Jerusalem Hills daily photo

Today is an important feast day for the Church. On June 24 the nativity of John the Baptist is celebrated. He was born in Ein Kerem, the vil...

. Just after the concrete park with the flower-bedecked horse the busy King George Street begins. One of the store windows had a sign in En...

. Thanks to Kris McCracken and wife Jen, I heard of World Wide Knit in Public Day . In the normal world it happened this year on June 1...

When it has been in the 90s F (or 30s C) all week, you just feel like finding some shade and some cool Jerusalem stone and curling up for a...

"Nightlife" in our moshav. :) No "city lights" for us in this secluded rural village in the Jerusalem Hills. The only ...

. Happy summer solstice! To you in the south, happy winter solstice! Sunrise over the Sea of Galilee. View from Tiberias looking toward the...

. "God gave burdens, also shoulders." --Yiddish proverb (To better enjoy the details of motion, click on this photo to enlarge.) A...

Today's ABC Wednesday is brought to you by the letter V. Contributing blogs have various other Vs. Visit them at mrsnesbittsplace . ...

Voltage, very high voltage. Violinist busking on Ben-Yehuda pedestrian mall. Vitamin C ready to be squeezed. Vienna in my village! Famou...

Vestments. Just some of the different priestly vestments worn by Christian clergy.

Vatican flags next to Franciscan flags near the Latin Patriarchate in the Christian Quarter of the Old City. ~~ Vibes.~~ Do you believe cer...

Votive candles lit for a loved one. Vigil lights. Filling them with oil for vespers.

" Voice of one crying in the wilderness." Matthew 3:13. Here at our local monastery John the Baptist baptizes Jesus. The Vulgate t...

The latest fashion for Arab women on display on a narrow street of the shuk/souq/market in Jerusalem's Old City Moslem Quarter.

Waiting for the tourists on the Mount of Olives. . . Here they come. Four kids on one camel! Down in the Negev desert, camels owned b...

Readers of my previous post asked WHY the mandatory use of Jerusalem stone to face houses and structures in our capital. Well, there is some...

For those who just can't wait for its June 25 inauguration, here is a sneak preview of the Bridge of Strings. I first knew something...