on a rainy day

it's raining today. right now it feels good and cozy. haven't had cold, rainy weather for so very long. i do hope it's only a short break, though. not sure for how long the sound of the rain on the window, rubber boots and and hot drinks will feel as exotic as it does right now. and if this weather lasts for days we might have to figure out something slightly more entertaining than watching the snails escape the little yellow bowl.

just perfect

i took the boys to visit friends staying in a summer house in northern zealand. they are visiting from hong kong. it was amazing to see how the boys just connected so instantly. they were best friends back in tel aviv a couple of years back.

they said it was a shame with all the sea weed that had washed ashore in the previous days. i said it was absolutely perfect. the beautyful shades and shapes, the smell of the sea, so different from our beach back home. what an amazing day.

denmark - first week

in the garden, beautiful weather, not doing much, but still feeling very full. and not only because we have been eating and drinking all the time. rye bread and cheese, elderflower drink and wine. and strawberry pie.

good evening, good morning

fire just never gets old and boring, does it? and see, those blankets came in handy. not that he needed one. it's still hot. but it feels good to wrap up in one anyway, doesn't it?

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i did this post before leaving israel, but never posted it. so here it is. we're enjoying ourselves in denmark. will get back to you soon on that. wishing you a wonderful new week.

part of the plan

we're in denmark now. cannot get photos out of the camera yet, so just popping by to say hello. and to share these photos i uploaded before leaving.

when i went to the danish embassy back in tel aviv to pick up the new passports of the boys, i shot these. when we'd been there a few weeks before to order the passports the boys had lots of fun looking at this art work in the lobby of the building. it is called "meal", but unfortuntaley i forgot to get the name of the artist.

it reminded me that i need to take the kids more to art museums and exhibitions. cause they loved this, to look at the characters and all the detailed food and table ware. especially that woman in the first photo starring at the fish. and the lonely woman in the corner. they were absolutely stunned.

so that is a part of my holiday plans, to take them to see some art. among many many other things. for now we're still settling in the house and in the garden, though, and that is absolutely wonderful.

oh no, numbers

the word of the week is numbers. i must admit numbers tend to scare me. i was ok at math back in the days, but today i prefer to avoid them whenever possible. numbers are so serious and not negotiable, numbers are bills, dates, deadlines.

but then i was looking at some of my little treasures from nature. i have way too many scattered all over the house and garden. to my defense i must say i really do enjoy them, to look at them, hold them. anyway,  i realized that one of the things that attracts me to them are the repetition, all the little hundreds of hairs making up a feather, the fine lines showing the growth of a sea shell or a snail, and the seeds inside the fruit. it's there all the time, the repetition, the same tiny feature in great, sometimes endless, impossible-to-count numbers. that kind of numbers i like. they are more...organic.

i might have stretched the word too far. find more interpretations of the word numbers via peggy of peggy fussel illustration. and then have a wonderful weekend.

hot summer days

it's so so hot around here. really bad. and we didn't get to the beach the other day, since the car made problems. we went to the pool instead. we live in a moshav, that is, a little community, used to be a farm village. there's a little farming left, but mainly the hobby, small time kind. but it's countryside and besides the kikdergartens (one for the little ones and one for the bigger ones - i have kids in both), there is a moadon (which is a community building), a football field, a synagoge, a playground and even a little library for the kids. and then there is the pool. open from may to october. last year we didn't go at all (both D and i are beach people), but this year we did. i must admit that the boys tend to prefer it from the beach many days. which i kind of understand, because most of their friends are there, and there's a lot of jumping, playing, ice creams and table football. good fun. the good thing about it, from my point of view, is that they are really becoming good swimmers. it's much easier to learn to swim in a pool than it is at the beach. and it's just 5 minutes down the road.

no photos though. i don't have time for cameras when i'm there. at all. they are all over the place, and even if they are pretty responsible in the water, then they are still just little ones. so i'm all alert.

instead some photos from the hot hot garden. and of two blankets i made. yes, it's crazy hot and insane to even think about blankets, but i wanted to do these for a long time. and now was the time, apparently. i think i might subconsciously be dreaming of colder evenings wrapped in blankets on the couch. well, that will not be anytime soon. not here at least, maybe in denmark next week...