Tag: garden
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Wild Sumac: Look, Don’t Touch, and Definitely Don’t Eat
This is a sketch of the wild sumac growing outside my window. In North America, this plant is poisonous, but in the Middle East you can eat them and may find the berries made into dressing in certain classic dishes. I sketched the sumac quickly as an art lesson I’d found that looking at shapes […]
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Tea Party
“Tea Party” graphite pencils on paper, Nov. 7, 2022 by Jade Nicole Beals, signed dated on back.
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Oct. 27, 2022 I am very sad today, I spotted this flower, a little green arch above it. If I would’ve been there longer, it would have been watered by my tears… * Dear Mayy, I know of a place you may like, you may already know, I haven’t been there in awhile; let’s go […]
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Berries on the Spot
Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Green, Green, Green; Not sure what they are, by default, Don’t eat them. 🙂 Jade
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Fresh Strawberries and a Flower Bouquet by the Window
(in my private collection) “Fresh Strawberries and a Flower Bouquet by the Window” by Jade Nicole Beals Sept. 8, 2022. 11 L x 14 W sides painted, signed and dated on back by me. * My 8th recent painting. I have been working on this one for awhile, since around June maybe, and it began […]
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Two Photos from Today’s First Half of the Day
my new petite antique tea mug, blue forget-me-nots and lavender accents, maybe from 20th century Germany, and my handwritten papers of restorative things I may do. How the sky looked when I was just waking up; it was a momentary blush that really thrilled me enough. My latest poem I wrote today, and then another. […]
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It’s An Old Scottish Custom book review
(feat. photo my cat, Peeko lounging like a classy lion with the book about to be reviewed…) *-.-_o-* + As for symbols, I just am really intrigued with this kind of art; it may just happen… (Post Title art made with symbols) … …now onto the book review of It’s An Old Scottish Custom by […]
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Thriving in Their Secret Ways (Photo Series)
I’ve felt that these photos are really meant to be seen all together: & my favorite… love, Jade
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From the Prose Poetry of Miss May Ziadeh, Chapter “Intimate Pages”
I have an idea for the blog to share my own little lines of literary critique of May’s writings (besides my book review of her poetry book, Fleurs de Reve Flowers of a Dream, 1911), the kind of attentiveness she valued in her own reviews and critiques, ’tho would’ve rarely in her time and place […]
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Five Quotes from the Past That Feel True Now
July 22, 2022 I came across these quotes in Google when I was looking for quotes during a moment of rest, hours after I’d posted the photo and my words in the first post. There is so much that resonates with me in these in my own life and past. The first quotes are by […]
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What Grew There
What grew from past pain, watered with my tears and compassion, now found swinging in the morning breeze: these. * Called “Bittersweet,” these flowers are highly toxic, not to eat, ✔️and it matters not, they are so beautiful. … By looking up at the shapes of the leaves on the trees, I’d found the place […]
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Stepping Into a Novel Set in 1000 AD Like I’m In It Already
June 13, 2022 A beautifully unfolding novel I find myself at ease in the place and am amused to find myself sharing so many interests with the characters in this historical novel (set in Scotland about 1000 years earlier than our current time): Queen Hereafter by Susan Fraser King. I share with the characters interests […]
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An Imagined Room and View
A quick sketch I did tonight with my recently found pastel pencils…of a view I’d had in mind for awhile from my imagination…and I am not sure what kind of flowers these are; let me know—they have felt necessary—first time seeing this view of mine in color on paper. I am still envisioning how it […]
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Champagne or Gold or a Buttercup from the Field
June 4, 2022 I don’t care. Neither does Ed…Let’s dance. 💃🥂♥️♥️ Oh yeah, I had Ed Sheeran mis-tagged last post as ‘Australian’. I don’t know why…I don’t care either. 😂
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“Love Exists” by Amy Lee (Guy Sigsworth Remix) Began with Italian Lyrics
Since I’d first heard Amy Lee (well-known as the lead singer of Evanescence), I always hoped she would someday do a solo album because I’d loved her voice and enjoyed it much more than the band’s music personally at the time, and then many years later I‘d found she had done a solo album with […]
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“Without Question”
roses, high noon (a quatrain) I used to fear the night, but ’round your head, there was a glow. I liked it better than the sun, It was love, I was yet to know. —Jade
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The Gift by H.D.
The Gift —by H.D. (born 1886, Pennsylvania) Instead of pearls—a wrought clasp— a bracelet—will you accept this? You know the script— you will start, wonder: what is left, what phrase after last night? This: The world is yet unspoiled for you, you wait, expectant— you are like the children who haunt your own steps for […]
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‘Please Forgive Me’—Rumi
I found the book I must’ve opened some months ago that wasn’t at the store last week; it wasn’t there but I see it in my above photo, so I know what to look for…I think it was Rumi: The Book of Love. 🙏💕📖 —Jade …from another book, a poem by Rumi …The miracle-signs: you […]