Jerusalem Hills daily photo

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...

Candles floating in water. Another week comes quickly to an end and the Sabbath now begins. Shabbat shalom.

Not one but two helicopters landing at Hadassah. The hospital is now building a bigger helipad atop its tall emergency medicine building. I ...

The sun is back! There is no pleasure quite like taking a nap in the sun on a warm day in cold February. Here is my friend Lara waking ...

. Day after day now of cold and gray, gray and cold. Here's the view from my house: just across the valley is the western edge of J...

. Here it is, the chair of my dreams! First used one of these ergonomic invented-in-Norway chairs while living as a volunteer at Heifer R...

I was out wandering alone down near the spring when these Russian monastics came by and asked me directions to Ein Kerem. Ein Kerem is t...

I've seen a lot of different identifying signs in tourist buses--but never an icon!  This bus was parked down by our local monastery ...

Shabbat shalom. Wishing you the peace and rest of the Sabbath.

It's kidding season! Today I had the good fortune of passing the neighbors' cheese dairy and goat farm right after a doe had dropp...

On hearing a chainsaw somewhere down in the woods this morning, I grabbed the camera and quickly walked to the lower terraces to investigate...

Welcome to the Jerusalem Hills! My first try at blogging, and I wanted to welcome you with a rare snow picture. But the predicted snow jus...