Autumn harvest

It's Friday. Another weekend. The streets are very crowded today because muslims are coming to pray in the Al Aqsa mosque while Jews are preparing for Yom Kippur with prayers at the Wailing Wall. It makes going out or coming back home quite tedious as you have to squeeze and push your way through.

Police enforce strict security checks at every corner. The coming feasts of Yom Kippur and Sukkot are making everyone jittery as violence continue throughout the country.

Putting those thoughts aside ... the autumn harvest is in full swing. Lots of grapes and dates and pomegranates. Also peaches and plums. And the locally planted guavas and pineapples are also plentiful. What is missing is custard apple. There used to be alot of them in the market but this year no shop is selling them. Strange. Come to think of it ... lychees are also rare this year. Maybe no one's buying them so the farmers stopped producing.