Stromata

... and it was cold again last night. It drizzled a little but no rain. The super moon was partially hidden by heavy clouds. Police still patrolled our streets but there was hardly anyone because of the cold ... or maybe a curfew that was imposed.

Sun conure
parakeet

There's excited in the air ... literally ... as news is afloat that more asian airlines will be flying into Israel: SIA, CX and perhaps Air India, Philippine Airlines as well. Israel realizes that the tourist industry's biggest market is now in Asia. These few weeks are witness to that ... thousands of asian tourists including a Thai group living next door at Ecce Homo hostel. There are also japanese, vietnamese and other asian groups that we usually not see in our streets.

Last week while visiting the arab petshop and nursery, I saw a lovely sun conure parakeet ... very playful and very beautiful and colorful. He won't leave me when I wanted to go home. It flared its wings and nodded its head ... typically parakeet gesture to draw attention. I thought of getting him as a companion to Buddy - who's a green-cheeked conure. But flashes of 2 parakeets tearing up my books and clothes, with sunflower seeds all over room and poop to clean .... I decided definitely no. But another friend is interested ... so maybe this sun conure might get a good life instead of the confines of a petshop.