Springtime is the most beautiful time in Jerusalem, everything is blooming. In another month the city will be hot, dusty and browner.
So I revel in the color wherever I see it.
Come on, who doesn’t love a bright pink hollyhock?
Or a beautiful painted wagon full of flowers?
Ten years ago there was one small miserable yarn store in the basement of a building, and Jerusalem doesn’t have many basements, so this was a rare place indeed. Basically sold very cheap yarn. But now, like the flowers there are a number of nice airy stores that sell yarn. There was nice cotton, good acrylic but no wool. In Jerusalem in the winter wool is a very good thing. Who knows maybe in a few more years they’ll have wool.
It is customary to buy some yarn on vacation, souvenir yarn is a wonderful way to remember a trip. I didn’t, I simply didn’t find any yarn that was worth buying. I have such great selection at my local LYS, The Altered Stitch, that buying some cotton just to buy it didn’t make sense.
There are now also plenty of fabric stores, they really reminded me of DTLA, rolls of fabric out on the sidewalk with many more bolts inside. I didn’t even take pictures and I certainly didn’t buy any. 
I have to thank Chris Burden for Urban Lights at LACMA, I know pay attention to lamp posts. The lamp itself was modern and boring, at least the post has the emblem of the city affixed to it.
One can’t talk about Jerusalem without mentioning the cats. A large population of stray cats is probably better than rats. They don’t carry as much disease and they do keep the rodent population down. Although this fellow just appears to be enjoying the good life.
This one is more up to the task, he looks leaner and meaner.
This one is just hunkering down for the night, hoping to just get through the night.
Not all cats are strays, this fellow enjoys the comfort of the Armenian tile store.
And of course there has to be a dog. What a collection of stuff around him, a Seder plate for Passover, a bag with Disney characters and a necklace that I wouldn’t mind owning myself.
One more post about Jerusalem and I will be done, until my next visit.
Leah