Jerusalem Hills daily photo

. February 16 was National Almond Day, or so the American calendars tell me. And indeed when I rode the train up to Jerusalem yesterda...

. While at the Israel Museum for yesterday's Purim celebrations , I took some time to get away from it all, walking down to the quie...

. I wish the white almond blossoms in our Jerusalem Hills would stay forever.  You can enlarge the pictures with a click and then an...

. Those puffs of white and pink?    Yes!--they are almond blossoms! The trees on the mountain are starting to bloom. Click once or tw...

. The almond trees are blossoming! Right on time for their Tu BiShvat holiday. That's the New Year for Trees that I posted about last F...

Quantas, "The spirit of Australia," it said on my plane. Just yesterday I saw downtown Sydney looming just beyond the terminal w...

The now-white almond trees and the white boulders and terrace walls give some "relief" from the ubiquitous green of the valley.

I come, I come! ye have called me long; I come o'er the mountains, with light and song. Ye may trace my step o'er the waking earth B...