Showing posts with label snowflakes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label snowflakes. Show all posts

1/25/2011

snowflakes

  
  




04 more snowflakes





sudden snowfall -
the stone Buddha sits
undisturbed



05 Buddha with snowflakes and sunshine



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just one snowflake
just one blossom
winter sunshine


09 one flake one blossom - END








winter dawn
the stone Buddha wears a kesa
of snow

Jenifer

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1/15/2011

snowflakes in sunshine

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snowflakes in sunshine -
the dirt on my windows
shows clearly



Expecting a blizzard for tomorrow, seems to start now . . . brrrrr . . . temperatures dropping as I write . . .



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Next Morning, Sunday at Six

Minus 7 centigrate, snow keeps falling ...



12 branches




blizzard -
the heavy weight
of snowflakes





. Daily Snow Record in my Valley in Ohaga  



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Palm tree in snow

03 snow on palm tree


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snowflakes-
grandfather's eyes
shine


Alex Serban
Romania, January 2012

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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things,
but just look at what they can do
when they stick together.


Vesta M. Kelly


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1/06/2011

cold day

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cold sunlight -
sparkling snowflakes fall
from the blue sky



Even the daily high is below freezing point.



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12/25/2010

Christmas Day

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Christmas Day -
the snowflakes dance
in cold sunshine



The nightly minus was 3, the daily warm is now
plus zero ...
and few more days like this to come.

The Sea of Japan side is enjoying heavy snowfalls.




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virtual gifts
with no wrappings ...
eco christmas




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2/03/2010

snow sunshine

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snowflakes dance
in early monring sunshine -
a child is born



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3/05/2008

snow and sunshine

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snowflakes
dancing in sunshine -
a change of seasons





steep roof -
the snow melts
before it slips



(Usually, the snow slips down in noisy avalanches from the roof!)



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MORE
. . . SNOW in this winter !



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2/17/2008

strong storm

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strong storm -
a bird whirls by
amongst the snowflakes




it was so small and seemed to have completely lost control over its navigation system ...


Japan still in the grips of an arctic cold spell of considerable lenght !



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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
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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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1/18/2008

snowflakes

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early morning -
such tiny snowflakes
racing through sunrays




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Usually our snowflakes are rather large and heavy and wet.
This morning, they were really tiny ... and the sunshine from the side made them look like little diamond dust !
This amazing blizzard lasted for about half an hour before the sunshine won the day.



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7/03/2007

grains of sand

  
  








 
beach park -
these grains of sand look
really different











浜遊び 変わるがわるは 砂の粒 






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beach walk -
each grain of sand
looks different


You are of course right in remarking that we can not watch the sand closely whilst walking ... in Japanese, I use "hama asobi", playing at the beach, enjoying the beach, a kigo for summer.

Well, it was a leisure walk, not an exercise one, whilst I was taking lots of photos, bending down, on my knees most of the time. Closely watching the different kinds of grains, different colors and marvelling at the shapes. Their reflection of ths sunshine let them look like little diamonds at times.

Lunch taken whilst sitting in the sand showed us more of these miniature marvels, sticking to the fingers and food too ....


I would need a much better macro lens to capture these individual grains. Maybe next time.

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Of course the plain statement is just a cliche, since we all know that snowflakes and grains of sand are different.

We KNOW in our educated minds ... but how many of us grown-ups have really leisurely bent down to the sand, looked at it for a while and then experienced the difference of the sand grains really personally ?

It is nothing spectacular indeed, just another wheel invented again and again, if the inner child is out there to marvel at things.


.................... A friend remarked this :

.. your first line; it doesn't add much to the poem. if you were to come up with another first line to contrast or compare with the thoughts of lines 2 & 3 ...

Dear friend,
my first line includes the kigo and I do not want to change that. I am not a friend of forced juxtapositions, that do not fit the experience when the haiku was conceived. I do not like to add some kind of first line for the sake of special effects.
I do like the ordinary in haiku, after all, my daily life is quite ordinary, grin ...

By the way, today, after a long period of rain, maybe I paraphrase this (with a BIG smile)

rainy season -
these drops of rain look
really similar



Last night I watched a tea master explaining a bit of his WAY. While the visitor sits there in the small room of two tatami mats (not much bigger that a large cupboard), he holds his hands in his lap so that the thumbs touch lightly and tries to relax. In good time he will quieten down his heart and become aware of the small things around him, the simmering water cattle, the pattern of the tatami mats, the breath of his fellow tea friends ... and somehow the smallness of the room can transform to a large universe in his heart and mind ...
Once the judgemental mind is quiet, you can experience the whole universe in a small tea room ...

just one cup of tea
served the right way
enfolding universes




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scots translation:

daunerin the links -
ilka dottle o saun
leuks unalik


John McDonald

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Gabi, once I wrote:

each grain // thinks it is the sandcastle // the tide rises.

But now, while I'm inspecting each 'contrary' grain, I'll remember your good lines.
_Magyar

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Romanian translation:

plimbare pe plaja
fiecare graunte de nisip
arata altfel

Vasile Moldovan


WHW comments


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Observing snow falling
yuki no metsuki 雪の目つき


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natsuyama ya yoku kumo kakari yoku haruru

summer mountains -
sometimes in the clouds
sometimes in sunshine

Takahama Kyoshi 高浜 虚子

This is a haiku of extreme objectivity. There is a sense of spaciousness in it. I also like the fact that the observation takes place over a summer-long period of time. I like haiku that include a sense of time passing, if for no other reason than to confound those who cling to the notion that a haiku should only be about an "a-ha 'moment'."

Larry Bole
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a Malayalam translation

venal malakal -
palappozhum meghangalil
palappozhum soorya-prakaashathil


and a Sanskrit translation

greeshma parvathaani-
bahu-vaare megheshu
bahu-vaare soorya-prakaashe

Narayanan Raghunathan, India

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3/18/2007

Snowflakes on thin ice

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old stone basin -
a sprinkle of snowflakes
on thin ice



cold March morning -
some buds of my apricots
start peeking



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Look at the Circle of Life
Stone Basin


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I hope its true -
a good word melts
the cold of this March


..... take care of your words .....
a winter meditation





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2/17/2007

Thoughts like Snowflakes

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thoughts
drifting like snowflakes
through my mind


rural Japan -
an empty train fades
into snowstorm


rural Japan -
the station master
feeds the cranes


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At a remote train line in Hokkaido in the far north of Japan, there are some red crested cranes (Grus japonensis) coming down to feed in the nearby fields. The station master wears a cap with the same red color and feeds them twice a day.

No train stops at this station any more, but when the cranes land to feed, the station master signals to the stations further up and down the line. The trains then slow down while passing, so as not to disturb the birds and give the passengers a good chance with their cameras !



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