Releasing myself

As I left around 07:00 a.m. it was pretty cool. Was sorry I had only dressed jeans and T-shirt and not brought the sweatshirt with me I was contemplating to wear.

The birds were talking loudly this morning. Especially noticeable due to the second Holiday-day of Pesach today because of which, I guess, people were sleeping late. It was gorgeous. The streets practically empty, the birds were hoovering above my head (and one Palestinian Sunbird even placed himself on a tree-branch right opposite me in order to start to chat to me about something only he can probably understand - *obviously I didn't make a photo of it since by the mere look at my camera birds fly away with a speed faster than light* - and another of that same very elusive species of birds singing a loud and bright song just 1 meter above my head) and their presence was actually FELT by me :-) (because so many of them hide so well you can only hear them but not see).

Various photos taken today underneath (with capture). But I must say I am disappointed the PR ranking of my blog went down from 3/10 to 2/10 :-( Just because it isn't world news or an educational blog it is less 'interesting'?

Nevermind :D Blow them.

Photo-time:

A tree not having a single leaf on him but drowning in flower-buds:


It's flower buds from close-up:


I picked one of those up to see how it felt like and the touch is like touching wood:


Here they are growing on the tree(s):


A very special tree - because it has very special (and extra-ordinary) leaves:


Those leaves from close-up, don't they look like little hearts have been drawn on them?


Finally arriving at Fairytaletree I saw that the ground around him was covered in the leaves he dropped - like a smooth carpet around him... But, he is looking so skinny now :( I really hope he's OK:


There were several of his gorgeous passionate looking flowers growing on him though and many flower buds were around it as well - eventhough his branches looked devastating:


There were SO many (flower) buds on the bushes and trees... It was very uplifting to see and a great privilege to experience (because I take the time to stand still and actually enjoy from it) -
This is a Jasmine and a Jasmine bud where I stuck my nose in to inhale its exquisite perfume:


And, just near it, I saw this itchi-bithcy-tiny-weeny spider web:


Finally a photo of the reason for my early morning escapes: The Sea. He was moderately wild today. He was looking grey and angry and I spotted no fish whatsoever - Can he be angry at us because Israel is poluting him time after time again so even I have the feeling that they should hang the ones responsible for that?


The last photo is of an experiment I am undertaking. I bought Clementina's in order to plant their pits and grow a 'tree'. Unfortunately Murphy -my twin sis- was visiting me again and although I always choke on the amount of pits in either oranges or clementina's - this time OF COURSE because I wanted to obtain pits... there were only 6 pits in the two Clementina's I had bought for planting purposes, GRRRRRR! The soil is clay/sand from the garden downstairs I 'stole':