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Sketching Out: Sketches of art, watercolor, photos, recipes, books, interviews, Jewish topics, and Highland Park, New Jersey

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Excitement of a Purplish, Red, and Pink Radish

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First “fruit” of my garden: a purplish, pink red radish emerges and becomes a radish watercolor painting.

Filed in: art, gardening, green Tagged: watercolor(2 Comments)

Rutgers Plant Sale: Snapdragon, Petunia

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Every year in early May there is a wonderful plant sale at Rutgers Gardens. I bought: snapdragons, petunias, Rutgers tomato plants, two kinds of rosemary and some broccoli plants. Last year: hydrangea

Filed in: Central New Jersey, gardening, green, nature Tagged: petunia • Rutgers • Rutgers Gardens • snapdragon(20 Comments)

Flowers of Comfort

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Do you have favorite flowers of comfort? Rudbeckia, Mexican poppies, lilies and columbines all grow in my yard. What your favorites?

Filed in: gardening, Jewish, photography(9 Comments)

Sage Leaves Watercolor

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Sage Leaves Watercolor is a watercolor exercise from book One Watercolor a Day. Sage plant survives winter near kitchen door.

Filed in: art, gardening, nature Tagged: sage • watercolor(20 Comments)

Nature in New Jersey and Maryland

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Pond at Holmdel Park, New Jersey. Pig at Longstreet Farm, New Jersey. Peace and Friendship garden with Peace Tree sculpture at University of Maryland.

Filed in: gardening, green, nature(20 Comments)

Jacaranda Trees with Purple Blooms

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Jacaranda Trees originally from South America photographed in Nahariya, Israel a beach town in northern Galil

Filed in: gardening, green, Israel, nature Tagged: jacaranda(14 Comments)

Echinacea Flower – Coneflower

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Echinacea flowers also known as coneflowers photos for Thursday Challenge

Filed in: gardening, photography(6 Comments)

Notes on Lecture with Dandelion and Periwinkle

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Notes on Muslims and Jews in France lecture, bombs at Boston Marathon, dandelions with periwinkle, phlox, and purple deadnettle and a blog interview.

Filed in: Central New Jersey, gardening, green, Jewish, photography, upsetting news(9 Comments)

Mrs. Cardinal and Kitchen Scallions

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Mrs. Cardinal sits in backyard tree. Female cardinal has lovely feathers. Scallions grow in water in kitchen.

Filed in: gardening, green, nature, photography(11 Comments)

Verbena and Cardinals

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Verbena shows pink our front yard. Male and female cardinals congregate and eat from bird feeder in backyard.

Filed in: gardening, nature, photography(11 Comments)

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