Jerusalem Hills daily photo

. Start your morning here with  a cup of hot strong Greek coffee. Listen to the birds sing in the several aviaries.  Say Kalimera! --...

. The crow on a wall of  the Israel Museum Art Garden. I guess he couldn't read the sign "Please do not climb."  . ...

. Off in the Russian books corner, in a sweet little cafe setting, young kids found one place to enjoy themselves at Jerusalem's rec...

. "Want to try the ElliptiGO?" the nice young man asked. "Uhh, I'd rather just take pictures, like with YOU on it,...

. While at the Israel Museum for yesterday's Purim celebrations , I took some time to get away from it all, walking down to the quie...

. I went into Jerusalem today in search of Shushan Purim pictures. Entertainers were juggling and clowning at the tram station near the Ce...

. (All photos can be much enlarged)  I first heard of Nimrod at the archaeology exhibition called "The Early Years, The 70th Anni...

. Be sure to enlarge this one! (you know, one click, then another) Every year at this time, Megillat Esther is unrolled and read out...

. Purim is on Sunday, and Shushan Purim will be celebrated in Jerusalem on Monday.  But the entire Hebrew month of Adar is meant to...

.   In contrast to the wild almond trees that are currently full of white blossoms, the old fig tree stands, branches exposed. Not ...

. For fun, enlarge the photo and guess what the flotilla is fashioned from. (Yes, it's  ABC Wednesday F -Day.) I saw this at the...

. I wish the white almond blossoms in our Jerusalem Hills would stay forever.  You can enlarge the pictures with a click and then an...

. Which strikes your fancy more--the refined style of artistic leather binding or the back-to-nature earthy binding? Both were disp...

. The window is reflected in the showcase and also on the glass floor. In the display case are Roman roof tiles stamped LXFRE.  Th...

. In  winter season Israel's trees are either green (those who do not shed leaves) or they are bare (like the fig) or they have no l...

. Our skies were grey this week. As I waited for the tram on Jaffa Street, near the Central Bus Station, I looked up and realized that...

. Two cupids fighting over a heart  ca. 1780 Jean-Baptiste Pigalle,  French 1714-1785 Marble Israel Museum . Oi, is that hea...

.  There was some lively singing and Ethiopian shoulder-shaking dancing going on this afternoon at the Jerusalem International Book Fair...

. So! Pope Benedict XVI is leaving the Chair of Peter! Here in my photo he is leaving the gold and red chair on stage after celebratin...

.   From the top of Mount Tabor you can see in all four directions. The fertile Jezreel Valley lies below.  In Christian tradition ...