Olive and Mango trees blooming

I'm feeling much better-the shot really worked! No more tears! Thought you might like a peek at the culprits of all my woe! :)

This is a flowering olive tree...beautiful isn't it?
Its in this olive grove right across from our house. Yes, that's our entryway and picket fence...that's only a little bit of the grove (its long and thin only about 4 trees deep).

Here's a view of Migdal and the large orchards in the valley...our house is on a hill so we look down on the orchards. The dark green in neat rows are new mango trees...not much to trouble me this year...the reddish color is from the mango trees in bloom and the dusky green are the olive trees.

This is a mango tree in full bloom...its from the orchard across from our house at the back of the house-not as close as the olives but alot closer than the trees in the valley.

I'm torn every year by the beauty of the flowering trees and the havoc they wreck on me. My favorite are the little yellow flowers of the olive trees that are now starting to fall like snow-so tiny, delicate and lovely.

I'm feeling so much better that I think I can actually sew something!

Allergies???

No allergies for me this year! No tears running down my face, no sneezing 16 times in a row, no allergy triggered asthma-no, not for me!

APRIL FOOLS!

I wish it was true but instead I went to the doctor this morning and she's given me a shot of steroids (does this mean I can hit a baseball farther than anyone else?) and she's increased the dosage of the antihistamine I take. Lets hope this works and I can get my life back. I haven't even visited my blogging friends because I can't really read through my "veil of tears".

The guests are still coming...DH made a lovely roast lamb dinner last night and tonight we all went out to a restaurant. At least I can enjoy the good company and conversation of friends, even if they keep calling "Poor dear!".

Wishing everyone a Happy Passover, Happy Easter or Happy Spring.

Charity Quilt

This has been a bad allergy week...I thought I was over the worst when I was able to piece the back and then baste the disappearing 9 patch but I was wrong. The weather turned; we had a terrible sand storm followed by strong winds which just blew everything-pollen and sand everywhere-my eyes still haven't recovered! Lots of blogging friends are also suffering all over the world...hope we all feel better soon.

This week I got a call from Lola, the Haifa guild is again collecting charity quilts. They're donating the quilts to the children's ward at Rambam Hospital in Haifa-the largest hospital in north Israel. Lola and I met at the Quinglish last month. They're giving the quilts in two weeks so I decided I better give something I have finished and thought of this cute cow quilt that I finished last year as part of the 2008 New Year's Challenge. Its 40" x 40" so it seems a good size.