Usually when I write about visits to Jerusalem it’s to a city that looks like this — night over an illuminated, golden old city
Or this- sunset over the windmill of Yemen Moshe.
Not today though. Today, outside the lovely apartment we’re staying in this week – there was
SNOW!!! not a lot of snow by the time we arrived – but enough to leave little piles along the curb, to color gardens and car windshields white and to make it cold, wet and windy. Too wet to even take many photos – but this will give you an idea.
It’s been an eventful day. We had a snowy, foggy ride from Tel Aviv and arrived in Jerusalem to see kids building snowmen with the soggy remains of the storm, people bundled up and damp and, for those who usually visit in prime weather months, a city that was almost unrecognizable.
We spent the afternoon wandering around in the slush, buying groceries and even taking a cozy nap with the storm ranting outside. We had a crazy dinner with our synagogue group in a great kosher Chinese restaurant and now, as soon as I post this, we’ll go to sleep so we can get up and go early to the Western Wall in the morning. I’ll have more to report then.