Jerusalem Hills daily photo

. Sunlight enters the arched windows, comes through the beautiful benches, and makes a shadow pattern --all for Hey Harriet's "Sh...

. The street cat is beginning her descent, about to take the final leap from wall to street. . If her motion had not made me look up, I wo...

. For James' "Weekend Reflections" --part of the garden of the Sisters of Zion reflected in some waiting window panes. . Ins...

. For SkyWatch Friday --the innocent rainless clouds of summer floating over the Jerusalem Hills. About half an hour after sunset. .

. So much to see! I went back for a second night of the 2nd annual Festival of Light in Jerusalem's Old City and still didn't see...

. When I do paid work in archaeology my fellow laborers speak Arabic all day. So I learned that foochara is what we say when nice potsherd...

. Welcome to ABC Wednesday V Day. . Not all is vexing and vitriolic here in the volatile Middle East. In Jerusalem, in the heart of the Old...

. The week-long 2nd annual Jerusalem Festival of Light is in full swing. The white light bells swing back and forth as the real bells insi...

. June 13 is the feast day of St. Anthony, "Doctor of the Church, Wonder Worker, Professor of Miracles." That explains why I saw...

. For Louis la Vache's "Sunday Bridges" let's hop over to Tel Aviv. It's less than an hour by bus from Jerusalem. N...

. Toward evening I walked across the street to a favorite place of silence and solitude (the place where I found the discarded artwork ). A...

. More scenes of the 1860s church we first saw in yesterday's post. Notre Dame de Sion monastery in Ein Kerem is a holy oasis of quiet...

. I think it is called Plexiglas. But whatever it is made of, the transparent lectern was great for James' "Weekend Reflections....

. Three fun pics gleaned from a short walk across the Muslim Quarter and the Christian Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City. In a grocery sh...

Enlarge the photo to see the two halves! . Seen on the other side of the village, on the gate to a private driveway. .

. Undaunted by the dumpster's name, meaning Mr. Mouse, I went exploring in a back alley bordering on Jerusalem's industrial area, n...

. Well well, that's a big hole in the ground! . Someday it will be Jerusalem's main train station, if the high speed train railway ...

. We don't collect only bridges, but also benches--and lions too. Enlarge to see the Lion of Judah, the municipal emblem of Jerusalem...

. For Louis la Vache's Sunday Bridges here is Jerusalem's most spectacular, most ambitious, most expensive--but still unfinished--...