too much work - feather

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too much work ...
this feather hangs
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A spider sewed at night
Without a light
Upon an arc of white.

Check this gem found on the way ...



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. Feather, feathers .



WASHOKU ... MY WORK




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ten takashi

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天高し人間の世は虫の声


high autumn sky ...　
in the world of men
voices of insects




...and in Italian (5-7-5):
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cielo d'Autunno
nel mondo degli uomini
voci d'insetti
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Bellissimo!
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Moussia
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I start with the autumn sky, because this is where the mind wandered first ... free in the blue and clear eternity
then reminded that we are in the world of men after all

and now, at my feet, so to say, all these insects (humans) making their noises ...

So the order is given by the way things evolved on this afternoon. zooming in on the idea.



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eating vegetables

尺取虫 . . . shakutori mushi yes, mother said vegetables are good for you Sharing food with a thousand brothers and sisters ! In just one night they cleared a huge patch of weeds ! This year, they are especially numerous.

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As the foodchain evolved,
the crows came in hundreds and had a feast !

And left their white splashes all over the road.




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ant

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stone patterns -
this ant hurries
in circles



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Quietude and the Galactic Ant 　静けさと蟻のクシャミ


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sleeping doll

midday heat - a still life with my Daruma cat midday heat ... my cat sleeps with her paper doll

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This is a special papermachee doll of a sleeping cat with a Daruma doll.
It sits on a shelf, where O-Tsu has sneeked in to find some peace.

MORE
Cats and Daruma, Manekineko 招き猫とだるま






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beneath my desk
my cat sleeps out of reach
of my feet


Jo McInerney, August 2008

Thank you, Jo!


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Grasshopper

? ? ? Try to find the grasshopper on this photo! ....................... ! looking closer ... this grasshopper shits on the lily ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo my lily laughs at human follies ... wha ha ha haa ! ! ! ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo another story not fully told ... see what I mean ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo about two hours later, same lily the Wedding Party grasshoppershaving a wedding party -come on, come on ! even doing it upside down who is who ? Visitor taking a good look ! - THE END -

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Start from here with the details
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and then WEDDING PARRY till Nr. 13



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My friends carried on for quite a while until dark, so I checked a bit on the mating habits of grasshoppers:

Elaborate courtship routines are performed by males in some species. The American grasshopper Syrbula admirabilis displays 18 individual poses using its wings, legs, and palps. Males of other species may wave brilliantly colored wings when wooing the female, while other species forego courtship altogether.

Mating occurs when the male lights on the female's back and may last anywhere from 45 minutes to well over a day. In the species Extatosoma tiaratum, a female mates with several males. Most of the sperm in her genital tract from the first suitor is replaced by the sperm of her next mate.
Males therefore mate many times with the same partner and other females to gain the maximum opportunity to pass on their genes.
Males of some species die shortly after mating.
The females die after egg-laying, which may last until cold weather begins.
source : Grasshoppers - Courtship And Mating

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oh these humans -
I can only scratch my head
in wonder



source :　www.dailymail.co.uk 2011


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long-horned grasshopper (Platyphyllum concavum,
some sources quote: Gampsocleis buergeri)
Grasshopper, a KIGO


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great heat

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great heat ...
a beetle with six legs
in the air







When it comes to shasei, I rather keep it the way I saw it and do not want him to loose one leg just for the sake of writing a clever haiku :o)

and the rest of the stroy

when I turned him over I could see his beautiful black-blue-spotted back, he was about 5 cm long, and suddenly he flapped his wings and then flew off to new adventures .... he really had me fooled ..


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many people die of heatstroke here in Japan !
and the summer is just beginning !

This morning my bedroom temperature was 30 degrees centigrade ... talking of sauna ...






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Namib Desert Beetle

morning dew ... even the desert comes alive Photo : Moongateclimber There are some deserts close to the oceans where they get humidity almost every early morning, when the moisture from the sea is blown toward the land. Animals and plants have special abilities to get the dew from this phenomenon to survive during the day. I remember one beetle standing upside down, wings spread, to catch the dew and lead it into its tiny mouth ... Mostly in South America, if memory serves right. And some in the sourthern parts of Africa. Here is a photo from the Namib desert beetle.

