Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Leaning on ladders

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Do you like ladders?
Come have a laugh with these pictures in honor of ABC Wednesday L-Day.
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Living in the Hills, we like our ladders long.
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Part I: LADIES ON LADDERS
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A brave friend on chapel-cleaning day.

A brave Russian Orthodox picking olives at Gorni Convent.
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Our Tiberias excavation director about to photograph our square.
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Hard-hatted me about to descend into a Canaanite shaft tomb in Jerusalem.
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Part II: BOYS AND THEIR LADDERS
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Before sun-up, the dig photographer at work at Tel Yarmouth.
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The neighbor boy building a new roof.
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"Plastering" over the straw bales in the neighbors' new straw bale house.
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Part III: LEFT LADDERS
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Under the window in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the famous ladder that none of the churchmen dares to move since the 19th century because of the Status Quo.
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Night falls and the tired olive pickers leave their ladders.
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Leaving little room between ladder and ceiling.
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Silence and solitude, even for ladders!
View from the cemetery of the Sisters of Zion in Ein Kerem.
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And to see the angels on the ladder of Jacob, please go back to an ABC post of two years ago.
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23 comments:

  1. I hope you didn't need your hard hat when you got to the bottom!

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  2. Wow! I'm impressed that you could find so many ladders! I especially liked the one with you and the ladder.

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  3. What a post! Your ladder collection is like nothing else I've seen. That "Status Quo" ladder is especially unusual. Dina, you never cease to amaze me.

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  4. I never looked at ladders this way before. They all reminded me of angels reaching for the stars. Gorgeous post!

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  5. Nice post Dina! You planned ahead yes?? Lots of ladders.

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  6. well, that's one way of getting up in the world...(groan)

    ROG, ABC Wednesday team

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  7. I always wanted to build a hay bale house!

    Wonderful ladder post.

    You look super-competent ready to descend!



    Warm Aloha from Waikiki

    Comfort Spiral

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  8. Lots of ladders, fun series Dina.

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  9. That's was exhaustive, I haven't ever seen so many ladders together... Verona has clearly to become your sister city!

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  10. une superbe histoire d'échelles

    bonne idée !!

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  11. That last shot begs the song, "We are climbing Jacob's ladder, we are climbing Jacob's ladder, we are climbing Jacob's ladder, soldiers of the cross!

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  12. I've just discovered your delightful and knowledgeable blog and it reminds me of how beautiful Jerusalem is. Alas five years since I was last there. How good to see something that reminds us that not everything in Israel needs to be moderated through the eyes of the world media pack.
    Malcolm

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  13. What a nice collection of ladders ! I hope nobody fell down !

    Gattina from the ABC team

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  14. What an exciting profession you have, Dina. You look fit and proper as an archeologist in that hard hat. :D

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  15. Thank you all for your comments that make me smile and laugh, and welcome to new readers.

    Just a few answers:
    Suzanne, no, the post was not planned. I just realized that I had many ladder pictures on file and then brought them together. Guess it shows that I like ladders, eh?

    Eki, I'm just a digger, a laborer, not a professional archaeologist.

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  16. Dina, I think you have outdone yourself with this one!!!

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  17. Amazing to think the ladder was left there al that time.
    And nice to see you ready to go down in history!

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