Jerusalem Hills daily photo

Correction! After posting just now about the anemones, I realized readers might think that we still pick wildflowers as described in the son...

The anemones are growing everywhere. On and even in the ancient terrace walls, on the hillside down in the woods, and by the trail...

. This post for International Women's Day is dedicated to the hard-working and welcoming women of the village of Dirijat (aka Darajat) a...

This old house was new to me. I discovered it while roaming the old Jerusalem neighborhood called Nahlaot. The sign over its door, the yin...

Getting into the mood for tomorrow's International Women's Day . . . . Do yourself a favor: click to enlarge this photo and enjoy th...

I was sitting on a concrete wall near Jerusalem Central Bus Station, eating a sesame bar, waiting for the infrequent bus back to my village ...

The sun was setting behind the western skyline of Tel Aviv, about to sink into the Mediterranean Sea. I stretched my arm way out to the ri...

Abstain from Internet, SMS texting, iPod, etc. for a few days during Lent?? That's the big world news today, that a few dioceses and bis...

The ubiquitous air raid siren tower Thanks to all who read yesterday's post and to you who wrote heartfelt comments. Here is another...

"Good-for-nothing gas masks"?! Surely you were hoping for a happier topic for my "G" contribution to ABC Wednesday . But...

Y'all's love of maps and globes was fun to read about in your comments to an earlier post . So I give you this picture from a Tel A...

. March Theme Day for the friends over at City Daily Photo is Glass. So let me join their fun, albeit unofficially, by jumping back to a f...

True, it is down to 2-7 degrees C in Jerusalem (36-45 F). But is that cold enough for dogs to need jackets? This is something I've neve...

A wintry weekend--thunderstorms and temperatures of 2-6 degrees C (or 36-43 F) in Jerusalem and even colder up here on our little mountain j...

Once you go down from Jerusalem and the surrounding Jerusalem Hills, the lowland of the Shefelah opens up with vistas like this. I snapped...

In a festive ceremony yesterday the 18th Knesset was sworn in. After President Peres' speech the acting Speaker read the oath: "I ...

Frocks for friars. Ordo Praedicatorum, the Order of Preachers . . . Dominicans. Forty days of fasting, beginning tomorrow, Ash Wednesday. ...

Tel Aviv is 100 years old [the Jerusalemite snickers] . I just came home from a weekend in Tel Aviv. The weather was the wildest this coun...

Jerusalem? No way! Welcome to Tel Aviv. Friday I took the bus westward, toward the Mediterranean coast, clear across the country, a drive...

I looked out the window this afternoon to find that Jerusalem had disappeared from the horizon. The hills across our valley had also been s...