Be With

September 20, 2018Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Life and love, Meditations, Muse and Flow, Photography, Quotes, Reflections, Writing Tags: blessing, compassion, empathy, friendship, humanity, Interconnectedness, kindness, Nurturing, Photography, Poetry, Quote, Writing prompt 4 Comments

Photo: Dikla Nachmias

When someone needs,

May you be there

May you be with.

When it is you who needs,

May someone be there for you

To be with.

For Nurturing Thursday

Questions of Color

September 20, 2018Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Life and love, Meditations, Muse and Flow, Photography, Reflections, Writing Tags: Black and White, CB&W, Central Park, Color, Melancholy, New York City, Photo Challenge, Photography, Poetry, Things Kids Say, Writing prompt 4 Comments

Photo: Na’ama Yehuda

What will be

Of the day,

He so wanted

To say,

If you suddenly

Drain

All the color away?

Will the birds’ calls

Remain?

Will leaves still

With wind sway?

Will it be

As before

Or fade wholly

To gray?

For Cee’s Black & White Challenge: Trees

Flower of First Rain

September 19, 2018September 19, 2018Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Photography, Reflections, Writing Tags: Beautiful, Botany, Colchicum stevenii, Fall, flowers, Israel, Mediterranean, Photo Challenge, Photography, Seasonal 4 Comments

Photo: Amitai Asif

It emerges in fall

Flowers preceding leaves

To mark the last

Breath of summer

And the bounty that winter

Will soon retrieve.

Colchicum stevenii grows in the Mediterranean region and throughout Israel, blooming between October and December. Its name in Hebrew “Sitvanit Ha’Yore” literally means “Fall flower of first rains.” Flowers range from 1-2 inches (2-5 centimeters), with petals shaped from straight ruler-like petals to egg-like. Petals’ hues can be lilac or pink to almost white. The bulb contain colchicine, a toxic/poisonous material that is used in medicine to treat arterial diseases and gout.

For Cee’s Flower of the Day