It’s been a busy trip, and I’m sorry I haven’t been able to blog more while here; I have a lot to say, however, and hope to get some of it up before my return at week’s end to the temporarily empty Mead Manor. But since a picture is worth a thousand words, I figured I could redeem myself for the recent blog silence by posting a few thousand words’ worth of photos from here in the Holy Land.
The Dome of the Rock.
The Sea of Galilee, from the Golan Heights.
The tunnels under the Muslim Quarter along the Western Wall.
The old Arab city of Joffa, where wedding parties often come for their photo shoots. We saw half a dozen or more brides in a two hour stroll.
The remarkable Nick Mead and an unidentifiable ruffian in an abandoned Syrian bunker on the Golan Heights.
Major General Natalio C. Ecarma, the commander of the UN peacekeepers in the Golan Heights.
The sycamore tree in Jericho which Zacchaeus the tax collector climbed to see Jesus over the crowd — or so the guidebooks say.