Happy New Year!

Blue Skies over Tabgha



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Blue skies, and a teasing glimpse of an olive branch, over the Church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and the Fishes at Tabgha.

Best wishes for a happy, healthy and peaceful new year.

Visit Skywatch Friday for more skies from around the world.

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Who Me?

I'm not sure whether you'd call what this resident of the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo is sitting in a door or a window but his expression as he was doing it cracked me up. (And since I know you're going to ask, no, this Black-Gold Howler Monkey is neither in the Bible nor native to this area - he's native to the rainforests of central South America. The "Biblical" section of the Zoo is just one exhibit, the rest has animals from all over the world.)

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Fish at the Church of the Multiplication

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Isn't this a lovely and fitting way to mark the location of the miracle of the loaves and the fishes? This little fishpond stands in the courtyard of the Church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and the Fishes in Tabgha on the shores of the beautiful Sea of Galilee, right underneath a knarled old olive tree (click the link above for a glimpse of the tree in the courtyard).

And of course, the fish are red.

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Merry Christmas

Best wishes for a very merry Christmas

to all who are celebrating.

(There should have been a photo of some sort here but we took advantage of a gorgeous day to head for the Jerusalem Zoo, ended up out to dinner afterwards, and then I promptly fell asleep on (the old version of) Alice in Wonderland during Family Movie Night. Oops. Better luck next year. I'd guess all those celebrating are going to be too busy to see this anyway.)

Arch and Olive

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The knarled old olive tree you see through this arched window stands in the courtyard of the Church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and the Fishes in Tabgha, on the shores of the Sea of Galilee.

Inside the Church is a large rock, venerated since ancient times, that is believed to be the one upon which Jesus placed the bread and the fish when he fed the 5,000.

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