And there goes the last little firestarter

Godspeed, little ones! Don't forget that the essential ingredient in any successful Lag B'Omer bonfire is butane. Lots and lots of butane.*


*Stahm! (transl.''Only kidding!''.

Pyros-in-the-making

Here they are, passing merrily by my bus stop. This is in a very tony area of north Tel Aviv--Ramat Aviv Gimel. It's full of huge luxury condo buildings, and more are being built all the time (hence the profusion of lumber scraps around the 'hood). I am not just here to creepily take pictures of children without their knowledge, I tutor a little boy who lives in one of the fancy-pants buildings.

Children+Fire=Jewish Holiday

The classic sign that Lag B'Omer is nigh upon us: Roving gangs of children scavenging for lumber remnants at construction sites to shlep home in stolen shopping carts.

A picture for laura

This impressive-looking pachyderm is part of the indoor playground at ''kanyohn dizengoff''(dizengoff mall) right near my house. Those are red metal stairs underneath the tusks that lead to a slide. . .So, yes, essentially the kids slide out of the elephant's butt. It's pretty great.

Speaking of ''the parlance of our times''

Photobomb

I like this shot because it looks like two of the little ghouls are doing a photobomb, giving major stinkeye from the bottom right corner!

Oh, hello creepy-cool street art

I found this wheat-pasted on to one of my building's walls recently. Cool, right? This artist ''gets up'' (to use the parlance of our times) a lot all around TLV but I have no idea who (s)he is. . .