Jerusalem Hills daily photo

. So after living in a women's monastic community for any length of time (I've been here 12 days now), you start to miss seeing ...

. I am always fascinated when seeing the Nesher factory from afar. At night it is lit up like a big city. "The company's ...

. On Friday  Meitar's gym was full of young couples. As the stacks of booklets prove, it was a lecture and exhibit day on the s...

. As seen from the Meitar to Beer Sheva bus this morning. This stretch of  dusty Negev desert near the road  surely hadn't felt wa...

. Lots of road construction going on between Meitar and Beer Sheva. But that doesn't keep the goat herds from coming quite...

. Oi veh, I knew it had to come sooner or later. This month they started chopping up the desert to add a new neighborhood to Meitar. (Mei...

. While over at Hels' excellent "Art and Architecture, mainly" blog,  I learned a lot from her post "Saving an Ottoman-e...

. I wandered around a neighborhood in Jerusalem that was new to me, in the Talpiot area. I even wandered into a construction zone,  sin...

. While on a bus trip from Jerusalem to Beersheba today  I saw  the massive Highway One upgrade underway. It was my first time to see i...

. Around  2005 they had to temporarily move Jerusalem's  65-ton Calder sculpture a few blocks away so they could build an underground c...

. Today three workers were mopping the floor of the new atrium (although the "Caution" signs and the puddles did not deter many). ...

. A friend and I were wandering around the Abu Tor neighborhood yesterday, looking for the beginning of the Sherover Promenade. But first we...

. For Monday Doorways (also Our World Tuesday ), notice the little door between the two ... umm ... strange structures. This is from last ...

. An unusual view of the famous old YMCA from the back. The tall tower and the dome are part of the Y. In back of it you see the venerabl...

. Photo by Gash Bridge & Building Engineering Ltd. Readers were so interested in Begin Expressway's unique acoustic walls that appea...

. (This photo is more fun when enlarged.) Waiting for a bus at Hadassah Ein Kerem Medical Center is never boring. I can always watch a tall ...

. In 1928 Arab entrepreneurs financed the construction of the Palace Hotel on Jerusalem's Agron Street. The hotel was the most luxurio...

. So many of you liked the Gornensky Convent that I give you more today. Please see yesterday's comments for answers to questions raised...