What’s That I See! Sometimes something can stare you in the face for a while until you actually notice it. Standing in my front garden thinking about something, probably irrelevant, I found myself staring absent-mindedly at my Daphniphyllum macropodum, a small tree resembling a rhododendron. Daphnyphyllum macropodum- Courtesy of Koishikawa Hitohi Hulking Shape- S. Jeselsohn […]
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Monarch Butterfly on Milkweed Plant – Courtesy Leah McFarland Monarch Butterflies in Trouble For several years we have been in the midst of a milkweed craze across the United States. Monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) are particularly beautiful and the media has written extensively about the enormous drop in their population. Monarch larvae feed exclusively on
Remember When Cameras Had Film? Years ago I took a darkroom photography course at Lehman College in the Bronx. Every few days we would get an assignment to shoot an entire roll of black and white film within some artsy framework. Film then came in rolls of 12, 24 and 36 frames and for class
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Meeting our Main Character Scritch! Scrabble! Scratch! It was a beautiful summer day and I was  quietly reading indoors in a room filled with golden sunshine. Blessed with good hearing and knowing that if I am hearing something odd, I may be in for a surprise.  I looked around and walking across a window shade
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We were walking home Shabbos morning(9-11-21) at 11:30am and passed Independence Avenue & W. 236th St. On that corner (property of PS24), there was a white-flowered buddleia attracting tens of Monarch butterflies. We went back today, Sunday morning (9-12-21), and took pictures and videos. Buddleia flowers tend to bloom and die back quickly and, I