birthday wishes!)
Finally, a great geek joke emailed by a good friend (some SQL knowledge necessary)—>oy, this geek joke has gone missing. Sorry!