Thursday Challenge: Andromeda
This week’s Thursday Challenge theme is SPRING (Birds, Flowers, Puddles, Trees Budding, Spring Cleaning, Young Animals,…). Click to enlarge.
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Watery Sandy Hook Bay
Yes, this is the way my life functions; we go on one trip to Sandy Hook, and the result is posts for at least two weeks of this Jersey Shore area. (I still have photos from last June’s Israel trip that I could share, but not today).
These two are on the bay side of Sandy Hook.
For more watery posts, visit Watery Wednesday:
Guess Object Continued
This photo has more detail of the object in question. Now can you guess what it is?
See previous Guess the Object post (there are clues in the comments). Mottel correctly guessed the answer; you can see it in the comments. As a reward to him, please go visit his blog and see some of his beautiful photos. Some of have been posted to CNN.
Guess the Object
Any idea what this is? Yes, it’s shaped like a ball, but what is it? And where is it?
Today’s Flowers: Periwinkle, Lilac, and Dogwood
Periwinkle is growing on the side of my house: it’s a great ground cover for shady spots.
The lilac blooms have already fallen off my neighbor’s bush. They don’t last long.
The dogwood flowers are such a pleasure to view in bloom.
For more flowers, visit Today’s Flowers:
Week in Review with Tulip
On My Blog
Today’s Flowers: Grape Hyacinths and Creeping Phlox
Watery Wednesday at Sandy Hook
Sky Watch at Sandy Hook
Nature Notes: A Pictorial View of Sandy Hook
A Month of Modern Jewish Holidays
What is RT? (I’ll give you the answer now: it’s Re-Tweet! More on Twitter in future posts)
Upcoming in Highland Park: The Highland Park Public Library is once again having a book sale! (and my neighbors put a lot of energy into putting this together, so three cheers for them. You’ve seen their red bud, magnolia and dogwood trees on my blog). It’s the same weekend as the Annual Street Fair, which is on May 17. If you live in Central New Jersey, you can donate books from May 11 to 14.
Elsewhere on the Web
Coach Lisa on Payment vs. Exposure
From the article:
Some of you get paid to speak; others hope to get paid one day. One thing that we all face as paid speakers is the issue of payment vs. exposure. That is, we will be invited to speak pro bono, or will be offered less than our usual rate, and we’ll have to decide if it’s worth it to take less money in order to get exposure or visibility…only a few of my pro bono speaking engagements have paid off in clients or future speaking engagements. Read the rest.
How to Build Natural Immunity against Swine Flu
Rabbi Yoseph Breuer: the Rav of Frankfurt and Washington Heights (via G6)
Sky Watch at Sandy Hook
Last Sunday we went to Sandy Hook, a lovely beach with dunes at the top of the New Jersey Shore. There is a bay side and an ocean side to Sandy Hook.
In contrast to the golden sunset above, the sky was blue at the beach a few hours earlier.
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.
Watery Weds at Sandy Hook
We had exceptionally warm weather on Sunday, and so we traveled with the traffic to the top of the New Jersey shore to a wonderful beach called Sandy Hook. More Sandy Hook photos coming on Thursday, as part of Sky Watch.
Have you ever been to the Jersey Shore? Where did you go?
For more watery posts, visit Watery Wednesday:
Today’s Flowers: Grape Hyacinth
I appreciate grape hyacinths, small cone-like flowers that grow from fall-planted bulbs, more now that I have whole bunches of them popping up in front of my home.
The grape hyancinths go nicely with the creeping phlox blooming in patches of my front yard.
For more flowers, visit Today’s Flowers:
U.S. Consulate on Agron Road
The Rebbetzin’s Husband has a radiant Haveil Havalim, the blog carnival of the Jewish blogosphere, posted. I thank him for including my Windows of Jerusalem post, which has a detail of the above photo. And for connecting my post to Yom Yerushalayim, Jerusalem Day, which is at the end of this month of Iyar.
Klara correctly identified the building on Agron Road as the U.S. Consulate:
On Agron Street there is a U.S. consulate building, not THE Embassy, but definitely has an American flag there. I have to agree with Batya that the building (stone) and the windows (and trissim, shutters) are common in many older buildings.
