Daffodil Trumpet Macro

Now that I have a macro lens, I can finally participate in Macro Monday. What a pleasure to view raindrops on the trumpet of a daffodil up close. See more terrific macro shots:

Review with Raritan Ave Detail

On My Blog

Hereville: A Review of a Graphic Novel about A Young Orthodox Jewish Dragon Fighting Girl

Elsewhere in the Blogosphere

• Margo Young has a blog about her book, A Voyage Through Time. She left Germany in 1938.
• In memory of Hannah Katsman’s father, here is a post she wrote in 2008 about her father: Holocaust Remembrance Day: One Family’s Story.
• Rayna Eliana is often reviewing books that I would like to read, and here is one: Review – The Island Within (three generations of a Jewish family as their lives lead them from Vilna, Lithuania to America).
• Ilana-Davita reviews The Pity of It All (informative account of German Jewish history from the arrival of Moses Mendelssohn in Berlin to Hitler’s being appointed chancellor).
• I bet my husband would love this Lemon Pie. Oh, my daughter might enjoy it, too. By the way, I’m hosting the next Kosher Cooking Carnival (submit your posts here).

Oh Deer, Rabbit and Magnolia

I saw one then two then three deer in a neighbor’s backyard. I approached them with my camera, and they backed into this corner. Then two hopped the fence. The last one stayed behind and nibbled an evergreen bush. New Jersey is getting so developed the deer are living everywhere, or so it seems.

This rabbit seems to be living in our backyard. I saw him twice yesterday.

My neighbor’s magnolia tree has started to blossom. You can see the buds of the magnolia on this post. The yellow background in this photo is from the forsythia.

I decided to give my magnolia blossom a blue background.

For more Nature Notes:

Rhododendron First of Month

I have wanted to participate in The First of the Month photo meme, in which you post the same subject photographed on the first of the month. Well, I will be happy if I get the photo to be within the first week of the new month.

I hope you enjoy my rhododendron photos – you will be seeing more in May.

Crocus with Red Filament

April Fools a few days late – have you ever seen a crocus with a red filament? I haven’t. And the petals didn’t have blue streaks, either.

For more posts with red, visit Ruby Tuesday: