Oh How I Love You, Springtime...

I love Springtime in Israel - not just the knowledge that warmer weather is on the way, but the endless colours and textures of the flowers that are bursting into bloom all across the country.  Here are a few of my favourite shots, taken over the last few years in the Galilee, the Negev, the Jerusalem Hills and Tel Aviv...

I captured this beautiful flower in Sde Boker, in the Negev desert...  

Almond blossom, in the Jerusalem hills...

At the edge of Lake Galilee...

Blossom near the Latrun monastery...

Red kalaniot (anemones) in the Western Negev...

Frangipani in a Tel Aviv park...

A brown Iris (quite uncommon), found in the Western Negev...

On a tree next to the Tel Aviv Hilton I spy these beauties....

Jacaranda in Zichron Yaakov...

And, finally, pink blossom in Tel Aviv's 'Nachalat Binyamin' craft market...