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I took these photos of the same area of sky, looking southwest from my house, in late September and early October. If you click on the little thumbnails, you will be taken to my Flickr account. It was my first experiment with using Flickr. It helped me organize this post.
This one is my favorite:
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I worked hard to get the background behind the bee to blur. The aperture value was 2.8, the lowest on my camera, which seems to be what causes the background to blur.
I prefer zinnias before they are at full bloom, like in this opening bud. I planted these zinnias from seed (I started them in little containers outside my kitchen door in late spring). I got the seeds for free at the Highland Park Street Fair.
Here they are in my garden, along with orange marigolds and white mums.
Today’s Flowers is hosted by Luiz Santilli Jr. Thank you, Luiz, for featuring flower followers who share photos in a fun fashion.
Batya is hosting the Kosher Cooking Carnival this month, and she is awaiting your food posts. It doesn’t need to be a recipe. Submit a KCC article by October 27 with the KCC blogcarnival.com page. Batya describes KCC:
KCC accepts posts about all aspects of kosher cooking, including Halacha, tradition, jokes, anecdotes, restaurant and cookbook reviews.
And I will be hosting the next JPIX, the carnival of images presented by Jewish bloggers. Little Frumhouse on the Prairie is the “manager” of this blog carnival. Submit a JPIX article by October 31 with the JPIX blogcarnival.com page. Carnival description:
JPix is a carnival for Jews and their pictures, it doesn’t necessarily have to be that ‘joyous expression of art’ which photography can capture, it doesn’t have to be just about photos of Eretz Israel, though they are most welcome. It’s not even about communicating some deep spiritual meaning in a long photo essay, although that’s all right, too. It’s about two things: You’re Jewish and you have photos you want to share, whether they be family, historical, artful, funny, quirky. It’s about sharing.
And anybody in the whole wide world with internet access can enjoy the JPIX carnival.
So, if you are preparing for the upcoming holiday of Sukkot, write up a recipe. Write up your menu. Photograph your Sukkah. Photograph your lulav and etrog. Photograph your kid’s (or some other person’s kid’s) Simchat Torah flag. Draw a picture with crayons of a sukkah, and post that. Describe the vast quantities of food you have eaten during these holidays. Post a food joke. Thank you!
Because my white mums are growing right next to a tomato plant (I didn’t plant the tomato plant there; it grew in my flower garden, and I just let it be), I decided to call this post “Summer meets Fall”, with the tomato symbolizing summer the mums symbolizing fall.
A close-up of the same tomato
Here’s a red dianthus, which I bought in the middle of August when it was on sale and I wanted something red in my garden. Wouldn’t it be nice if it survives the New Jersey winter? It was considered an annual, but one never knows.
To participate in Ruby Tuesday, post a photo (or more) with a little red or a LOT of red. Then visit Mary the Teach at http://workofthepoet.blogspot.com/ to submit your link.
I photographed this daisy-like wild flower growing near a pond across from Lee Turkey Farm in East Windsor, New Jersey. It was a prolific photography day for me.
Note: Fleabane sounds like a good possibility for what this is (thanks, Louise). I think it is a weed. One commenter thought this might be lawn daisies (didn’t look like the ones in Google images, though) and someone else thought asters (and egWow is convinced these are asters). Hmmm…
Today’s Flowers is hosted by Luiz Santilli Jr. Thank you, Luiz, for featuring flower followers who share photos in a fun fashion.
Batya has done a marvelous job of JPIX, a carnival of Jewish pictures. She linked to all my posts on Rosh Hashana by using my Rosh Hashana tag (https://www.leoraw.com/blog/tag/rosh-hashana/ – each post had a picture, as do most of my posts!). However, she had a difficult time with some of the links. Can you help her out by suggesting which pictures need some fixing and how she can fix them? (I found two; the crocs and one of Mordechai’s pics).
I found some photo bloggers I’ve never visited before, such as this one: http://reifyreadying.blogspot.com/.
The best view of sunrise from my house is in my backyard. Unfortunately, my backyard has all those wires up there. I decided to learn to live with wires in photos and let them be part of the composition of the photo.
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Thursday Challenge: the theme for this week is TINY (Small Things, Insects, Flowers, Toys, Miniatures, Little Children,…)
I took some photos of my oak leaf hydrangea on Friday.
I bought this plant several years ago. At the time I really had in mind the type of hydrangea that has the blue or pink clusters of flowers. But the plant nursery did not have any of those, and the man recommended this one. The truth is, I find the flowers, which show up in the spring, not as exciting as the ones on the other types of hydrangea. The real beauty of this plant is the leaves. And now with autumn they are exhibiting lovely shades of red.
