GARDEN of JOY: FIG Tree collages

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PHOTO COLLAGES OF JOY'S FIRST FIG TREE

תאנה T’einah One of the 7 Species Shivat Haminin

Joy Krauthammer's photos and collages ©, record the origin of her fig trees (given to others) grown from hundreds of barren branches (scions) pruned and shared each year for TuB'Shvat tree holiday, along with their fantastic summer bountiful succulent savory figs.

Joy's first fig tree grew from a barren branch given to her around 1980 by a friend (Jim Leonardis), father of her daughter's pre-school friend. This branch had come from his grandfather's tree in Italy. I, Joy, am grateful.

Fig quotes and Joy's poems are at end of post.

Violette de Bordeaux or Mission Fig?

Joy Krauthammer ©

Fig platter I prepared and decorated with fig leaves

for Lev Eisha women's breakfast, Sept. 2012.

Figs were immediately devoured!

Last heavenly harvest of the season.

Fig tree

Garden of Joy

Figs Imitating Art
Joy Krauthammer © 2012

Season's Ripening Crop 2012
Joy Krauthammer ©

Fig Trees Birthing Babies

I planted barren fig branch from Italy in 1980.

Now, 32 years nourishing us humans and animals.

I am grateful.

These fig tree shots were taken in January 2011 after pruning and rooting in water.

The ripe figs were from summer 2010. - Joy

Fig tree photos and collage
by Joy Krauthammer ©

Figs below are served in my FIG TREE CAFE, dine in or take out.

Figs alone eaten whole, skin and all straight from the tree or basket, figs split open, figs sliced in half with berries or almonds in center, figs cut into a fruit bowl that I've carved from a melon. One friend likes figs in cream which solidifies the fig sap into a custard texture. - Joy 2011

Fig tree photos and collage
by Joy Krauthammer ©

Branches on the FIG tree below are leafing a month after January pruning. There's even an unripened summer fig left on the tree in the winter. By June, I'm thrilled that the tree in the Garden of Joy is filled with leaves.

(The man who cleans my spa is not thrilled because the fig tree leaves fallen into the spa turn the water green! He too loves to eat the figs each summer so he is not happy that I had to cut down the top of one large trunk where harvesting figs had been easy.)

Fig tree photos and collage
by Joy Krauthammer ©

photo of Joy by AriellaShira

These fig tree shots below were taken of the very same tree in my garden, in August 2011 while in full bloom with the first week of ripening luscious figs. Friend AriellaShira picked figs to enjoy and thought she was "in heaven" while savoring them.
- Joy

Fig tree and collages and photos of friends

by Joy Krauthammer ©

AriellaShira Loves Figs

Faye 'n Figs
© Joy Krauthammer

Faye Harvests Figs
by Joy Krauthammer ©

Joyous Faye in Joy's Fig tree

Aviva

Brian

Carole

Sandi

Hesha with figs and passion fruits from Joy's garden

Fig Tree Sunrise

Rabbi Bill Kaplan, dir. Sholom Institute, Malibu

Harvesting fig branches from Mama Fig Tree

32 years old

for Tu B'Shvat festival

in Garden of Joy

Every year I donate/give away 100 Fig tree scions.

Fig Tree Scions cut down from Mama Fig Tree (37 years old) for Tu B'Shvat

to give away to LA shuls during their Tree Seders.

Fig Tree Barren Branches

filled with potential

from Fig Tree 2nd generation on slope.

5 years old.

Gifted to Brandeis Bardin's garden, and Wagner Women.

Tended for G*d by

Enchanted Gardener # 7 Joy

Fig Tree Barren Branches

filled with potential

Gifted to Metivta friends for Tu B'Shvat

Fig Tree Barren Branches

filled with potential

Gifted to Lev Eisha friends during January retreat and also Tu B'Shvat Seder.

New Beginnings

After pruning Mama fig tree to give away hundreds of scions for Tu B'Shvat,

new leaves sprout

Fig Platter for Friends

Harvest after heavy prune

indoors foto

Fig Platter for Clergy

52Frames 2017 week 37 - Choose A Color

Purple Figs from Garden of Joy

Luscious fig crop harvested from 37 year old mama tree, and shared weekly all summer with community.

