things that are peaceful
Things are quiet now; it's amazing how quickly you can shift between modes, normal vs national emergency. This entire week feels like it took dragged on forever, yesterday morning feels like a year ago, and at the same time I feel like I barely blinked and now it's over.
It's thundering outside. Started this afternoon, and three people made the "sounds like a Fajr" joke at the same time, but it started raining, beautiful, strong rain, like it was washing this whole week away, although it's not fair that I can say that, living in Tel Aviv where everything that went on this week barely impacted the fringes of my life, and I have the luxury of being able to put it easily behind. I rushed home after work to pick up my camera and tried to make it back north to photograph some lightning - the sky was going crazy, a loud flashing storm I'm not used to - but by the time I made it back to the north of the city the storm had already escaped up the shore with all of its photo ops. After half an hour of stalking it from afar, I managed to catch a lone rod of baby lightening, and now that I'm back home I'm just going to dump a bunch of photos at you, collected between September and now.
Happy American Thanksgiving. Lots of happymaking posts today. I haven't been commenting on LJ/DW much this -- year -- but I still read regularly and love you all and your posts make me happy. Thanks for being here ♥
I have no idea when this is from, tbh.
A few photos from Rosh Hashana; all Mom's garden
Young unripe pomelas about a month ago, by now picked, consumed and delicious
And lemons from the garden
And these guys. No idea what they are, but they're pretty.
And this girl right here <3
Duvshaniyot, aka "honey-thingies", a pretty made up name for these roasted honeyfied bread balls, which my grandmother makes from her secret family recipe every Rosh Hashana (I don't understand how it can become a family tradition if she insists on keeping it a secret. I'll weasel it out of her someday.)
Tel Aviv beach, 6AM, mid-September. S (one of my best friends, who lives in Baltimore) was visiting; I picked her up from the airport at 4AM, we had breakfast in TA at a 24/7 place, and waited for the US embassy to open so she could pick up documents. The US embassy is right on the beach, about a minute from this place.
Sand still pristine in the morning, all raked like a giant zen sandbox
Sukkot; amidst the hundreds of small festivals taking place during the 1-week vacation (which my private-sector company did not grant), I went to the "International Circus Festival" which was just a few acrobats and jugglers on stages around the hometown, but it was nice.
Fast forward six weeks; two weeks ago we had our first (out of two, including today) rain of the season, which continued overnight; the next day was mostly cleared up but with the kind of leftover winds that kitesurfers dream of.
...and so they had a field day.
(oh look, it's dog!Merlin)
And finally, tonight's one baby little lightening rod:
Just saw a Hulk-sized lightening rod outside my window, I swear the wall just shook.
All week long, the weather's been perfect, teetering between late fall and early summer, and every day I've woken up in the perfect cozy temperature under my comforter and wished I could stay in bed another two hours, and that is exactly what I plan to do tomorrow morning.
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It's thundering outside. Started this afternoon, and three people made the "sounds like a Fajr" joke at the same time, but it started raining, beautiful, strong rain, like it was washing this whole week away, although it's not fair that I can say that, living in Tel Aviv where everything that went on this week barely impacted the fringes of my life, and I have the luxury of being able to put it easily behind. I rushed home after work to pick up my camera and tried to make it back north to photograph some lightning - the sky was going crazy, a loud flashing storm I'm not used to - but by the time I made it back to the north of the city the storm had already escaped up the shore with all of its photo ops. After half an hour of stalking it from afar, I managed to catch a lone rod of baby lightening, and now that I'm back home I'm just going to dump a bunch of photos at you, collected between September and now.
Happy American Thanksgiving. Lots of happymaking posts today. I haven't been commenting on LJ/DW much this -- year -- but I still read regularly and love you all and your posts make me happy. Thanks for being here ♥
I have no idea when this is from, tbh.
A few photos from Rosh Hashana; all Mom's garden
Young unripe pomelas about a month ago, by now picked, consumed and delicious
And lemons from the garden
And these guys. No idea what they are, but they're pretty.
And this girl right here <3
Duvshaniyot, aka "honey-thingies", a pretty made up name for these roasted honeyfied bread balls, which my grandmother makes from her secret family recipe every Rosh Hashana (I don't understand how it can become a family tradition if she insists on keeping it a secret. I'll weasel it out of her someday.)
Tel Aviv beach, 6AM, mid-September. S (one of my best friends, who lives in Baltimore) was visiting; I picked her up from the airport at 4AM, we had breakfast in TA at a 24/7 place, and waited for the US embassy to open so she could pick up documents. The US embassy is right on the beach, about a minute from this place.
Sand still pristine in the morning, all raked like a giant zen sandbox
Sukkot; amidst the hundreds of small festivals taking place during the 1-week vacation (which my private-sector company did not grant), I went to the "International Circus Festival" which was just a few acrobats and jugglers on stages around the hometown, but it was nice.
Fast forward six weeks; two weeks ago we had our first (out of two, including today) rain of the season, which continued overnight; the next day was mostly cleared up but with the kind of leftover winds that kitesurfers dream of.
...and so they had a field day.
(oh look, it's dog!Merlin)
And finally, tonight's one baby little lightening rod:
Just saw a Hulk-sized lightening rod outside my window, I swear the wall just shook.
All week long, the weather's been perfect, teetering between late fall and early summer, and every day I've woken up in the perfect cozy temperature under my comforter and wished I could stay in bed another two hours, and that is exactly what I plan to do tomorrow morning.
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