Two days ago I came across Ibrahim Oweis' post "snow girl". The news of snow in Amman, Jordan moved me to email my father to ask him to snap me some pictures if there was snow in Beit Sahour and Bethlehem. My father emailed me back to let me know that there was no snow anywhere to be seen and regaled me with how terrible (in his words, shitty) the weather is. Maybe I'll appoint my father Minister of Tourism, he can really sell it. I thought that was the end of it.
When I woke up this morning I found a bunch of emails from my dad in my inbox. Apparently it had snowed during the night and when he woke up he snapped some pictures for me. I'm upgrading him from the Ministry of Tourism to the Ministry of Public Works and Making Samir Happy.
These two pictures are of Bethlehem as seen from Beit Sahour. You are seeing the eastern slope of Bethlehem as it descends towards Beit Sahour.
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The next batch are all pictures of Beit Sahour covered in snow. These pictures all face south. In the second picture if you look at the horizon you can see a hill with a flat top, that hill is Herodion.
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The next three images are cropped from another south-facing picture of Beit Sahour.
I like this part very much. You can see arable fields in the middle of the image then as you pan up towards the horizon you see Herodion again.
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I cropped out this image so that I could get an image that covered part of the southern horizon from my home. It is anchored on the left by Herodion again.
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This last image I like very much. It is the field directly across from our house. Usually I never get to imagine it this way because the background, in this case the ground, is almost always shades of brown. I love how the snow makes each olive tree pop out of the picture. What really makes the scene stand out for me is the shadows cast by the morning sun.
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If you liked these pictures leave nice comments. Maybe we can convince my father to take more pictures. Also, bribery works.
