Saturday, May 16, 2009

A trip to Tel Dan

Today we decided to take a trip to Tel Dan. Here are some pictures that I took.

First, a pretty lavender flower, which, I think, is different from any that we've seen before. There were many of them today at Tel Dan, however:

The hollyhocks are blooming all over the place now. This one had gotten bent over so that the stalk was horizontal rather than vertical as usual, but that didn't keep it from making a gorgeous flower:

I saw lots of these beautiful pink flowers. This one caught the light just right to make a great photograph:

The Dan River is amazing! It rises from hundreds of small springs, all in the Tel Dan area. Later, it becomes one of the main sources of water for the Jordan River. Already at this point, though, the amount of water flowing in it is impressive, especially for such a generally dry country as this:

I also took some short movie clips of the Dan River, so that you could actually see the water flowing. I used the iMovie program to put 3 of them together into this short movie:

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