Jerusalem Hills daily photo

. On the corner of the old building in Tel Aviv's old Florentine neighborhood,  a clever someone glued a strip of carpeting and call...

. Luckily for me,   City Daily Photo bloggers have a Theme Day today on "Out of focus." Our bus seemed to be having a race w...

. Usually if I have to travel to Tel Aviv I take the train; but this time I was on a bus, taking pictures of the speeding trains.  ...

. Guardian of the threshold? A cat sits atop the gate next to a church in old Jaffa. Immanuel Church was built in 1904 in Jaffa...

. P is for painting. And inside the painter's workshop--the Little Prince!  Seen on Wednesday in Tel Aviv's old and picturesq...

. One of the vintage 1985 houses on my street is getting a thorough redo.  Yesterday afternoon a cement mixer truck and this red extra...

. I've seen meat stamps on beef before, but this is a first to see "kosher" hand -written on my falsch fillet! .

. It is date season and Meitar's many date palms are getting heavy with fruit.  See more of our town's tall and short date ...

. Seen at a Tel Aviv train station.  Something new -- recycling bins for metal and plastic drink containers now have big fat padlocks. ...

. Coming . . . and going.  The Ayalon freeway through Tel Aviv is always crowded (except on Yom Kippur when no one drives). On ...

. City Daily Photo bloggers group is posting today on the theme ABANDONED. Today on Mount Herzl we buried Shimon Peres and I, and I d...

. More scenes from our Scouts' big "happening." Visitor kids got to mix a handful of flour with some water, and the S...

. Making jewelry with beads. Hmm, why are the letters in English, not Hebrew?  It was a popular activity at our recent Scouts Happ...

. Something I had never seen (not having been part of any of the youth movements when I grew up in the US). The Scouts lashed toget...

. For ABC Wednesday ,    K is for kosher cotton candy.  In Hebrew it is called "grandmother's hair." Our Meitar ...

. The moon gets so big so quickly, no? This picture of the crescent moon with some planet under it is from just two weeks ago, and toni...

. Just before school opened on Sept. 1, this man was putting up a new "window-dressing" on the glass front of a local shop. ...

. Old apartment buildings like this in Beer Sheva are known as "batei rakevet," literally, "railway houses," becaus...

. Last week these prefabs were trucked into Meitar through streets that were blocked off to traffic. Slowly slowly a crane set them dow...

. Happy International Cat Day. This is a favorite memory of a cat drinking from a rock. It was a rainy day in March at the tomb of the...