The Flower Exhibition

I confess that I am not so good this year at adding to the blog. It isn't that I don't think about it -- I do. And we are doing plenty that is interesting and blog-worthy! But perhaps that's the issue -- we have so much going on these days that we don't have time to sit down and write about it.

But we did go to this fabulous flower exhibition here in Haifa about 10 days ago. We had heard that it was too crowded, that you had to wait in lines for hours, that there was no parking, etc., so I had zero expectations, but we went at 5 in the afternoon on Shabbat afternoon and it was just great. Lots of people but not too many -- no lines. There were nine "pavilions" -- structures that from the outside looked like half a sphere, and within these there were incredible flowers arranged so beautifully that you kind of couldn't believe it. We were there on the last day of the exhibit, but every flower was as fresh as if it were picked that morning. I tried once to write about this and to scatter pictures in the text, but I can't figure out how to do that and make it come out right, so I am just going to publish the pictures below. Enjoy!!! (Well, looks like they are coming out above!)

Pat