Passover Travels

Goodness! I never intended to be away for so long, but you can see from my photos that we've had a busy time. 'Handmade in Israel' was put aside for a week or so, and Passover holidays took over. This little space of mine is normally the place reserved for writing about my handmade work, but a brief deviation is sometimes a good thing, right? I couldn't let the opportunity pass to show you just a handful of the photographs I took during our travels throughout this lovely country of mine over the last couple of weeks. We headed south to the Dead Sea and Qumran, visited a parrot farm and a stunning orchid park north bound, have hiked in a nearby forest where the pine cones were abundant, and driven far south to Beersheva to the Israeli Air Force Museum (for my Dad!). Israel is such a tiny country but it never fails to amaze me how varied the landscape is here. We have been surrounded by lush green plants one day, then swum, well, actually floated, in the salty, muddy waters of the Dead Sea, the lowest point on earth, the next. What a fabulous couple of weeks we have had, and what an amazing country I live in!Just so that I can pretend that this is a craft blog, whilst I was busy running around Israel, Hadass at Spring Colors was busy preparing a lovely Etsy Treasury to honor the birth of a new niece, and I was delighted to find that she included some of my new baby cards in the collection. They can be seen below, on the bottom row, on the right.