Remnants: Israel

Playing around with monochrome versions of some shots I took in Israel in 2017.

Bedouin boy, Wadi Qelt, West Bank

Students, Safed (Tzfat)

Coptic monks on the roof of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem

Moslem quarter vegetable ladies, Jerusalem 

Donkey, Mitzpe Yeriho, West Bank

Olive seller, Tel Aviv market

Muslim student tourists, Jaffa

Israeli Soldier, Tel Aviv train station

"I pulled into Nazareth...

...feeling about half past dead..." It was the end of our last, hot, day in Israel. We were heading back to the airport from the Sea of Galilee. Armageddon (aka Megiddo) was closed, but Nazareth was on the way. Unfortunately it was the second day of Ramadan, and the old city was closed up tight.

Wilderness: Wadi Qelt

En route to the Dead Sea we stopped to look for the Monastery of St. George.
It wasn't forty days in the wilderness, but still...

The Bedouins were not much help.

We were on foot and did not want to rent this donkey.

Nor this one.

This place was not what we were looking for.

We stumbled across this cache of discarded books.

Among which was this primitive doll.

The goats had the right idea, but there was no shade where we were.

Then we spotted it.  The resident Bedouin trinket-seller was napping.

As close as we got.

Dead Sea

We spent a few hours at the Dead Sea. There was a lot of dead architecture as well.

El-Jazzar Mosque, Acre

We were privileged to be able to enter this mosque, on our walk from the Acre (Akko) old city to the seaside.

Here, local women stream in to the mosque courtyard. That's my son Nick recording the event.

This is a fountain where you wash your feet before entering the mosque.

Prayer mats at the ready.

Note the row of domes on the roof.

Green (Doors of) Acre

Acre, also known as Akko, is an ancient coastal town north of Tel Aviv. I couldn't help noticing how many of the doors were green or grrenish blue.

Shiftless in Jaffa

Jaffa quay

 Old Jaffa

Jaffa flea market