Showing posts with label my valley. Show all posts
Showing posts with label my valley. Show all posts

10/29/2010

red leaves

  
  



G 100 red leaves backlight



autumn leaves -
a new collection
for every year



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G 99 leaves in evening sun




G 99 detail




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70 pointing toward the sky




autumn leaves -
the blue sky filled
with joy



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42 Takitani autumn colors




34 yellow leaf




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23 natural colors



Lady Murasaki
tries on her new robes -
just for me



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17 red autumn leaves














Take a walk with me :

. Autumn colors and sky  



. Autumn 2010
Photo Collection
 




. My LEAF collection
Laeves in all seasons
  





. Clouds playing in the sky
Visit of Nakamura Sakuo san




With Nakamura Sakuo san



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9/18/2010

spider and tanada

  
  




19 spider and Tanada whow




autumn deepens -
does the spider know
the big picture ?









06 Tanada valley








Tanada
LOOK at the terraced rice fields of today

. Photo Album : Rice Fields





Flowers ...  a hungry visitor butterfly

LOOK at the flowers and animals by the roadside

. Photo Album : Flowers by the Roadside



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9/11/2010

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

02 woodpecker all round


01 woodpecker hole



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9/08/2010

uraja

  
  



URAJA
URA JA
URA URA URA JA















My Okayama Life

. URA JA - Kagura and Local Lore


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9/06/2010

one fallen leaf

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one fallen leaf
in a ray of sunight -
roadside treasures





The persimmon tree is beginning to shed its colorful leaves!


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8/28/2010

autumn sunset

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autumn sunset -
the bamboo sways
in a gentle breeze


autumn sunset -
the cicadas shrill and
shrill and shrill



autumn sunset -
I run for another bottle
of cold beer






You just won't believe how hot it is tonight !
You have to run,
otherwise the beer gets warm before it reaches your mouth.



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8/26/2010

moon

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what a night -
the moon still hangs
behind the bamboo




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8/07/2010

lavender spotlight

  
  




waiting for the morning sun
























burning bush -
the long wait for
the sun




11 burning 400










. START the full lavender morning show !  



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And here is its friend next-door

. Lady Sunflower  




. rabendaa ラベンダー lavender
KIGO
  



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7/31/2010

woodcutters

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02 lost trees like lost teeth




five thirty -
the woodcutters chainsaw
sounds deep in the forest




Friday, 9th of July

They start early to avoid the daily heat.
Lying in my bed,
I hear the huge stems creak and fall, one after the other.

How will the pine forest below look
when I go up and look out of the window?


Well, it seems the forest is loosing teeth.

Even the hawk kept circling many times over the spot,
wondering at what happened to his hunting ground.


04 result of one morning of cutting



Friday, 16th of July

They stopped for three days, due to strong rain.
This morning, they were back at six ... and the forest is loosing more shape.


Tuesday, 20th of July
They are back every morning ...
We see a huge truck carrying the long stems out of the valley.

And more sounds of splitting wood
and thudding on the ground.



five thirty -
the chainsaw sounds again
deep in the forest





Wednesday, July 21

05 woodcutters



Friday, July 30
They have been working almost every morning.
Today again, at 5:30 the chainsaw started ...

100730 woodcutter 01

I wonder how the trees on this mountain feel when they hear the sound?
And see their tree friends fall down one after the other ?


birdsong -
again and again
the same song


chainsaw -
again and again
the same sound



100730 missing trees


In the afternoon, I took a walk to the cutting area.


a02 waiting for transport

Wood waiting for transportation



a03 wood waiting



a05 nenrin 400


to kill a tree -
the mind goes
in circles




to kill this tree -
life grows
in circles



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concave or convex -
the mind still goes
wondering

(for my haiku friends)


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Now on August 8



A02 scars in the forest





clouds
looking like mountains -
peace on earth


A01 woodcutters area



August 17
They are back, more noisy than ever ...


woodcutters august 17


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Here is a story send by a friend about a
WOODCUTTER


One day, while a woodcutter was cutting a branch off a tree above a river, his ax fell into the river. When he cried out, the Lord appeared and asked,
"Why are you crying?" The woodcutter replied that his ax had fallen into the water, and he needed the ax to make his living.

The Lord went down into the water and reappeared with a golden ax. "Is this your ax?" the Lord asked.
The woodcutter replied, "No."

The Lord again went down and came up with a silver ax. "Is this your ax?" the Lord asked.
Again, the woodcutter replied, "No."

The Lord went down again and came up with an iron ax. "Is this your ax?" the Lord asked.
The woodcutter replied, "Yes."

The Lord was pleased with the man's honesty and gave him all three axes to keep, and the woodcutter went home happy.


Some time later the woodcutter was walking with his wife along the riverbank, and his wife fell into the river.

When he cried out, the Lord again appeared and asked him, "Why are you crying?"

"Oh Lord, my wife has fallen into the water!"

The Lord went down into the water and came up with Jennifer Lopez. "Is this your wife?" the Lord asked.

"Yes," cried the woodcutter.

The Lord was furious. "You lied! That is an untruth!"

The woodcutter replied, "Oh, forgive me, my Lord.
It is a misunderstanding. You see, if I had said 'no' to Jennifer Lopez, You would have come up with Catherine Zeta-Jones. Then if I also said 'no' to her, you would have come up with my wife. Had I then said 'yes,' you would have given me all three. Lord, I am a poor man, and am not able to take care of all three wives, so that's why I said yes to Jennifer Lopez."

The moral of this story is:
Whenever a man lies,
it is for a good and honorable reason, and for the benefit of others . . .



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7/15/2010

rain rain rain

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no birdsong -
only strong rain drums
on my roof



Japan is full to the brink with rainwater ...
For the last three days, almost constant rain of the strongest kind.

西日本で豪雨、土砂崩れなど被害続く






I wake up from the pounding, after an almost sleepless night, the third in a row.
The grey umbrella shows we had 11 mm/h from six to nine this morning.
next
The grey umbrella shows we had 7 mm/h from nine till 12 this morning.



. 大雨 まだ 大雨 
BIG RAIN




http://www.rsk.co.jp/weather/kousui2.html



Just watched the 11 o'clock news
Wednesday, 14th of July 2010

Kagoshima is hit in many places, rivers overflowing, mudslides, hole mountain slopes coming down.
Forcast is more heavy rain for Western Japan, including red-alert warnings for our area.




More rain is expected until mid-day tomorrow, the 15th:
maybe 150 ml in 24 hours
with strong downpoors of 50 - 70 ml in one hour ... oh dear !

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Morning of Thursday, July 15

The night was not as bad as predicted in my area, now it is raining "peacefully" just a little, until tomorrow ... we hope.


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5/31/2010

Tanada Festival

  
  



38 a bow in the sky





a colorful arc
brightens the sky -
Tanada Matsuri










Take a walk with me !
. Tanada Rice Paddies Festival   

Tanada Matsuri

岡山県美咲町で「棚田きんちゃいまつり」2010   



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5/22/2010

Tanada in May

  
  









rice paddies
on a rainy may day . . .
gentle curves










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. Ohaga Nishi Tanada 大垪和西の棚田


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5/03/2010

Takitani Pond

  
  


滝谷池


001 Takitani Pond Walk till Nr. 27





009 blossoms lake mountain





011 blossoms and lake




012 mountain and blossoms





018 blossoms and cedar trees





023 cherry blossom festival






024 blossoms lake and sky



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the swan house


015 swan house among blossoms





two swans
taking a rest ...
cherry blossom time




006 swans among blossoms





013 pink in blue sky







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