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Tu BiShvat — New Year of Trees

Almond Trees, Israel — Kibbutz Netiv HaLamed-Heh, Israel, 1981

Since ancient times, Jews have celebrated the New Year of Trees on the 15th of the month of Shvat (February 10 at sundown in 2017). In Israel, the cold, rainy winter is coming to an end and flowering almond trees announce the arrival of spring.

cov_whatonearth_250px Today, in Israel and the diaspora, TuBishvat has become the Jewish Earth Day and I’m pleased that Jewish educators are planning to include What On Earth Can We Do? in their Tu BiShvat and Tikkun Olam (repairing the world) programming.

In honor of Tu BiShvat, I’ve compiled a selection of my photographs and drawings of trees.

sper_tree_infared_providence — Providence, RI, 1976

Tree, Lake Tahoe, NV, 1993 — Lake Tahoe, NV, 1993

Red Rock Branch — Red Rock State Park, AZ, 2003

Acadia droplets on pink branch — Asticou Azalea Garden, Northeast Harbor, ME

Birch Trees, Cabot Woods — Newton, MA, 2016

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