cousins Shmuel and Esti

 

Debbie and Shmuel

 

shmuel

 

chief bottle washer

 

filling bottles

 

Merlot bottled labelled and ready for sale!

 

Merlot flyer

 

Esther Tova

 

Yehudit

 

Chayim Elazar leaves tomorrow for the east

 

fat raindrops on thursday sukkot

 

the new Chardonnay

 

a bit of the new Merlot in a glass

 

Mazal Tov!!

 

Mazal Tov! Tamar and George's baby girl

 

VIDEO NK Ch and Sa. Color really off!

Chardonnay flower - the white spots are sulfur

 

Chardonnay flowers

 

suprise

This blog was just chosen as #4 of
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wow!

Merlot flower cluster and new leaf

NK Chardonnay top terrace

NK Chardonnay middle terrace

NK Ch 'jungle'

NK Ch 'jungle'

AK Ch1 w/Me in the background

short toed eagle

NK Ch jungle

AK Chardonnay today

chardonnay flower buds

rainy foggy issru chag

winter's green

winter's flowers in the vineyard

After Earth we came...

Texas

and moonview

I would not choose to live there, TX

Lake Merideth, TX

Shore of Lake Merideth, TX

Lyons, TX

We stopped for the Post Office in Somerville, TX and I went for a stroll down...

hoping you can read this, try clicking on the pic; and across the street- Walmart

this tree designated as a heritage tree!

south carolina

really?

home of the famous shorter temper!

only Chaim missing

cloud phenomenon

vineyard rainbow

Colchicum steveni / Sitvaniyot in Kerem

mazal tov

cover of latest issue of local mag

city?

ho ho ho

Pacific NW /Tolmie SP, WA

racoon ? at the beach

driftwood

driftwood above high tide line

Tolmie State Park, WA

oregon clouds

mount hood

california!

babies growing!

how I fight the weeds

egged seat back

my mom, yr.?

my brothers- homer

barry

shmuel

coming soon- Welcome to The Temple!

the company i'd like to own

no comment

my kind of town, TX

Starvation Peak, off the sante fe trail NM

Reuven and Gershon leave Early

snow today

snow today

down the road on a recent morn

Nubian Ibex in Ein Gedi (see Psalms 104:18)

view on today's bike ride

Most of the family and Shmuel, Alon and Karen!

Nachal Pratzim / wall detail

into the press

Chardonnay at the winery

a nest in the jungle

Chardonnay harvest

a bucket of Chardonnay

merlot at the winery after weighing

merlot at the winery

at the nursery, with 500,000 baby vines

Yoav and Yochanan dig holes

by Yoav the blade breaks, not the handle!

first ones planted

now, GROW !

JCB digs trench to bury irrigation line

4 kilometers of dripline and feeder pipeline

baznatim before

bobcat / during

after

Chardonnay view

Chardonnay on the way!

today's view, first flowers, fresh growth, flower cluster

my workplace this week

fringe benefits while working in the winter

new family portrait

  

new vineyard sign

  

new vineyard

  

mom and bobie 1966

  

the ironing board pic

  

bobie with her sisters, year?

  

my mom's funeral

  

hesped

  

choosing esrogim

  

Merlot, lots of fruit! The white spots are from sulfur spray

through the eyepiece of the field refractometer, in Brix, we see that the grape's juice is getting sweeter!

baby lebovitz, grandson

little bird nest in the Chardonnay jungle

Wild Sauvignon blanc growth, after spring problems, but not much fruit.

veraison

I love the color!

Surveyors at work, today!

the results, fruit get sun and air instead of still, damp environment conducive to powdery mildew, etc. Seems also that canopy reduction is minimal.

the new spring with upper wires

the Holy Kotel on Monday

Work starts on the new vineyard, thank G-d!
The 'goldilocks' bulldozer- not too small, so it can do the job well, not too large, so it doesn't damage the soil, just right for the job!

Jan and Neil Rauch in the ruins of the Arbel Synagogue

the Ovalle Family, Reuven and Gershon in Chevron

Bet Guvrin Wildflowers

Ein Gedi Hyrax

Sunrise Over the Dead Sea

early almond blossoms on a rainy day

strange winter, early flowers

herbal bouquet

a few pics from my trip to the old country

hull ma

cousin jennifer

cousin sandy

without the ironing board

no access to the Hollywood sign

machtesh ramon from har ardon

tamar

Chag Sameach!!!

Elisheva and Tzippora

debbie and shevie in the sukka

Happy Birthday Debbie!

after driving through arab blockade

tel aviv beach

sunrise visitor

Merlot harvest, Abu Kleb

Dvora and AA

Savta holding a double cluster

Me2 Abu Kleb

yochanan

at the winery

nice hat, george!

nice face, yoav!

Chizkiyahu's wet tunnel

Ma'arat A'lma

by Yonaton ben Uziel

Chardonnay jungle after opening large window

satisfied sauvignon

even young merlot heavy with fruit

lots of fruit!

Bell Cave, Beit Guvrin

texture revisited

one of the nicer groups lately, by Abbaye and Rova

bamboo for the babies to climb up

veraison

freshly planted

Due to technical circumstances beyond my control I've been unable to upload pics for more than a month now. One of these days...

yehudit

Chag Sameach!

chardonnay growing

Avraham Abba in uniform!

Chardonnay berries

new leaves

flowers and fruit

Ronnie the fireman at work in vineyard!

chardonnay flowers

strange brew- AACT

Sauvignon blanc

flower clusters

chardonnay

coffee break hanging wires

Avraham Abba

Eli HaKohen in Shilo

elisheva

600 new baznatim for the expansion and 4 great workers

Chaim home for Shabbat

mediteranean redbud in bloom

late cyclamen growing under a terebinth

just when I thought the flower season was coming to an end...

budka doorjamb

 

 

 

 

kerem resident 

While out looking at potential olive land we had a visitor. 

stuart

bat ayin in the background

eilat 

welcome

This is my first attempt at a web site, let's see what it's like. Mostly, I just want a place for relatives and friends to be able to get pics.
enough for now.
Shabbat Shalom and Purim Sameach

love this color blue

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