Jerusalem Hills daily photo

. A heavy post for this ABC Wednesday , but today H is for horrible hooliganism. Hateful messages were spray-painted on these walls before t...

. After a summer break Psalm Challenge , led by Robert Geiss of daily athens photo, is starting up again! This would be a good chance for...

. City Daily Photo's theme today is "people-watching." Oi, what to do? -- normally I am reluctant to point a camera at strange...

. A full moon rises over the Jerusalem Hills Neil Armstrong will be buried in Cincinnati on Friday, the day of the full moon. . The statemen...

. Two months ago Jerusalem's Montefiore windmill was all wrapped up and minus its dome. Next to it parts were waiting to be put up--gear...

. Google had a special logo today for the first day of school in Israel. . For the first time ever, school started in August instead of on S...

. Today, on the calendar of the Armenian Orthodox, the Assumption of the Virgin Mary is celebrated. . We came here, to visit the Church o...

. As our poor taxi sputtered and strained to get up the steep incline of the narrow roads to the peak of Mount of Olives, the tourist came...

. My two visitors and I went up to the top of the Mount of Olives for the panoramic view! There were even a few clouds on the western horizo...

. My dear daughter contemplating the wonders of fetal growth at Jerusalem's Nature Museum. . I was reminded of this picture by today...

. During this hot Jerusalem summer, with every day in the 30s C, I envy the dome of the Shrine of the Book (of Dead Sea Scrolls fame) whi...

. F is for fountain, the Lion Fountain ! Finally--a photo of the water without any kids playing inside. It was 8:40 Sunday morning, too earl...

. The Ethiopian Orthodox Christians were at Sunday worship when we passed their church on Prophets Street early this Sunday morning, and t...

. At Capernaum, the alpha and omega theme of the railing is reflected in the modern church's glass floor. Also visible through the g...

. Fun in the sun under a clear blue SkyWatch Friday sky. Kids whose families can't afford a real swimming pool play in Jerusalem's ...

. For today's Feast of the Assumption I took my visiting American friends to the Dormition Abbey on Mt. Zion. We were greeted by the joy...

. E is for Ein Kerem, the beautiful village in the hill country of Judea, known as the birthplace of John the Baptist. . In the photo, An...

. A few beautiful old fishing boats in the little harbor of Kibbutz Ein Gev on the eastern shore of the Sea of Galilee. . The photo is fre...

. These cute little girls waved at us just after we entered the New Gate into the Christian Quarter of the Old City. Nice how they see a hom...

. Something new in the quiet gardens of the Sisters of Zion in Ein Kerem! Is it not a wonderful way to give a tree a new purpose in life? .