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

Category: nature

trees, bees, animals, water, seeds, flowers, birds

Raritan River Liatris

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At the edge of Donaldson Park is plenty of purple liatris. Raritan River liatris grows beautifully in summer.

Filed in: Highland Park, nature Tagged: Donaldson Park • Raritan River(6 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)

Rutgers Gardens in October

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October Rutgers Gardens post shows Gomphrena globosa, bench in rain garden, chipmunk, Raritan River foliage and Donald B. Lacy Display garden

Filed in: Central New Jersey, day trips, nature Tagged: Raritan River • Rutgers Gardens(24 Comments)

Jewish Holidays and Nature

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Jewish holiday season: relationship between Jewish holidays and nature? We sit out in sukkah. We pay attention to the moon – Jewish calendar is lunar.

Filed in: Israel, Jewish, nature(15 Comments)

Seagulls at Point Pleasant Beach

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Seagulls at Point Pleasant Beach in New Jersey: jumping seagull, flying seagulls, seagull pose for camera, seagull eats and seagulls stare.

Filed in: Central New Jersey, day trips, nature(26 Comments)

Ma’alot Israel Flowers and Birds

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Nature Notes visits Ma’alot Israel Flowers and Birds: globe thistle, mourning dove, buttercups, sparrow, palm tree all in a city on a hill in Northern Israel

Filed in: Israel, nature Tagged: thistle(23 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)

Sabra Plants – Prickly and Sweet

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Above Meron village I saw sabra plant. Prickly and sweet like a native-born Israeli, sabra fig is called tsabar in Hebrew. Also saw kalanit – red poppy.

Filed in: Israel, nature(13 Comments)

Watching Birds in Beit Shemesh

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Watching the birds in Beit Shemesh: pigeons, sparrow, roosters. Etrog on tree. Buildings next to countryside.

Filed in: Israel, nature(16 Comments)

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