Almond trees, poppies, and cyclamen

The train ride from Jerusalem to Bet Shemesh has always been beautiful, but last Tuesday with the almond trees in bloom along the valley, sometimes below us, sometimes right outside the windows, it was spectacular. In places, with the green groundcover, they formed an eastern carpet beyond the ability of the best weaver or knotter. Really good eyes could see the paler cyclamen.

Today green laced almond-blossom white.

To think, all that beauty and almonds, too.

Copyright 2013, Jane Schulzinger Fox