Showing posts with label garden. Show all posts
Showing posts with label garden. Show all posts

3/31/2011

colors of spring

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04 narcissus sunshine


colors of my spring -
one yellow narcissus
one yellow butterfly


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Friends sharing their spring colors

colors of my spring
one last purple,3 new peach
flags at the gate


Brenda Roberts


colours of my spring
one yellow daffodill
one purple crocus


Geoff Sanderson



red cheek child
gray haired granny
blue day dawnning


Barbara Beene


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11/20/2010

autumn butterfly

  
  




02 autumn butterfly



autumn butterfly -
the weatherforecast says
SNOW






06 the fly









. 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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12/06/2009

weeds and roses

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winter preparations . . .
too many weeds
between my roses







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9/07/2009

moonlight

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moonlight reflected
on the camellia leaves -
and silence



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8/01/2009

tiny worlds

  
  









a tiny world
unfolds and thrives -
summer rain







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5/24/2009

morning dew

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my face

in the morning dew

my face



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my smile

in the morning dew

my smile






わが顔も
朝露の中
わが顔も




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morning dew, asa tsuyu 朝露
kigo for all autumn



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4/18/2009

red and green

  
  




29 tulip mandala




the red
and the green -
spring colors





16 green in nature








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SPRING WALK
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4/10/2009

shadow mandala

  
  



a star amongst
the white and pink -
shadow mandala





11 a star of shadows








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Spring in my Garden


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12/18/2008

shadows

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winter sunshine -
the shadows on my Buddha
grow older





this was yesterday

winter sunshine -
the slow growth of a stone's
shadow

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I think most of you remember
my old stone Buddha sitting there in meditation





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Discussion

A shadow growing older strikes me as conceptual, rather than perceptual.
B.


As I watch my Buddha I get older
and the shadow shares my fate with me ...
I am one with the shadow
Gabi



shadows change over time, am to noon, shorter and shorter, noon to sunset, longer.
winter to summer ever shorter, summer to winter ever longer
both perceptual as well as conceptual

I.K.


I like your ku as it is now. As you mentioned, a lengthening shadow isn't necessarily a kigo. Heck, my shadow lengthens and shortens all times of the year... though I prefer the taller one! LOL I have three stone monks in my backyard garden.... and I went just now to check their shadows... you indeed have a shasei here and one that is distilled in a wonderful way!
M.


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5/22/2008

sound of water

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summer evening -
the gentle dripping
from my well




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4/20/2008

white butterfly

  
  



68 my colorful garden



colorful spring garden -
a white butterfly seeks
the white tulips






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4/03/2008

spring peace

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spring peace -
just the right shade of
warmth and colors



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Our garden is pure magic this afternoon ...



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3/30/2008

Gardener,s Joy

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harusame 春雨


gentle spring rain -
the colors grow
with every drop




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harusame is a gentle warm rain in spring. Haru no ame, however, denotes any kind of rain in spring, from a strond downpoor to a wintercold drizzle.


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3/24/2008

spring garden

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spring garden -
another color and then
one more



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Every day adds more color to my garden,
new blossoms, new shades of green !



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3/03/2008

first crocus

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first crocus -
almost overlooked amongst
brown wet leaves













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2/26/2008

sudden rain

  
  



03 shades of gray




sudden rain -
my world reduced to
shades of gray






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The gray of this background is called Genji Nezumi Gray
#888084

Grey, Gray (hai-iro, hyaku nezu) and Haiku




Behind the house, all the snow has slipped from the roof and hangs onto the gallery of the outdoor kitchen !

02 hanging into the outdoor kitchen




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A note from Larry Bole, Happy Haiku Forum

Gabi san, just a note about gray:

Thanks for the haiku and the haikutopics entry on gray. I like Rikyu, and now I have something new to learn about him and "Rikyu gray."

Recently, in New York City, there was a controversy about plans to renovate the Guggenheim Museum. The designer of the building, Frank Lloyd Wright, hated gray. Originally, the building was painted a buff yellow. But afer 11 coats of paint over the years, the building ended up being light gray. Recently, the Landmarks Preservation Commission here decided that the building will remain light gray. This has disappointed architects and others who decry the graying of our cities.

It makes me think of how garish we would find it if the marble-white sculptures and buildings of antiquity were restored to the original vivid colors they were apparently painted with.

Anyway, hopefully I will be visiting an exhibit of work by the great American artist Jasper Johns at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, titled "Jasper Johns: Gray," which will look at his use of gray throughout his career.

"Johns has worked in gray, at times to evoke a mood, at other times to evoke an intellectual rigor that results from his purging most color from his works."


Here are a couple of gray haiku I like:


dawn–
shades of grey break
into birdsong


Pamela Miller Ness -
The Heron's Nest (Dec. 2000)



storm warning
the watercolorist works
in shades of grey


Tom Painting
from The Heron's Nest


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2/24/2008

heavy snow again - yajiri

  
  



icicles from my roof

06 icicles





My Buddha under cover

08 Buddha snowed in





cypresse trees in heavy snow

13 cypresse






the way up to my mailbox

16 road up to my mailbox





treetops

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avalanches forming on the large roof

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half of the roof snow is now DOWN !
Blocking our back yard - yajiri 屋尻 


24 the back is closed





jifubuki, snow blowing UP by strong storm

25 jifubuki snow blowing UP



29 mountain tops



shovelling snow
the whole day ...
no time for haiku








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Check my ALBUM from Nr. 1 to Nr. 30 to see this splendid winter day.

Snowed In ... ALBUM



YAHOO weather forecast

Monday Morning, 25
Still all white around, minus four in the morning ... and more snowmen in the weather forecast!


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The back of a farmhouse is often called
yajiri 屋尻 "bottom side of a house"


In mountainous regions this part can be very narrow and dangerous for mudslides.
In winter, snowslides from the slopes and the roof are a problem.


はつ雪の降り捨てある家尻哉
hatsu furi no sutete aru yajiri kana

a dumping ground
for the first snow...
my backyard


Kobayashi Issa
(Tr. David Lanoue)

If you do not get rid fast enough of the snow from the roof, it might break the beams that support the house.
And behind the house, where no sunshine reaches until next spring, it will pile up like a glacier . . .




snow avalanches behind my home in Okayama



. The Japanese House .
in all seasons


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Snowstorm

  
  


02 gatehouse and Buddha



meditating ...



04 Buddha is snow



the Buddha's face
in the snowstorm






05 Buddhas face






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Next morning, 40 cm of snow and more to come ...

Japan is engulfed with low pressure fields !






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More snow, more snow, more snow ...
Sunday all Day !






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2/14/2008

wednesday snow

  
  



My Badger Tanuki with a scarf
hookaburi 頬被り, like a Japanese thief

01 Wednesday Snow ... Till Nr. 13

hookamuri, cover of the cheeks






black bird on a winter branch

04 bird





a moment of sunshine

06 wax forsythia





camellia flowers in snow



10 detail




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wednesday morning -
more snow and more
happiness







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The Cold Wave continues ...

The wind is biting cold this morning, the moment of sunshine just enough to give some the background to the photos. Fingers freezing on the camera ! Then back to gray in gray, buzzing wind and blizzard-like snowflakes whirling around the valley.


. . . Arctic Touch, beginning on Tuesday ...



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2/09/2008

snow on palm tree

  
  



01 Ebisu rooftile





snow on plam leaves -
I wonder about
a haiku


03 palm tree in snow




04 palm trees END






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