Contradictions....

Heading out to the office I used to work in and where my lawyer is situated to ask some questions (which I of course didn't even get the chance to ask when I arrived there) - and swaying between the crushing fright of my uncertain future and the ultimately gorgeous 'here-and-now' moments I experience InRealTime, I photographed a few of the probably thousands of wonderful things surrounding us that normally seem to hide behind the daily routines ....

Here are the things I immensely enjoyed from today - watch it through my eyes:

1) photos 1, 2 & 3: look at him :D (sooo sweet) sitting there on the concrete banks of the Yarkon river, a Shag - just having dived in that river to chase after fish and now sitting still - his wings spread out in order to dry himself in the wind - as a human being spreading his arms in order to get his arm-pits dried.

2) photos 4 & 5: a bird looking like a "Vlaamse Gaai" - who I've seen only once when in the Netherlands for only a few seconds - came flying to this spot as well. After I took the photo and watched it - he more looks like a duck BUT ducks don't stand that tall on their feet and.... don't 'soar' in the air as he (and his friend - as in photo 5) hopefully demonstrate.

3) photos 6, 7, 8 & 9: Powderpuffs.... They look as if they are rather prickly - but they are sooooo soft. If you touch them with your fingertips you don't feel anything at all, that's how soft they are. See how it's facing the sun - enjoying his (short) life, taking out of 'the moment' what is in there... It's a tree that reminds mostly of desert trees (shape as if a stone fell on them) but their beautiful flowers have more in it than standing up to a dry atmosphere, it holds a color of delicacy, of pureness of softness that answers harsh conditions without letting those dictate them to be harsh as well.

4) photo 10: the kitties -of whom there are so many close to that tunnel near the T.A. Arlozorov railway station- eating from the catfood I distributed after seeing how frustrated a kitty got from not being able to catch a pigeon she had her eye on. As soon as I spread out the catfood her sisters and brothers came out of the bush-bush there. Food, Man! Survival....

5) photos 11 & 12: on my way back from the unsuccessful mission at my lawyer's and at the other side of the road - the dazzling contradiction between the completely dried up (forbidden to water gardens in Israel now) and leafless tree while it is growing the most dauntless, bright and vivid colored flowers in it at the same time.














update: the 'duck' turned out to be an Egyptian Goose (Alopochen aegyptiacus)