First Swallow - MEMO

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First swallow record of many years ...



Swallow, Tsubame, a kigo
first swallow, hatsu tsubame 初燕


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hatsu tsubame ... so early, so early, why did you come ?

April 6, 2007

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First Typhoon of the Season 2007

Next, we have Frost in the Morning !

Worried about climate changes !



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hatsu tsubame, April 10, 2008



first swallow -
the cherries in full bloom
and chirping in the sky


first swallow -
the silcenc after
a busy day


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hatsu tsubame, April 23, 2011


first swallow -
the rainy sky turns
sunny





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hatsu tsubame, April 4, 2012


first swallow -
trying to cruize
the spring storm

A typhoon-like weather pattern is over Japan since yesterday, this morning was ice on the water basin.


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. Ohaga Michi no Eki .


hatsu tsubame, April 13, 2016

With the cherry blossoms just scattering . . .



hatsu tsubame, April 16, 2017


hatsu tsubame, April 1, 2021
The cherry blossoms were 2 weeks earlier this year ! Global Wariming !



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sunshine for two

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sunshine for two -
the cat curls his tail
around my leg



After a morning of minus 5 centigrade,
a sudden burst of warmness in the afternoon !
So we shared our special stone . . .



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woodpecker

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light snow -
a woodpecker hammers
in the silence





. woodpecker, kitsutsuki 啄木鳥 　


basically a kigo for all autumn, but these days I hear him every morning when I open the window.
And today, in the silence of freshly fallen snow, the sound was most eerie in the valley !




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neve leggera -
il martello di un picchio
nel silenzio

Tr. by Moussia


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cats napping

the cats take a nap at their favorit spaces - winter sunshine ................................................................................. Haiku kun wakes up

. Cats in Paradise ..
O-Tsu and Haiku-Kun お津と俳句くん



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morning meditation

meditating for peace in the world - how about you ?

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little spider

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cleaning the gutters -
a little green spider
runs out of hiding









. SPIDER - a summer kigo 　


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autumn butterfly

autumn butterfly - the weatherforecast says SNOW

. WALK WITH ME
in my garden today 　


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One orange falling leaf
Floats against the autumn breeze
Monarch butterfly.

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Monarch butterfly
Floating in the autumn breeze
No, a falling leaf


butterflypsyche
Happy Haiku Forum



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little crab

morning walk - a little crab stares at me

She was sitting in the middle of the road.
I picked her up
and put her in the shadow of some weeds.



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. Crab (kani 蟹) : KIGO 　



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extinct birds

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autumn memories -
the sound of birds
long extinct




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New Zealand

The value of conservation is better understood by an appreciation of lost biodiversity. New Zealand's greatest biological loss is 42 percent of its' terrestrial birds since human settlement 700 years ago. The 57 extinct birds evolved in an isolated land, and without mammal predators, developed various levels of flightlessness, ground feeding and nesting habits, and fearlessness over millions of years.
source : www.terranature.org






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spider

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bedtime -
an uninvited spider
sits on the wall



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spider and tanada

autumn deepens - does the spider know the big picture ?

Tanada
LOOK at the terraced rice fields of today

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LOOK at the flowers and animals by the roadside

. Photo Album : Flowers by the Roadside



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woodpecker drumming

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early morning -
a woodpecker's drumming
fills the valley


After the typhoon, mornings have become cool and I can leave the windows wide open ... this woodpecker seems to drum on the bamboo, it reverberates in a low tone all over the place and he is very powerfull, no breaks, just hammering away ...



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. woodpecker, kitsutsuki 啄木鳥 　

kigo for all autumn



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our woodpecker working in this spring








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Haiku Kun

Haiku kun - his green eyes reflect it all

. Haiku Kun Interview -
Japan Times May 2005 　



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do'nt be jealous -
I have nine tails
I have nine lives


Haiku kun flirting with LISA, the cat of Origa

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. Cats in Paradise ..
O-Tsu and Haiku-Kun お津と俳句くん


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first cicada

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初蝉の声にあまえて朝寝坊
hatsu semi no koe ni amaete asa neboo

lulled by the voice
of the first cicada ...
I sleep longer



The rainy season is over at last,
now even the animals make this anouncement.



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bees and lavender

anybody home ? a bumblebee searches among the lavender

. Lavender and My Buddha
July 2009



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first firefly

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初蛍月もちょっと顔をだす


first firefly -
the moon also shows
his face





Fireflies (hotaru) ... KIGO


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snakes in love

snakes in love . . . they take their time this way and that

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. Snake (hebi) ... KIGO 　　


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Summer Begins

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summer begins ...
I share my bath
with a centipede



the HAIKU SUMMER begins on May 6 in Japan.


summer begins, May 6, rikka　立夏

Early summer: 6 May – 5 Jun
Mid-summer: 6 Jun – 6 Jul
Late summer: 7 Jul – 7 Aug

. Haiku Summer Natsu



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egret

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morning mist --
an egret hunts
in the lotus pond




The scene is almost too kitsch ... but happened none the least.
And I did not have the camera handy to capture it!



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spring gales

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spring gale ...
a raven misses
the landing branch


spring gales - -
two raven collide
in mid-air





We have quite a strom again.



Storm in Ohaga


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