Jerusalem Hills daily photo

. It was a cool gray day in Jerusalem today, with a few drops of rain. Heavy clouds were sitting on Mt. Scopus at the end of the street...

. Sorry to burden you, gentle reader, with three difficult posts in a row. But I have to get it off my chest,  memories of my short jump b...

. So in the previous post I was telling you that I made a short trip back to my old place in the Jerusalem Hills. And that I arrived Wedn...

. For SkyWatch Friday watch a twilight sky over the Jerusalem Hills change color. The Calder statue , Homage to Jerusalem--Stabile , ...

. For ABC Wednesday   F is for fine. And for failure, franchise, and frequency. Israel's Transportation Ministry is fining Citypa...

. It has been almost two years since Jerusalem's new trams began running. Our light rail is the first in Israel. Strange that onl...

. A friend who lives in Jerusalem started out early in the morning yesterday to capture all the beautiful snow-clad places, and now she gr...

. Operation Pillar of Defense is our new tram's first experience with hostilities. The Jerusalem  light rail has only been up and runn...

 . Look! CityPass , the consortium that (tries to) run the new Jerusalem light rail, just gave us somewhere new  to sit at their  Mt. ...

. At the Mt. Herzl tram terminal today I was really curious about two young men. Each was loaded down with backpacks, cables, and a strange ...

. For PsalmChallenge -- Psalm 40: 1. For the leader. A psalm. Of David. 2. I most surely hoped in the LORD; He bent down toward me, and hee...

. Long silvery clouds above the long silvery tram. The end of the line, on Mount Herzl. For SkyWatch Friday . .

. The new tram goes up and over the new bridge! Calatrava's Bridge of Strings was built to carry Jerusalem's first light rail and al...

. Bear with me as I bundle three memes. Fear not--she is unarmed. These two are reflecting, in a highly polished and distorted way, the bui...

. The poor tram driver looks like a blockhead with that building reflected on his head. For Weekend Reflections , of course. Here we are slo...

. Here's a post for both SkyWatch Friday and Weekend Reflections . I got off Jerusalem's new tram at its terminus, Mt. Herzl, and t...

. With the ride still free of charge and with kids still not back to school and many families on summer vacation, riding the new tram toget...

. Here's the tram where it runs parallel to the Old City's northern wall (visible on the right). The new trams started taking p...

. See? Kids posing with Jerusalem's shiny new tram! Look! Passengers actually boarding ! Today was a truly historic and excitin...