Celebrating Katy's Birthday

We spent our evening at the Ticho House in downtown Jerusalem, one of the first houses in Jerusalem to be built outside of the city walls. It was the home, painting studio, and eye clinic of the painter Anna Ticho and her ophthalmologist husband, Avraham Ticho; today it’s a restaurant and museum. We enjoyed the beautiful gardens on the property there, delicious food (and birthday cake!) and live jazz. We also spent some time at the museum looking at Anna Ticho’s watercolor landscapes of Jerusalem and elsewhere in the land of Israel (“I didn’t choose the landscape – the landscape chose me,” she said) and Avraham Ticho’s Hanukkah lamp collection (a particular passion of a doctor devoted to bringing light into people’s lives, the museum curators noted).

Katy reports that she has had a great birthday, even if she had to spend an hour of it taking her final exam for her Biblical Grammar course.

Happy Birthday!