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The Namib Desert beetle dwells in one of the most arid areas with only one and half inch (40 mm) of rain per year, and has developed a unique technique to survive by obtaining water from early morning fogs. It drinks by the means of its own bumpy back surface, which provides for accumulation of water droplets of fifteen to twenty micrometers in diameter.
©　More in the WIKIPEDIA !



Desert, sand desert WKD



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barbeque sleepers

summer heat - the cats sleep on the barbeque O-Tsu with the Badger Tanuki , her drinking companion siesta time -sharing a sipwith her best friend

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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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tsuyu akete semi no koe no tani to naru
梅雨明けて　蝉の声の　谷となる



rainy season is over ...
my valley is swamped with
cicada shrills



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summer heat

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summer heat ...
my cat hides under
the silk carpet




Haiku kun sneaked into my cooled room and peeks out from under the fringes of the carpet ... fully knowing he is not supposed to be there ...



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silent night

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dark night ... a firefly flies over my roof two days later dark night ... three fireflies brighten my valley again two days later silent night ... the delicate shimmer of fireflies

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At first I was tempted to write ... a silent night
to make sure it was not THE Silent Night ... spelled mostly with capital S and N.

It is like a Christmas present to see these thousands of fireflies in the remote valley in complete silence, up and down, back and forth ... and we can enjoy it for about two, three weeks if there is no rain at night ..




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simple life

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doing the dishes ...
outside
two tender butterflies








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The TENDER ... well, we have so many different types of butterflies around, and these "janome" are always as a pair, on their honeymoon trip, so it seems, and really tender, considering the bigger and tougher ones that can even escape the claws of my cats without much harm.


As for the form, I am experimenting with .. short long short ...

the OUTSIDE ... should bring you inside yourself, meditating whilst doing the dishes ...

Greetings from my zen kitchen!


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Butterfly (choo) KIGO



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bumblebee

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sunny summer day ...
I bumble along with
the bumble bees




They are on the blackberry flowers and others and their hummmmmm fills my garden !




Inspired by a posting from
Larry Bole


I've got a lil' dance ain't got no steps
I'm gonna let the music move me around

(B. Preston / B. Fisher)


sunny summer day...
bopping along to the beat
blasting from a car

Larry

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butterfly

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morning walk ...
a butterfly sniffs
at the dog shit



Just by chance, later in the day, I did more on the kigo
BUTTERFLY


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First Firefly

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初蛍　嬉しい限りの　初蛍



first firefly
I am so happy
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firefly (hotaru) KIGO



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wanderlust

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wanderlust ...
a small snail
on the fresh green moss








shorten it to


wanderlust ...
a small snail
on fresh moss



..... wanderlust ..... snail ..... moss .....



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The rainy season brings out the best in the moss ... and the little snails ...



Snail (katatsumuri, katatsuburi)Japan, worldwide



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herons circle

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summer solitude -
two herons circle
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They are extremely beautiful
in contrast with the green walls of my valley !

They came in from the lowest entry to our rather small round valley and circled their way up, as they always do in the evening spin of the wind.
With the bamboo and forest so green, they were just beautiful, first seing their white backs way down, then at eye level and finally against the blue sky up high ... and off over the highest part of the valley to the next one ...



Heron (aosagi)


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Buzzard

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tea break ...
we watch a buzzard shit
from the telephone pole



He sat there for a while on the only pole amongst the rice paddies, then lifted his tail feathers, took a deep breath (so to say) and then squeezed a huge white load out, more than a meter behind himself ... where it then made its way toward the earth ...


Since this spring, we see him more often, trying to compete with the local tombi, the black milan.



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mukade

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pulling weeds ...
a centipede hides under
the stone Buddha



This Buddha is rather a small statue in a corner of my garden and when I lifted him up to clear away the weeds, there was a huge centipede there, grinning at me !



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The messenger (retainer) of the deity Bishamonten was thought of as a centipede!
Bishamon and the Centipede
Daruma Museum



. . . Centipede, Millipede ... KIGO



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