Last week shared with the local Fire Station woman captain and her crew. (There were local terrible giant fires last week.)

Created and submitted my own purple figs composition instead of using all the color groupings I found in store displays and shot. Added displays as ‘alternates’ to my site.

SEE in week 37: http://joys-favorite-fotos.blogspot.com/2016/12/submissions-to-52-frames-2017.html

Figs for Friends

Harvest after heavy prune

awesomely delicious

outdoors photo same croup

Fig on Conch Shell

Fig in Hand

figs in the palm of my hand

One fig has the stretch mark seen at times on figs when they are bursting with joy.

Fig June Bug

Rain On Fig Leaf and First Fig

Figs on Tree

Late in maturing due to heavy prune, to give away scions by the hundreds to organizations

for Tu B'Shvat.

Figs on Tree

http://sephirathaomer.blogspot.com/2011/06/presence-within-boundaries-day-14.html

Fig Growing

Garden of Joy 6.28.2014

Fig Begin To Ripen

Garden of Joy 6.28.2014

Fig at Season's Finale

Garden of Joy 8.5.2014

Framed Fig

Garden of Joy 7.28.2014

Last Fig of the Summer

Garden of Joy 8.5.2014

Last Figs of the Summer

Garden of Joy 8.5.2014

Fig Tree Sun Star
Garden of Joy
© Joy Krauthammer

Fig tree heavy with figs and fallen horizontal

Fig trees joins heaven and earth.

Figs

Figs & Canna Lily

FIG ~ תאנה T’einah

Garden of Joy

FIG ~ תאנה T’einah

Garden of Joy

FIG ~ תאנה T’einah

Garden of Joy

FIG ~ תאנה T’einah

Garden of Joy

FIG ~ תאנה T’einah

Garden of Joy

FIG ~ תאנה T’einah

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FIG ~ תאנה T’einah

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Fig Tree at Sunrise

Figs

Figs תאנה T’einah

- Joy Krauthammer

Clustered all the way from Gan Eden

beneath giant green leaves,

figs, tender, large, luscious, plump, purple, fresh figs,

ooze white sap when plucked.

In bliss, I lift each sweet sensuous one

up to You.

Birthed to enjoy through and through

I taste the mysterious, mystical treasure,

delicate, dry skin and moist within,

ripe, bursting forth magenta flesh.

I release from the fruit

holy sparks of life. Satisfied

I feel them twinkle

in my mouth

and as they travel throughout my being.

Figs on the tree, I bequeath

to G*d's wild life, other creatures

to glean and feast in joy.

I prune Your trees

and share barren fig scions,

branches filled with potential,

with others to plant

and grow their own fig tree.

On Tu B'Shvat

may roots be blessed

may sap flow

and may buds soon blossom.

excerpt from Manna From Heaven
http://joys-poems.blogspot.com/2010/03/my-poems-from-joy-krauthammer.html

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Fig Tree and Baby Bird

Tallest Branch, Garden of Joy

FIG ~ תאנה T’einah

Garden of Joy

FIG ~ תאנה T’einah

Garden of Joy

FIG ~ תאנה T’einah

Garden of Joy

FIG ~ תאנה T’einah

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Figs for Rabbi Rivkin's family

FIG ~ תאנה T’einah

Garden of Joy

FIG ~ תאנה T’einah

Garden of Joy

2014 Tu B'Shvat

Hummingbird on Fig Tree

This morning of Jan. 17th, it is the 20th anniversary

of the deadly Northridge Earthquake.

That morning I was in my Northridge home.

Since yesterday a terrible wild fire has taken 22 homes,

and 1,700 acres in Angeles National Forest and beyond,

and today the sunrise color is strangely red.

Today is my husband's, z'l, yahrzeit, Jan. 17/17 Tevet

but today is 16 Shvat.

He died 8 years ago.

It is a morning filled with darkness.

I don't want to photograph.

I hear a Hummingbird and look up to the top of the Fig tree,

this week of Tu B'Shvat, birthday of the trees,

and see the tiny bird sitting on a barren branch, and the Hummer makes me smile.

