The call of nature

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Three million Israelis (of a population just over seven million) flocked to Israel's forests, nature reserves, and national parks during the Passover week vacation just now ending!
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The intermediary days of Pesach are a rare chance for very religious Jews on leave from their intense studies to get out into nature (and to go a bit wild).
Near my village is an underground spring. Kids like to take off their shoes and wade into the tunnels.
I enjoyed the scene pictured above, so symbolic of the week of Pesach. A religious boy had hung up his suit coat and fedora on the tree in order to climb down to the spring.
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On normal weekdays the spring is a hidden place of silence and solitude, under the fig trees, in the valley.
Not this past week!
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The nearby wadi was also full of big families exploring what feels like a Swiss forest.

The older kids tried to hold the hand of younger brothers or sisters on the more dangerous parts of the trail.
This dead pine tree was still attached at the roots. A dozen little kids were straddling it and bouncing it up and down like a seesaw.

Great fun, and all natural!

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Such was our sunny, warm, fun world all week for That's My World Tuesday.

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