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.
She was happy to be included with the sunset. Personally, I think she’s more interesting to look at than my sky photos, which all seem to look alike. To me. Sky Watch is great to do with your kids.
For many years this was the Corner Confectionery. Then that little ice cream shop/candy store on South Third Avenue closed its doors, and a FOR LEASE sign haunted the windows for several months. About a month ago the sign disappeared. I wonder what it will be?
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No, it’s South Fourth Avenue, taken with my camera set to sepia color!
See the post below for sepia photos of homemade bread.
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I am greatly enjoying the work I do for the Highland Park Public Library, especially the page for 2009 Teen Film Festival. I must admit some bias in this project; I have a talented filmmaking son whose film will be one of those screened on Sunday, February 8 at 2 pm. I understand he has some cameo roles in some of the other films. A beaming mom!
I consulted with my local tree expert, and she thinks these trees outside my office window are American Sycamores. There seem to be quite a few in Highland Park.
I was attracted to them because of the round seed balls.
The above is a photo of the seed ball, before we got white snow now gracing Highland Park.
The trunks have this distinct peeling bark. This particular tree is on Abbott Street.
Same tree as above, but the sky was bluer.
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.
Last week I noted two wonderful Sky Watch posts: Guy in Regina and Carletta in West Virginia. Guy wrote: “I’m sure glad I had my camera while I was driving down Lakeshore Drive…” and Carletta said: “As I look through the branches of the big old oak tree often I catch a glimpse of the sky and know a sunset I wouldn’t want to miss is about to happen. Traces of pink in this image were enough to make me grab my camera last Thursday as I was looking at Sky Watch posts and head outside.”
I wanted to share with you a bit of how I get photos. Two of my three kids take art classes across town with Jill, so I’m often driving from the North side of Highland Park (where I live) to the South side (where Jill lives). It seems that this driving is often around sunset (at least in winter). So on the particular day that I took these photos, I had a few minutes before I needed to pick up my daughter, and I headed over to the high school to see the cupola (see above) and its sky. On my way, I captured the moon (see top photo).
I enjoyed the pinks and blues on top of the high school, but I realized that I had to rush to get my daughter on time.
On my way in my car to get my daughter I need to cross Raritan Avenue. I photographed the above while waiting for the light to change. You can see by the upper right of the photo that I’m taking this through my windshield.
Once my daughter was in the car with me, we re-crossed Raritan Avenue. A quick glance down Raritan toward the river and New Brunswick displayed a powerful, colorful sunset. But I decided to head over to the back of the high school with my daughter. This is what I caught in the back.
Here’s my six-year-old daughter’s contribution to this post (she took this picture).
In contrast here’s how the high school and cupola looked this morning during a brief snowfall.
When the weather gets warm after getting cold, pretty puddles result. I took this photo in Donaldson Park on December 23.
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This is how Donaldson Park, a large county park on the edge of Highland Park, looked on December 23.
Here’s a similar view taken on December 17.
This is what I saw back on December 12.
Here we are on December 23 again. The park is empty now, except for those birds and an occasionally jogger or walker. But during the warmer months it is alive with ball players, kids in the playground, tennis players, picnickers, people admiring ducks and dogs (there is a little caged dog park). In the past year much construction has been going on in the park so only parts of it are usable. I previously photographed the edge of the park that borders on the river; in that photo, the foliage is at its peak.
Sky Watch Sneakers
I suspect people throw them up there to annoy others. I’ve never seen anyone actually do this. They’ve been there for ages, kind of a part of our block.
Thursday Challenge: Sidewalk (a photo of a pink carnation I threw on the icy sidewalk because I crave color in winter)
Kosher Cooking Carnival: Greasy Story Edition
Parsha posts about Joseph and Hanukkah
Caption This Story (drawing by my daughter)
Ways to Stay Healthy post (I’ll try to write another one soon!)
Enjoy the snowy foliage on this post, even if the topic is that crook Madoff.
A tale of an Iranian-Jewish newcomer on a Hanukkah night (Roya Hakakian gets published in Forbes: she is the sister of a Highland Park resident).
Mimi teaches us how to make origami dreidels.
Lion of Zion writes about RPRY in Highland Park/Edison (he lives in Brooklyn).
Hawthorn trees with beautiful crimson berries are all over Highland Park. This particular beauty is on Lawrence. Click on any of these to enlarge.
I couldn’t resist another post of hawthorn berry photos (see previous hawthorn berry tree).
This is as about as close as I can get to those berries without producing a blurry image (anyone want to buy me a new camera? The ones in the $3,000 range would do fine).
Same photo as above, cropped closer so it looks larger (thanks, Robin, for the idea).
This shot shows the thorns well.
It snowed two days ago, so I went around the corner to my local hawthorn tree and photographed these. Nice contrast to the bluer sky above.
I’m working on a post of Donaldson Park for My World, and I thought I’d throw in a sky above the park.
And here’s a gull, flying over the Raritan River.
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