The greening of Jerusalem

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Long shadows for Hey Harriet's "Shadow Shot Sunday."

The little traffic island at a busy Jerusalem intersection where Agrippas Street begins.

You can enlarge the picture to pick out (not pick!) the different flowers making their debut now in January.

In Israel, winter and not summer is the season for trees, wildflowers, and garden flowers to bloom.

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Here is the same place last October when the weather was still very hot and dry.

Only the drip irrigation pipes were in place.

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Not much blossoms in our long rainless summer season. Plants wither and turn brown.

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Yay for Israeli winter!

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