Israel: Nature
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Enhancing Your Children’s Creativity Through Connecting To Nature
Above: Pomegranite tree in bloom in Northern Israel on June 4th, 2020 Fostering your children’s creativity is something that starts at home. Online classes and art books can definitely help boost your child’s creativity, but at the end of the day there’s nothing like getting in touch with nature to really get creativity flowing. I can say personally that since I’ve been taking nature walks roughly four times a week my creativity is bursting at the seams, and even though I’ve been taking exactly the same walk over and over there is always so much to see if you just open your eyes to the beauty of nature. With that…
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A Walk In The Neighborhood At Dusk Northern Israel Style
Yes dear readers, this really is my neighborhood in Northern Israel, and sometimes I just have to pinch myself when I realize that I’m so very fortunate to be living in such a gorgeous place with rich history and stunning views. It feels like we are living out in the country, and yet we live in town of 35,000 and with everything we need either right next door or within walking distance! This is because we actually live on the edge of the town, and all our neighbors down the hill are those buried in the cemetery, both old (from a long as 2,000 years ago) and new, and a…
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Red Poppies And White Daisies In Bloom In Northern Israel
I love sharing with you all the beautiful seasonal blooming and bearing of fruit of native species here in Israel, and so of course the blooming of the red poppies, a month late this year, is on the list of things to share. I previously wrote about poppies in bloom on a hillside near my home here, but then I recently came across another patch of dense blooms and just had to photograph it! I took these photos a week plus ago, and fortunately as we are now experiencing a heat wave that has certainly led to the demise of these beauties. And the weather has been so hot that…
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Pride Of Madeira Blooms In Northern Israel
One of my favorite non-native yet very Mediterranean garden friendly plants is Pride of Madeira. I found some small plants at a local nursery years ago, and the tiny plants have become woody bushes/trees that bloom every Spring with gorgeous cone-shaped purple flower stalks. This year we had a very wet winter and so all the plants are blooming roughly a month late, which is fine by me, just now that the hot weather has arrived the blooms will likely not last as long, such is life. In any case, I’ve once again photographed the Pride of Madeira bush in a garden I designed a few years back, and it…
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Wild Red Poppies In Bloom In Northern Israel!
At long last, after a thankfully very very wet winter, the beloved red poppies are in full bloom! Truthfully, they are about a month or so late, and not nearly as prolific as usual, but lovely nonetheless. After a long walk in the area and only spotting sparse areas of poppies here and there, I came across a hillside, just a minute from my house, full of vibrant red poppies in bloom! Wow, so beautiful, and so of course I just had to take lots of photos to share with you! These red poppies, are natives to Northern Israel, though it turns out that there are several species of red…
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Wisteria Blooms In Northern Israel
During the Passover holiday my daughter was itching to just get outside, so I sent her down the street to the garden I designed a few years back, with the mission of photographing the glorious wisteria in bloom! Wisteria blooms before there are any leaves on the vine, so it is truly spectacular, the only downside being that it just doesn’t last long enough! This year the usual tour groups that gather in this location will most certainly not be coming, so this may be my chance to start the wisteria filled pergola for creating a shaded area with vines! I have seen this before, and it actually works really…
