Spring's on the ground!

The irises are quite precocious this year. Today, coming home from work, I saw a white one. They're not usually this early in the year. In addition, these tiny bulbs are blooming, now, too.

Everything's blooming now, since there was rain this winter. There will probably be another couple of rains, and then it will stop for the summer. By the end of the summer, it's brown and dry.

But in the meantime, we're enjoying the beauty.

I know the picture under this looks like a bus stop, but no buses stop here. They put up the bus stop as a "monument" to the public transportation we once enjoyed. They think we'll sit around waiting for rides. I'm not the type to sit around, unless I really can't move.

Strange Erev TU b'Shvat sights

While I was hanging out the wash this morning, I saw a strange sight. It was a purple iris in bloom, rather precocious, weeks before I'd expect it. Of course I had to take its picture.

And while I was out, especially since it's the eve of TU B'Shvat, considered the Holiday of the Trees, symbolized by the almond blossoms, I just had to take a picture of almond blossoms, but my usual tree was bare!

How could it be? An early iris and a late almond, just meters apart? Maybe since that almond tree is slightly higher than that iris? The other irises nearby show no signs of flowers. Rather peculiar, I'd say.

Then I walked back to the sidewalk the iris decorates and saw some almond blossoms in the neighbor's yard.

חג ט"ו בשבט-חג השילוני--שמח

Have a Happy TU B'Shvat--The Shiloh Holiday!

We're celebrating 29 years since we've returned to the Holy City of Shiloh!!