Went to Kibbutz Tzuba for an overnight:
Saw the lovely Ma'ayan or Natural Spring
Went to the Stalactite Caves
and
and then talked to a giraffe at the Biblical Zoo
It was lovely.
Went to the Jerusalem Stalactite Caves and Biblical Zoo
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judih
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Went to the Jerusalem Stalactite Caves and Biblical Zoo
My teacher trip was delicious.
Went to Kibbutz Tzuba for an overnight:
Saw the lovely Ma'ayan or Natural Spring
Went to the Stalactite Caves
and
and then talked to a giraffe at the Biblical Zoo
It was lovely.
Went to Kibbutz Tzuba for an overnight:
Saw the lovely Ma'ayan or Natural Spring
Went to the Stalactite Caves
andand then talked to a giraffe at the Biblical Zoo
It was lovely.
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The expression on the giraffe's face is priceless!!!! 
Great pics!!!!
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judih
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hi dave and cecil.
the shadow figure is me.
Kibbutz Tsuba is just half an hour from Jerusalem
and about an hour from Nir-Oz. (the country's tiny, afterall) But the climate is very different. It's a few degrees cooler in the summer - much colder in the winter. Snow in Jerusalem usually happens at least once a year. There's more rainfall and as you can see, the terrain is lush compared to anything around where i live.
The caves are in Beit Shemesh, about 1/2 hour from Jerusalem.
I've lived here now since '78 and never saw that kibbutz, the caves nor the zoo.
So close and yet so far when my own life is so intensely wrapped up in my immediate locale.
Pictures of nir-oz present another story. No natural springs, everything needs to be irrigated. It's desert and i get dry just thinking about walking to school this morning. Cheers, time for a glass of water.
the shadow figure is me.
Kibbutz Tsuba is just half an hour from Jerusalem
and about an hour from Nir-Oz. (the country's tiny, afterall) But the climate is very different. It's a few degrees cooler in the summer - much colder in the winter. Snow in Jerusalem usually happens at least once a year. There's more rainfall and as you can see, the terrain is lush compared to anything around where i live.
The caves are in Beit Shemesh, about 1/2 hour from Jerusalem.
I've lived here now since '78 and never saw that kibbutz, the caves nor the zoo.
So close and yet so far when my own life is so intensely wrapped up in my immediate locale.
Pictures of nir-oz present another story. No natural springs, everything needs to be irrigated. It's desert and i get dry just thinking about walking to school this morning. Cheers, time for a glass of water.
you're a heck of a shadow figure, girl! 
your kibbutz sounds as dry as our own area... a whopping 34/100 of an inch or rain (so far) this year... humidity: 4-9% normally. of course, our region is included in a much larger area that has been recently called a severe drought area. life goes on...
re: "I've lived here now since '78 and never saw that kibbutz, the caves nor the zoo.
So close and yet so far when my own life is so intensely wrapped up in my immediate locale" odd about the distances... so close but yet so far. it must be something in our human nature that keeps us away from our immediate environment and causes us to go greater distances to 'see what is over there' but knowing so little about the 'here' where we have our homes.
your kibbutz sounds as dry as our own area... a whopping 34/100 of an inch or rain (so far) this year... humidity: 4-9% normally. of course, our region is included in a much larger area that has been recently called a severe drought area. life goes on...
re: "I've lived here now since '78 and never saw that kibbutz, the caves nor the zoo.
So close and yet so far when my own life is so intensely wrapped up in my immediate locale" odd about the distances... so close but yet so far. it must be something in our human nature that keeps us away from our immediate environment and causes us to go greater distances to 'see what is over there' but knowing so little about the 'here' where we have our homes.
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sharing sparkles
memorized resplendence
scrolling up and down
chatoyand marbles
rolling around and around
cat's eyes
reflecting deserts and oases
winds, sands, and ponds
glint, glitter, glisten
listen
as murmuring facts become
twinkling taw fantasies
(i have never been to either of these places, ju. strangely, i have never even heard of them (though i'm having a vague memory of something like a zoo on the city's map, somewhere north of the central bus station...))
memorized resplendence
scrolling up and down
chatoyand marbles
rolling around and around
cat's eyes
reflecting deserts and oases
winds, sands, and ponds
glint, glitter, glisten
listen
as murmuring facts become
twinkling taw fantasies
(i have never been to either of these places, ju. strangely, i have never even heard of them (though i'm having a vague memory of something like a zoo on the city's map, somewhere north of the central bus station...))