Here in HPA potpourri of ideas about Highland Park; books; Jewish topics; art, health, parsha, web design, kids, food, gardening and ...Squash or Gourd- September 17, 2008 I have these yellow-and-green squash growing in my front yard, in a pile that has mostly garden scraps and a bit of decayed kitchen scraps. I didn&8217;t plant them there. Maybe next year I will actually purposely plant squash or broccoli there, because it&8217;s right behind my climbing rose bush and in the ...http://www.leoraw.com/blog/2008/09/17/squash-or-gourd/ A Bouquet for the Teacher- September 16, 2008 My daughter presented her teacher (actually, her assistant Hebrew teacher&8211;she has four teachers total: 1 English, 1 Hebrew, 1 Hebrew assistant, 1 English assistant&8211;and this does not count gym, art, music or library) with this bouquet of flowers from our garden. This was her idea. How many of the flowers can you namehttp://www.leoraw.com/blog/2008/09/16/a-bouquet-for-the-teacher/ Images Inside Links- September 16, 2008 In honor of Batya Let&8217;s say you want to wrap a link around an image. You need to be able to spot image code. Look for the &60;img, the code that will start an image. As an example, let&8217;s return to our garlic: &60;img src=&34;http:www.leoraw.comimagespicsartgarlic_med.jpg&8221; alt=&8221;garlic&8221; &62; You see the image begins with &60; and ends with ...http://www.leoraw.com/blog/2008/09/16/images-inside-links/ Todays Flowers: Identify- September 14, 2008 I need your help. I bought this pretty vertical purple perennial in a plant nursery last month, and I don&8217;t recall its name. Can anyone identify it I am thinking this is purple lobelia , because of these links: Bluestone Perrenials Purple Lobelia (Lobelia x speciosa &8216;Grape Knee Hi&8217;) Lobelia cardinalis (Thank you, EG Wow! and ...http://www.leoraw.com/blog/2008/09/14/todays-flowers-identify/ Lithuania in the News- September 14, 2008 Disturbing news from Lithuania I was alerted to this news by a JTA article in our local newspaper The Jewish State. The JTA article was written by Rokhl Rachael Kafrissen. Here&8217;s Rachael&8217;s blog.http://www.leoraw.com/blog/2008/09/14/lithuania-in-the-news/ Images: How to do img- September 14, 2008 In honor of Frumhouse and her JPIX carnival and Batya and her Back in the Saddle Haveil Havalim My plan is to familiarize you with HTML image code, so when you put up an image, you can fine tune it as you need. Here&8217;s how an image tag might look: &60;img src=&8221;http:www.leoraw.comimagespicsartgarlic_sq.jpg&8221; alt=&8221;garlic&8221; &62; The url where it is ...http://www.leoraw.com/blog/2008/09/14/images-how-to-do-img/ Greetings from Mariampole- September 12, 2008 My maternal grandfather (you can see him on this post about my mother) came from a town in Lithuania called Mariampole (now spelled Marijampole). He left as a teen and came to America, to New York. As a young man he was sent to Russia as an American salesman; there he met my ...http://www.leoraw.com/blog/2008/09/12/greetings-from-mariampole/ Sky Watch: Modiin- September 11, 2008 Here is a photo of Modi&8217;in, a new town in Israel, photographed from the distance. You can see that the fields abut tall buildings. The sky in Israel looks like this all summer; we didn&8217;t have to bring raincoats. It doesn&8217;t rain until fall. Here&8217;s how a street looks when we are driving ...http://www.leoraw.com/blog/2008/09/11/sky-watch-modiin/ September 11- September 11, 2008 I ruminated over whether I should post about September 11. Do I really have anything new to add Some bloggers have chosen to commemorate this day; others have not. The easiest part was to decide on an image. Black. It is a day of mourning, is it not There is a ...http://www.leoraw.com/blog/2008/09/11/september-11/ Watercolor: Carrot- September 10, 2008 Here&8217;s my carrot watercolor. I used both watercolor and gouache. Carrots are traditionally eaten on Rosh Hashana, and a &8220;yehi ratzon&8221; is said on the carrots: &8220;Yehi ratzon milfanecha she-yikara roa gezar dinneinu, vyikaru lfaneacha zakiyoteinu&8221; &8220;May it be Gods will that the evil decrees against us be torn up and our good merits be read out ...http://www.leoraw.com/blog/2008/09/10/watercolor-carrot/ |