New beginnings

I was almost bursting. I just HAD to go on route to the sea. And finally.... this morning I set off and never felt better when passing the familiar, but ever changing, sites on my route ... Been in Barcelona last week and didn't feel the urge to take as many photos as I did today during my walk. Also, in Barcelona I felt more attracted to photographing the more 'meaningless' than the usual tourist attractions. The Sagrada Familia cathedral was very beautiful but..... the seagull hoovering over my head there whose wings were silver lined by the sun and its tips were almost transparent caught my heart and admiration much, much more ...

Today I noticed spring has hesitantly arrived in the form of so many new blooms and flower buds. The bottlebrush tree stood there radiating -exhilarationously - with his passion colored, terribly beautiful flowers [photo 1].

Following are photos of more flowers either in bloom or their bushes having buds [photos 2 - 8].

Photo 9 is of a flower blooming at Fairytaletree. He looks so slim now, so skinny without the leaves that he dropped :( But I noticed many new leaves and also many buds.... I think the buds can also be seen at this photo.

I met Ms.Cat while she was sleeping. I called her and she sat up but her eyes were dropping shut all the time :D LOL. Must have had a wild night, hahaha.... [photo 10]. We walked some around the pond together and I could have pulled the hair out of my head for being so stupid forgetting the cat-food at home which I specially bought for her :-(

Mr. Egret was standing there showing off his beautiful feathers. I read that they (Egrets) got hunted for those special feathers once in history.... So happy that this 'fashion' had passed. Poor things ending up on the hat of a lady :-(

I heard about it but was still surprised when I saw it at the Nemaal: the studio from which Channel 24 (Mizrahi songs) is transmitting for the next 24 days. [photo 11]. Not much to see about it though. I have it on now on my t.v. but still: I have no clue as to why they are doing this...

The sea himself (the reason for my walks) [photo 12], was rather wild.... But, the most beautiful thing on earth as usual...

And then... on my way back and towards Shuk HaCarmel I saw 'it'. I looked down from the promenade and thought I didn't see well. I never saw a large shell like this [photo 13] before. Not here, in Israel, nor anywhere else IRL. I stepped down and made some photos of it and, in the end, I took one of them (there were a few) with me - and it is sitting on a shelf here in my new home now ;)
[photos 13, 14 & 15]

Later on I saw the filming of a scene of a movie on the beach [photo 16] and something that made me laugh, it being a bike without a wheel but firmly locked :D [photo 17].

The last thing I photographed before entering Shuk HaCarmel (which always lifts my mood) is the window of a building that is meant as a meeting place for the jews originating from Aleppo. I walked around there a thousand times and never saw this building - just shows how I can discover new things even after thinking I know 'it all' ;-) [photo 18]




















Edit: the shell turns out to be the back of a Dionon. (Cuttlefish).