Tag: garden

• 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 […]

  12/29/2022 7:49 am

  abstract, art, art education, art supplies, garden, melancholic, my sketch, nature, poetic, sketch, sketchbooks

• An Idea for Pressed Flowers and Nature Collectors

  

  November 27, 2022 I was spending the end of the day and night in heavenly company, when I was doing yoga on the wall, with breaks in between to read Jane Eyre, I found a little tree bark, preserved, oh my guest 🙂 may have noted these pressed flowers or leaves with a hint of […]

  11/27/2022 8:09 pm

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• Tea Party

  

  “Tea Party” graphite pencils on paper, Nov. 7, 2022 by Jade Nicole Beals, signed dated on back.

  11/07/2022 6:12 pm

  art, fun, garden, heavenly, holidays, lovingkindness, morningtime, my drawings, nature, poetic, relaxation, spirituality, sun, surrealism, teatime, uplifting

• :’*

  

  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 […]

  10/29/2022 6:05 pm

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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

  10/19/2022 6:20 pm

  autumn, garden, my photography, nature, poetic, rhyme

• New England Garden: Dahlia Day and Fairy Forest

  

  It was Dahlia Day at the garden my husband Dan and I went to for the day. This New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill is in North Western MA. It is nice too that libraries around MA offer passes that discount the admission price greatly, and one pass covers two people for the day. […]

  09/18/2022 11:08 am

  art, fairies, flowers, fun, garden, massachusetts, meditative, memoir, memoir stories, my sketch, nature, poetic, relaxation

• Four Things About My Life Today

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  09/17/2022 12:06 pm

  art, fun, garden, massachusetts, memoir stories, peeko

• Inspiring Spaces: An Amethyst Heart and Other Photos

  

  On this blog, I may share a photo of a new arrangement or design in my home. It can refresh your mind to have things set nicely, and often it doesn’t require much addition, but making some space or arranging, for artists working at home or anyone. I tilted the amethyst gem crystal an upright […]

  09/14/2022 3:54 pm

  art, books, creative process, egypt, garden, home, interior design, literary salon we keep, massachusetts, memoir, memoir stories, morningtime, my photography, nature, peeko, short story books, wellness

• 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 […]

  09/09/2022 10:46 pm

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• A Pocket Page: ‘The Pansy’ in Color

  

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  09/07/2022 6:43 pm

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• La Salette Shrine and Retreat Center: Talk…—and Sketch

  

  August 22, 2022 …And now it’s tomorrow, and I have two little true life stories to tell. But first, this is the setting where I am now as I tell them: I’ve just finished all of my green tea this morning from this little mug that I was going to rinse in the kitchen when […]

  08/22/2022 9:21 am

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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. […]

  08/12/2022 12:17 pm

  antique, boston, garden, germany, home, lovingkindness, memoir, morningtime, my photography, photo series, teatime, wellness

• Wildflower Field with Fragrance and Dance— I Love Like This

  

  ^ I love: like this…Love: like this. (my photo of a wildflower field tonight) I worked on my still life painting today. It’s midway in progress (maybe)…It’s an imaginary room and arrangement that came to my mind. The room appears with my brush, the flowers, too; it is funny how I can’t tell if I’m […]

  08/09/2022 5:36 pm

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• Vacation Ends Early: A Lesson from a Teacup and a Wild Flower

  

  I picked a vacation week but it will do better next time as I take the start of it more seriously, and I have ended this one a day early; tagging posts, “vacation time” missed the point, along with shuffling ‘round and ‘round every thing of mine online…At one point, my phone fully died at […]

  08/08/2022 7:29 pm

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• Wind-flown

  I learned a new word, I think it was wind-sewn; or maybe wind-sown?, or even wind-turned, and I am all windswept or windblown along with these flowers. I don’t know; I like them all anyway…the little red flowers and leaflets and versions of this word… As for the pieces of my novel in progress and […]

  08/01/2022 1:23 pm

  boston, friendship, garden, home, leaving space, literary salon we keep, lovingkindness, meditative, memoir, memoir stories, metta, mindfulness, my photography, poetic, self portraits, soulmates, taking flight, vacation time

• 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 […]

  07/29/2022 4:13 pm

  20th century, angelic, art, benevolence, book review, friendship, garden, heavenly, leaving space, love, lovingkindness, my photography, nonfiction books, peeko, poetry, scotland, uplifting, vacation time

