Pink Azalea with Red Spots

Happy Mother’s Day. Our azaleas have already faded (this shot is from last week), but the rhododendron is starting to show color, and the roses have tiny buds. We have a bit of a chilly day here… lots of unusual winds yesterday.

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Review with Rocket-Like Columbine

On My Blog

  
  
– Interview with Lisa Palombo, Painter
– The Promised Land (video)

Elsewhere in the Blogosphere

• Jew Wishes reviews Beatrice and Virgil (same author as Life of Pi).
• Ilana-Davita presents the first of her blog interviews, Weekly Interview: Treppenwitz.
• Mother in Israel has a provocative and well-discussed post called Should Co-Sleeping be Outlawed?
• Carver posted about Melanoma Awareness (a topic that hits too close to home for her).
• On a related topic, HaAretz had an article:
  Skin cancer increasingly likely among Jewish Israeli men
  There were some nutrition prevention suggestions on that article:
  “Dr. Niva Shapira, a nutrition counselor at the Cancer Association also noted that recent studies have shown a Mediterranean diet rich in fish and olive oil reduces the risk of melanoma.

  Food proven to help protect against radiation includes broccoli, carrots, tomatoes, kiwi, grapes, strawberries, oranges, fish, olive oil, avocado, almonds, tea, cacao and spices including rosemary and sage.

  In contrast, processed red meat; Omega 6-rich oils like sunflower, corn and soy oil; fried food; celery; parsley and figs all increase skin oxidation and skin cancer risk. “

Upcoming: Why Do Jews Eat Dairy on Shavuot? The standard, the fun, the funny, the historical, the hysterical. Feel free to leave your own funny comments on this topic in this post, if you dare to see your words (name dropped) appear in the upcoming post.

Promised Land

From the title, perhaps you were expecting something biblical? Or about American history? Sorry to disappoint, but this is a post of my son’s latest episode of Motor Wars. Enjoy.

See a previous Ruin Rui episode.

Inn with Orange Hills

I took this photo of the Country Inn at Jiminy Peak in the Berkshire Mountains of western Massachusetts back in January. I love both the round and triangular elements of the facade and the orange color of late afternoon on the mountains.

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Coming Soon: a return to Ruin Rui – to be posted on this blog by tomorrow (Thursday)

Today’s Flowers: Hellebore

My neighbor has this beautiful nodding flower in his front yard called a hellebore. I find it delicate and gentle.

Today is Lag BaOmer, the 33rd day of the Omer. My kids get to go on a field trip tomorrow in honor of this day when Rabbi Akiva’s students stopped dying (2000 years ago?), and some people may get haircuts. The Omer is counted every day from Passover to Shavuot; Shavuot falls on May 19 and May 20 this year. For a fun post on Lag BaOmer, visit Mrs. S.

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