Walking around Jerusalem

A bunch of the crosswalk signs have been modified in creative ways. I don't think this is a government sponsored initiative.


As I was taking that last photograph, a car pulled up beside me and the driver and his wife immediately launched into a detailed explanation of why a shot of this building was a more interesting photograph. They wouldn't leave until I promised to take a picture. So, this is the Christian embassy, and it is actually pretty typical of the architecture of our neighborhood, which also has the Italian and Greek embassies and the home of the former mayor of Jerusalem, Ehud Olmert.

Katamon recycles! This is on the corner of our block. In Hebrew: "Paper Only." All of the recycling bins in Jerusalem are painted with various murals depicting flowers, smiling children, etc.


According to the Bible, Israel is "a land of wheat and barley, and grape-vines and fig-trees and pomegranates; a land of olive-trees and date-palms (Deut. 8:8)." Walking down Derech Beit Lechem (Bethlehem Street) last night, we passed trees sprouting pomegranites and figs, growing out of people's yards and hanging over the street. In the picture is an olive tree growing in a public park.