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- Renate is a married 77 year old person from Gold Coast, QLD, Australia.
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I am an:
1. artist, traditional and modern painting.
2. Poet - writing poems you can understand about various subjects. 3. The author of 'From the
Promised Land to the Lucky Country'
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A Tree from Biblical times
Gerry said,
`Come. I must show you something.'
`Show me what?'
`You'll see'
He took me by the hand and led me behind the new art centre to the old part of Natanya, and I was surprised.
What is there to see at this end of town?
We got to a small park, and he stopped.
`Look at this tree' he said pointing to a very large sycamore,
`It stands here from the days of old Israel. It is over two thousand years old!'
And what a tree: A trunk five meters wide at its widest angle; with a huge canopy, full of fruit and leaves and very much alive.
Looking at it I wondered at the travellers it met, the wars he lived through and the lovers under its shade.
From long into antiquity the Land of Israel was a transit land between three continents: between Europe, Africa and Asia. It had two main routes passing through it: one along the Mediterranean shore and the other over the mountain ridge; and it may very well be that this tree stood beside the main route along the sea.
Egypt in the south, and the Hittites, Assyrian and Macedonians to the north, to name only a few, used these highways for commerce and their none-ending wars; in their quest for the then world domination. The `King's Way' was the one along the seashore, in Hebrew דרך המלך - Derech Hamelech, and the other - דרך ההר - Derech HaHar - meaning - The `Mountain Route'.
Standing there the uniqueness of the place overtook me. I looked, wondered and wished I could communicate with it.
We returned, several times, to this small park that is not even a street away from the hustle and bustle of Natanya's main street. We shot day, twilight and night photos, when the tree is floodlit, and included some here for your enjoyment.
A day shot
Floor painting done by a traveler in 1873
At this angle, the trunk is 5m wide
A part of very old branch
The fruit on its branches
The tree at twilight
A night shot
A branch at night
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