Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Attractively Designed Living Room

Through the attractively designed windows in the living room, you can see almost all the way to Damascus, and in the back of the house a vegetable garden covers the terraces. Everything is organic and merges naturally in a wild and lovely mix of colors and fragrances. There are dozens of types of sage, numerous exotic herbs, Sicilian and Uzbek tomatoes, purple Indian and Thai beans, heavenly apples and pears, and bay leaves growing on a tree, instead of in a plastic bag in the supermarket.

Mitzpeh Matat lies next to the Druze village of Hurfeish, roughly 700 meters from the border with Lebanon. "[Hezbollah leader Hassan] Nasrallah fired above our heads," Komarovsky recalls. "We bought the house before the war, and during the war I came here and lived in a hut, and all of the missiles went over our heads."

Komarovsky, 46, is an extremely talented farmer, and except for the cigarettes he smokes, his daily routine is perfectly suited to his surroundings.

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