A bird in the hand is not worth anything compared to one in the bush -- at least not when you are on a birding trip! However, this is t...

Cats were originally native to the Middle East, and are still viewed here as animals to be respected and well-treated. Semi-tame cats oft...

Little Green Bee Eaters. Eilat, Israel.

Array of salads before grilled meat, restaurant in Eilat. Hotel Breakfast buffet: hot foods such as quiche, shakshuka. Hotel b...

Birding today was beautiful. We watched eagles and other raptors near the Egyptian border, and watched many water birds at sunset in sight...

This morning we visited Sde Boker, a park where David Ben Gurion, one of the founders of Israel, is buried. Nearby is Ein Avdat, a small ...

A Little Owl that we saw on our walk yesterday in the wadi. Another Little Owl, seen today. A different sub-species. After dark, our...

Getting started in the morning.  Butterflies. We were walking in a Wadi where local residents have sheep and use pack animals as t...

We arrived in Tel Aviv early and have a bit of unexpected time here at the Isrotel Tower Hotel. This is the view from the balcony of our ...

"At noontime the next day she made Zach tomato soup from a can and a grilled cheese sandwich. He bent his head close to the bowl and a...

"'American Gothic' is, by a very wide margin, [Grant Wood's] most effective picture—though not his best, for which I no...

"The circle met often. ... Their meetings were as much for pleasure as business. As the years rolled on, they tried to dine at two o...

Today's reading: The Moving Toyshop by Edmund Crispin, first published in 1946. I find this book very funny, almost a send-up of the...

[in Just-] BY  E. E. CUMMINGS in Just-  spring          when the world is mud-  luscious the little  lame balloonman  ...

We are so lucky to have had just a few inches of heavy wet snow, not like in the East where power outages seem to be everywhere!...

This month, Len has been trying bread recipes, especially from Flour Water Salt Yeast by Ken Forkish. I've mentioned Len's brea...