For a fleeting moment

another Hummingbird joins the first.

There is light.

I photograph.

- Joy Krauthammer

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Hummingbird on Fig Tree

Hummingbird at sunrise facing east on newly prunned and leafless Fig Tree

Day of husband's, z"l, 9th yahrzeit, little Hummer returned.

21 anniversary of N. Earthquake.

Hummingbird on Fig Tree

Garden of Joy

Hummingbird on Fig Tree

Garden of Joy

Hummingbird on Fig Tree

Garden of Joy

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enjoy my devotion of

FIGs: Photos and Poems

enjoy my devotion of

FIGs: Photos and Poems

http://joys-poems.blogspot.com/2013/02/manna-from-heaven.html

http://joys-poems.blogspot.com/2013/02/figs.html

http://joys-poems.blogspot.com/2013/02/fig-tree-at-sinai.html

http://joys-poems.blogspot.com/2013/12/fig-tree-gives-again.html

http://joys-poems.blogspot.com/2014/01/hummingbird-on-fig-tree.html

http://joys-garden.blogspot.com/2013/02/fig-tree-collages.html

http://joys-poems.blogspot.com/2013/08/haiku-fig-etiquette.html

http://joys-joyousjoy.blogspot.com/2012/08/gds-fig-tree-parshat-ki-tavo-moses.html

http://www.chabad.org/theJewishWoman/article_cdo/aid/626326/jewish/Manna-From-Heaven.htm

Just read a FIG poem by Naomi Shihab Nye in Persimmon Tree, a writing site that I love:
http://www.persimmontree.org/v2/winter-2013/twelve-poems/

FIG ~ תאנה T’einah One of the 7 Species Shivat Haminin

One of the fruits brought back by the spies to prove that the Land bore fruit.
Bringer of peace.

QUOTES

"Torah compares to a fig tree; Figs on a tree do not ripen all at once, but a little each day. Therefore, one keeps finding new figs in the tree each day.

So too with Torah: The more one studies each day, the more knowledge and wisdom one finds."

(Eruvin 54a)

"They will sit, each person under his vine and under his fig tree, and none will make them afraid, for the mouth of the Compassionate One, G*d of the hosts of Creation, has spoken."
(Micah 4:4) Micah's vision of peace in the Land.

"In that day (of Torah and peace)...everyone will invite his friend in fellowship under his vine and under his fig tree."

(Zechariah 3:10)

"She who guards the fig tree eats the fruit."

(Proverbs 27:18) נֹצֵר תְּאֵנָה, יֹאכַל פִּרְיָהּ

Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil in the Garden of Eden was a fig tree.

(Talmud Bav'li, Sanhedrin 70b)

Trees, our sages taught, are high-level communicators.

(Midrash Bereisheet Rabbah 13:2)

We took the leaves it gave us and made for ourselves loin-coverings of fig leaves.

(Genesis 3:7)

"And Adonai Elo'heem made for the man and his woman garments of skin, and dressed them".(Genesis 3:21)

"The tree that afflicted us, became the very tree that healed us."

(Talmud Bav'li, Sanhedrin 70b)

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Fig platters

6 comments:

Shirley HirschbergJanuary 17, 2014 at 6:32 AM
Joy – you have so beautifully explained why I love figs so much.
They truly are a blessing from G-D.
Love and Hugs,
Shirley
Deena GordonJanuary 17, 2014 at 6:32 AM
Beautiful poem.
Wish you could read it at Lev Eisha.
Deena
Holly ZuckerJanuary 17, 2014 at 6:33 AM
Lovely
Rachelle NeshkesJanuary 17, 2014 at 6:34 AM
Beautiful! Mazal Tov!
Your little fig sapling has been growing for several years already on the side of my house!
The squirrels always enjoy the delicious figs!
XOXO
Cindy PaleyJanuary 17, 2014 at 6:34 AM
Your poetry and photo montage are exquisite.
Have a wonderful day!
xoxo cindy
Robin WinstonJanuary 17, 2014 at 6:35 AM
Yafe m'od!
:-)
Robin

Shalom,
Thanks for visiting my Garden of Joy
BlesSings for reaping and sowing,
Joy

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