Church of the Holy Sepulchre - Jerusalem, Israel

The church is said to be where Christ was crucified, buried and resurrected - a phenomenal history in an extraordinary building.

A bench sits just inside the entrance where there is always a visitor resting, waiting for a friend or maybe just waiting to be found.

Wine Barrels - Sarona, Tel Aviv

Once the wine cellar of the historic Templar district of Tel Aviv, this large hall was used to construct airplanes for the War of Independence (1948). Are you wondering how they got the airplanes out?

(Apologies, but I couldn't resist applying the watercolor filter.)

Shesh-Besh in Shook Mahane Yehuda - Jerusalem

It's almost never a simple question of black and white. Is it?

Kibbutz - Israel (where else?)

"It was good and good that it was..."

A Walk in the Hills - Israel

John Muir said that he never saw a discontented tree,
but I think that this one would be happy to make the move to Central Park.

Step right up and ye shall find - Jerusalem

Jaffa Flea Market with Hobby Horse

To the first of my friends who got married after college I gave a hand-made wooden rocking horse which initially served as a useful piece of furniture in the young couple's apartment and then hopefully went on to become a source of imaginary flight for their kids.