blue morning glory
Originally uploaded by nostalgist
Sunday, September 28, 2008
benjamin reading
benjamin reading
Originally uploaded by nostalgist
So there is this moment in Augustine's Confessions when he watches Ambrose reading and is amazed because Ambrose is reading silently. This is something utterly new and critics have called it a crucial moment in the history of privacy and subjectivity etc. etc. Well Benjamin is there! He sat down and read this whole book to himself two days ago, and he didn't even move his lips and only needed help on names like "George Lancaster" (it's a British children's book called Pat and the Puzzle Parcels"). And now Lev has caught on to this and says "Watch me count inside my head" and stands there with this funny concentrating expression on his face as if he was performing some magic trick - which, after all, it is.
Thursday, September 25, 2008
pomegranate
pomegranate
Originally uploaded by nostalgist
In Machaneh Yehuda. Happy Rosh Hashana - may your new year be as succulent, myriad and provocatively tart as a pomegranate!
construction site, Jerusalem
construction site, Jerusalem
Originally uploaded by nostalgist
There is construction, everywhere and always, and you can just wander onto the sites. This is right by Lev's daycare in the YMCA. There are also occasionally unclaimed fallow plots of land, desolate and abandoned. But if anybody could resolve who they belonged to, they'd be condo projects tomorrow.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Sunday, September 21, 2008
sand castles
sand castles
Originally uploaded by nostalgist
Lev and Benjamin made sand castles but mostly body surfed with me and Jeremy and their friend Noa. We must have done it for hours. Benjamin said, "You could only have an adventure like this at the ocean!" Lev said, "The pool at my school does not look like this!"
ice cream
ice cream
Originally uploaded by nostalgist
We went to Netanya over the weekend. Oh, it was glorious. Lev almost fell asleep eating his ice cream.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
dancers, old city walls
dancers, old city walls
Originally uploaded by nostalgist
Walking out of the tower of David museum, these dancers (German?) were doing a short routine on the old city walls for no audience. It's quite a drop on the other side of the wall.
Sunday, September 14, 2008
park aleph bet
park aleph bet
Originally uploaded by nostalgist
I should have embedded a message in this before I photographed it - find your own.
benjamin
benjamin
Originally uploaded by nostalgist
Benjamin on the way home from school today, after a stop at the ice cream store and the library.
Friday, September 12, 2008
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Lev asleep
Lev asleep
Originally uploaded by nostalgist
Lev fell asleep on the long walk home from daycare so I stopped in a cafe, sat in the courtyard, and drank iced coffee while he slept, first in the stroller and then on me.
mausoleum ghost
mausoleum ghost
Originally uploaded by nostalgist
This is in Mamilla graveyard - the strange, half-abandoned, semi-apocalyptic muslim graveyard on the edge of downtown.
lev
lev
Originally uploaded by nostalgist
Lev made a ramadan lamp in daycare today. He decided it was a glove for a superhero called "fireblaster". Here he is in character.
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
lev and fountain
lev and fountain
Originally uploaded by nostalgist
Lev played in the lion fountain in the park after daycare and got very wet.
night out the window
night out the window
Originally uploaded by nostalgist
The view out the window at night - if you stand on the bed and lean out over the clothesline.
on the promenade
on the promenade
Originally uploaded by nostalgist
I walked Lev home along the promenade - it was lovely but impractical, since at the end there are a lot of steps. He fell asleep on the way and I sat on a bench and read until he woke up. The promenade smells of thyme and oregano and is so quiet - all you hear is birdsong and occasional footsteps.
Sunday, September 7, 2008
coffee glows with its own light
coffee glows with its own light
Originally uploaded by nostalgist
I didn't bring my camera to the YMCA this morning so I took this on my Mac. So far, the best cappuccino in the city.
Friday, September 5, 2008
disco crocs
disco crocs
Originally uploaded by nostalgist
I think Debbie named these the disco crocs, because they're silver. They smell but can be washed easily. When I took them off Lev last night he wrinkled up his face and said in a panic- I can smell my feet! He still has hardly any ankles.
lev in the green tunnel
lev in the green tunnel
Originally uploaded by nostalgist
This is Lev in the green tunnel in gan ha'paamon where we played superheroes after daycare in the blistering heat. I didn't manipulate the picture - the tunnel (and maybe the heat) turned him green.
name this flower
name this flower
Originally uploaded by nostalgist
And satisfy Jeremy's curiosity. It's quite small and grows on a vine. Any ideas? My favorite is still probably the bougainvillea, because the flowers look like leaves or butterflies and show through light like paper, and after those the very deep blue morning glories, but these are also lovely.
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
capoeira
IMG_4771
Originally uploaded by nostalgist
Benjamin tried capoeira at the community centre and loved it - here he is trying wheel pose. In Hebrew a cartwheel is a galgalit.
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
balloons
balloons
Originally uploaded by nostalgist
They released a squadron of balloons at Ben's school to celebrate the first day.
lev asleep
lev asleep
Originally uploaded by nostalgist
Lev is barely napping, but he was so tired the other day he fell asleep eating his snack. The picture was taken after I put him into bed.
security at the school
security at the school
Originally uploaded by nostalgist
The president of Israel came to Ben's school on the first day. There were a lot of these men in gray standing around with their very big guns. Ben said that the president was nice and very old.
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