Gosh, it's been almost ten years...
For some reason the picture sticks in my mind. We are lying in our bathing suits on the warm volcanic shores of the Sea of Galilee. I am not well and you have been making the sharp angular black rocks balance on top of each other on impossibly sharp corners. All around us is an eerie landscape of these stable but fragile crags, the sunlight is hazy and yellow and the water of the placid lake lap viscously at our feet. It looks like a holiday brochure photograph for another planet.
I made you turn the date stamp function in your camera on, to show your friends in Vermont how warm it is in Israel on Saturday, the first of December.