• 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

  07/26/2022 7:11 am

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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 […]

  07/25/2022 8:00 pm

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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 […]

  07/22/2022 6:38 pm

  20th century, garden, inspiring, Kahlil gibran, may ziadeh, moon, my photography, philosophy, poetry, poets, psychology, sky, spirituality, writings by may ziadeh

• 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 […]

  07/15/2022 10:38 am

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• What Grew There, Part 2

  

  My mind told me I must’ve been mistaken of the spot, and I’d then realized the position of the sun is a more reliable indicator, time of day, and also the shape of the trunk of the trees and the branches not just shape of leaves; I am a continuing student of nature. This, too, […]

  07/15/2022 9:00 am

  beauty, benevolence, catholic, garden, lovingkindness, meditative, memoir, memoir stories, my photography, nature, spirituality, sun

• “In the Deep, Unexpected Dark”

  May 18, 2022 In the Deep, Unexpected Dark —for May Ziadeh I cried my tears. I cried your tears on your behalf. I cried in the places where your tears melted and trickled towards mine. I felt your fears and my themes passing through me and on… I looked into your years, and wants, and […]

  07/04/2022 8:00 am

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• Cup of Green Tea and Crystal

  

  06/15/2022 5:31 pm

  21st century, bath, beauty, boston, garden, gratitude, home, love, lovingkindness, meditative, my photography, poetic, spirituality, tea

• An Imagined Room and View, 2

  I sketched this view again, a scene from my imagination I’d shown, and this time I added to the subject and added colored pencils with the pastel (wasn’t a great blend of two mediums for me but I tried). Seeing this, I found a change to make to the subjects. I am finding my way […]

  06/13/2022 6:52 am

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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 […]

  06/12/2022 6:45 pm

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• With My Hands: Flowers Found, Pressed, and Preserved, and A Little Ink Design from My Pen

  

  this had been a great work in progress. This was just first stage, it’s complete. That is my reflection appearing in glass and this art is now up to date. Little changes made by clarifying the text in black ink, clear glue, background white, card pasted onto it with the little gathered pressed flowers, this […]

  06/11/2022 12:00 pm

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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 […]

  06/09/2022 8:06 pm

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• An Intoxicating Book, A Bird Tries to Break into My Window, and More Recent Life Stories

  

  this flower was scented like strawberry and sugarcane 📰📻📚🌸 Intoxicated by A Book and Some Flowers I’d found a book recently called The Perfect Couple by Elin Hilderbrand, and I noticed before I read the book that it was scented so beautifully like the beach by the sea and a sweetly potent suntan fragrance…I breathed […]

  06/08/2022 7:08 am

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• …*

  

  …as if I’d dreamed the tea cup, but found it first and remembered the dream in my own fancy when I received it and picked it up in my hands and looked… The design is just what I would wish…Green I often turn to and admire, green that feels like new sprouts and grass and […]

  06/06/2022 2:49 pm

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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. 😂

  06/04/2022 7:37 pm

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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 […]

  06/03/2022 8:42 am

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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

  05/31/2022 12:07 pm

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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 […]

  05/31/2022 11:20 am

  20th century, beach, beauty, english literature, garden, inspiring, literary salon we keep, love, missouri, modernism, pennsylvania, philosophy, poetry, poets

• ‘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 […]

  05/30/2022 7:31 pm

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• Books and Art: Sifting Through for the Best of Rumi, Kahlil Gibran Scare, and My Creative Plan for the Day

  

  I do this too…(I liked finding this illustrated at The Boston Fine Arts Museum, my own photo of this artwork I saw there)…with my silver aluminum water canteen and poetry book, and a rock to sit on. Friday, May 27th, 2022 Sifting Through for the Best of Rumi I think I’d really confused and worked […]

  05/28/2022 7:24 am

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• A Dream from This…

  

  I begin my dream I will hope to fall into, with the scent of the beach soothing me, surprising, such sweet suntan lotion warmed by the sun by my hands, in a book I’d found, softcover… and step into this photo I took tonight, the simplicity of night, white flowers, like jasmine flowers, the evening […]

  05/26/2022 8:33 pm

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• Toward Me

  

  These little yellow flowers flown upon the breeze landed on my lap tonight; I liked them…After a little while, I placed the strand of flowers in my purse to take home. Just a moment before the flowers, I’d realized I’d found the wrong edition / format Rumi for me, but it looks like the right […]

  05/21/2022 8:08 pm

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