Last week Jerusalem, Israel, was a winter wonderland,
![DSC_0604e](http://s629411786.onlinehome.us/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/dsc_0604e.jpg)
snowing hard enough that even friends from Norway and Canada commented.
![snowman melting, Jerusalem photo](http://s629411786.onlinehome.us/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/img_1111e.jpg)
However, by Friday afternoon it had warmed enough that
our snowman was not looking so good and had lost one radish eye.
![Jerusalem after snow photo, Jerusalem photo tour](http://s629411786.onlinehome.us/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/img_1146e.jpg)
A few dirty old piles of snow and ice are still around,
![Jerusalem photo, tree fallen](http://s629411786.onlinehome.us/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/dsc_0814-ejpg.jpg)
while piles of downed branches line many Jerusalem streets.
![Jerusalem photo. tree dwon](http://s629411786.onlinehome.us/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/img_1142e.jpg)
Large limbs of trees fell near the Prime Minister’s residence,
![Jerusalem photo tree down](http://s629411786.onlinehome.us/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/img_1152e.jpg)
and many large trees like this one came down because of the weather.
![Jerusalem photo tree damage](http://s629411786.onlinehome.us/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/dsc_0787ejpg.jpg)
In the Davidka Square, all the newly planted trees were ruined;
only one branch was left dangling after the snow damage was cleaned up.
![Jerusalem photo tree down](http://s629411786.onlinehome.us/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/img_1154e.jpg)
When the sun came out and temperatures warmed up, not everyone
seemed to be bothered by the branches that littered the sidewalks.
![Jerusalem photo at night](http://s629411786.onlinehome.us/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/dsc_0822e.jpg)
Post-snowstorm, there is still plenty to clean up on the streets,
but if you are looking for ice,
![fish store, Jerusalem photo shuk](http://s629411786.onlinehome.us/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/dsc_0811e.jpg)
you’ll have to go once again to the Machane Yehuda market, the shuk,
where the fish shops are filled with fresh fish on ice.
![shuk, market, Machane Yehuda photo](http://s629411786.onlinehome.us/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/dsc_0809e.jpg)
At the shuk, fresh figs were on sale yesterday ahead of Tu B’Shvat,
the New Year for trees, ten days from now:
a perfect time to plant new trees.