Days later, as we traveled South on highway 90 along the border with Jordan, we stopped to visit a memorial, Andartat Habikaa, high on a hill and dedicated to a group of Israeli soldiers killed in battle near here in the late 1960's (pictured below) .
While our group gathered to hear the history of the area I spotted a green bottle halfway down the side of the hill on which the memorial stood. Needless to say I climbed down and got that bottle. With the exception of a dozen or so flies no longer among the living, the bottle was in nice shape, didn't even have a label I'd have to remove. Then while in Tel Aviv a few days later I found a nice aqua blue bottle, I took that as well. Now I would need just one additional color, this I would locate in the flea market in Jaffa the day we were to fly home, a brown glass cup purchased from a vendor for about $3.00.
Once home, and with hammer, I broke the two bottles and the cup into many pieces and melted all in my kiln. From there the pieces were cut to shape and placed onto the frames as you see them below, the green bottle provides the stem, the blue bottle the petals, and the brown cup the bud (the background colors I already had at home). It's not really possible to see in these pictures, but I think both pieces turned out nicely since the chunks of glass that make up the flowers are thicker, giving a bit of a 3D effect. So from glass collected in the beautiful country of Israel come four beautiful flowers. My first "international" pieces! And my hope, the one in yellow looks nice in a big bright window gazing the outer edges of Jerusalem.
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