Jerusalem Hills daily photo

Pictures of life in Jerusalem and the Jerusalem Hills. And since August 2013 also a look at the northern Negev, my new home.

Tuesday, July 31, 2012

What's your lucky number?

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. " 'Round and 'round she goes; where she stops, nobody knows." This roulette wheel in Tiberias is on display at the Dona...
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Monday, July 30, 2012

Holy work (on a ladder)

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. Holy work! Today for the first time I saw how they fill the oil lamps on the edicule, above the entrance to the tomb of Jesus. You see th...
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Saturday, July 28, 2012

"Eikhah, how can it be?! "

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. 1 How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! How is she become as a widow! She that was great among the nations, and prin...
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Noisy bird on a dead tree

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. Oof, this bird made such a racket when I walked through its territory! You know, crow-type noises. Finally I turned around to shoot, but h...
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Friday, July 27, 2012

Reflection in a rolling stone

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. This photographer is really "on the ball." For Weekend Reflections , that is. . "Rolling Stone" turns and turns, with ...
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Thursday, July 26, 2012

A red double-decker

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. London?! Na, this is just Jerusalem, on Mount Herzl. Tis the season for tourists to sit upstairs in the circular tour bus, under a blue (a...
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Wednesday, July 25, 2012

A serious no-no

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. It was dark outside, nearing closing time; the cavernous Church of the Holy Sepulchre was almost empty. Suddenly this boy took off his T-s...
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Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Babies' bedtime

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. Just because it's B-day at ABC Wednesday I thought I'd bring you these babies and their blankets at bedtime. Wang Fu's ...
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Monday, July 23, 2012

Anthropoid coffins from Deir el-Balah

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. The 13th century BC anthropoid coffins again, this time close up! Last month I blogged about the ones standing in the Israel Museum in J...
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Sunday, July 22, 2012

Stabilized fruits

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. A novel way to pick at fruit! Enlarge the photo and see the colorful variety of fruits nailed to the palm tree stump. This bird at Jerusal...
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Saturday, July 21, 2012

Ramadan mubarak

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. The domes and minarets and the long flat building are the Al-Aqsa mosque up on (what we call) the Temple Mount. More than 100,000 Musl...
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Friday, July 20, 2012

Face to face

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. This neat thing at the Science Museum makes kids ask, "So do I look like my Mom?" My daughter Naomi got her son Eyal to sit ...
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Thursday, July 19, 2012

The stuff of dreams

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. I just wanted a picture of the old and pretty cradles in the Good Night exhibition at the Israel Museum. But, as if in a dream, a woman...
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Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Old-fashioned fun

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. Hot hot hot. Our heat wave in Israel is lasting weeks this time. So what's a grandma to do when three grandkids come visiting to my ...
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Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Ancient two-armed anchor

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. To open Round 11 of ABC Wednesday here is an ancient two-armed anchor. It is around 2,100 years old but enlarge the photo and you will ...
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Monday, July 16, 2012

Oi what a schnoz!

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. Here is a "cute" ossuary I saw at the Eretz Israel Museum near Tel Aviv. It was discovered in Peki'in , in northern Israel...
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Sunday, July 15, 2012

Mammals of Israel, stuffed

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. While the grandkids were visiting, I finally had an incentive to go check out the old Nature Museum in Jerusalem's German Colony. Here...
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Saturday, July 14, 2012

Le quatorze juillet -- Bastille Day

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. Wanting to wish all my blog-friends in France a happy FĂȘte Nationale. But over the years I have already published all the French flags and...
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Friday, July 13, 2012

Jet lag in a highchair

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. It may seem gruesome to some, but my grandkids were interested in looking at the baby skeleton. In this photo for Weekend Reflections you...
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Thursday, July 12, 2012

Trains and planes

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. The 06:43 train leaving Jerusalem, heading into the narrow valley between the mountains. One hour and 45 minutes later it will be in Tel A...
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