Final shadows of day

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 Shadows cast by the setting sun at 5:08 pm. 

This is from inside my friends' house, just before I shut the shutters from the outside  (see previous post).

Wooden Moses seems to be observing the pretty shadows too.

All for Shadow Shot Sunday.

Upside down sleepyhead

As I closed my friends' shutters against the invading rain, I discovered two of these animals.

One scampered away immediately, but this one just continued sleeping.

Its "eyelids" stayed closed.

Enlarge the photo and see the vertical line where the eyelids meet.

You can even see the ear opening and the bumpy skin!

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When I released the second of the antique little "Menschelach" and moved the other shutter, which gave a rusty screech, only then did the lizard come to life and run away.

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For Camera-Critters, this is.
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M is for Menschelach

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M is the letter of the day on ABC Wednesday.

Metal shutters blowing in the wind?

Menschelach to the rescue!

Little people made of iron!

Known by their Yiddish name, these sweet menschelach are collectors items today.

I always kind of feel sorry for her when she has to hang upside down, not needed, if the shutters are shut.

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Menschelach were brought to Israel by the Templers .

The Templegesellschaft was a German sect of Protestants expelled from the Lutheran Church in 1868. They came to Eretz Israel in the 19th and 20th centuries and founded settlements.

Jerusalem's beautiful German Colony was built by the industrious Templers, beginning in 1878.
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