Those puffs of white and pink?
Yes!--they are almond blossoms!
The trees on the mountain are starting to bloom.
Click once or twice on the photo and feast your eyes.
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Covered in snow.
You can't help but love the Jerusalem Hills.
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(A post for Our World Tuesday.)
I love almond blossom. It reminds us of good smells, floral beauty and coming warmth. But the hills are so rocky.. how do the trees survive?
ReplyDeleteOh, I wish we had something blooming here.
ReplyDeleteLovely...just lovely! I always enjoy your photos!
ReplyDeleteThat's lovely although I'm not ready for spring. I want REAL winter, not mild, rainy days.
ReplyDeleteHelen, the rock walls of the ancient agricultural terraces are all over the Jerusalem Hills. Actually there is soil on each small level place that the terraces create.
ReplyDeleteIf you twice enlarge the photos you can see a house. One family lives there many years on the mountain. They try to recreate the irrigation and growing methods of biblical times, with olive trees etc.
Thousands of years ago the hills surrounding Jerusalem grew most of the food needed for the throngs of Jews who went up to Jerusalem for the three yearly pilgrimage festivals.
Almond blossom already - how beautiful.
ReplyDeleteFriends, the wild almonds trees are the first to blossom, it is a normal mid-winter thing in Israel. Usually it is around the holiday of Tu BiShvat, the birthday or New Year of the Trees. See
ReplyDeletehttp://jerusalemhillsdailyphoto.blogspot.co.il/search/label/Tu%20BiShvat
i'd love to see wild almond blossoms. amazing it can grow on rocks.
ReplyDeleteSo pretty! I've never seen almond blossom before.
ReplyDeleteHappy Tuesday!
Today here looks like spring, but I can't really see anything blooming yet...
ReplyDeleteI look at the beautiful light in the middle of the first picture. Great! And I wish I was there..
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