blade of grass

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The moment one gives close attention to anything,
even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome,
indescribably magnificent world in itself.

Henry Miller


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草一葉　雪に負われての緑かな


a small blade of grass
covered with snow
still green





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wild boar hunter

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heavy snowfall -
his funeral
in black and white



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He lived in the valley next to ours, tending to a whole valley of terraced rice fields. And in winter, he was out there with his dogs and hunter friends, to get some of the wild boars that destroy so much of the local crops here ...




I have written about him here
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Wild Boars right next to my home, 2005




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snow meditation

snow snow snow - my meditation continues

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With the Weather Forecast for the next 7 days ...



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Let it snow !


Just when my snow-phobia was getting the better of me, I found this lovely



©　Let it snow !
Exhibition at Kaikodo

Check it out!


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Since some of you asked ...


TIBET : Thumo reskiang:
lamaic art of self-heating

David-Neel studied this art. She saw hermits who sat meditating outside, naked upon snowbanks night after night, with blizzards whirling around them; she saw students of the discipline pass tests by drying on their bodies icy sheets fresh-dipped from Himalayan lakes in midwinter. P. 133, she meditates in the thumo rite, not only to warm herself but to dry flint and tinder so she can light a fire.

Putting them under her dress, she sits and envisions flames rising, crackling around her, until it seems she can see them and she felt deliciously warm. When something made her start awake, she seemed to see the flames die down as if entering the ground, and opening her eyes she found her body burning, her face cherry red and her eyes bright, and the tinder and flint were dry and hot.
http://www.iras.ucalgary.ca/~volk/sylvia/Tib.htm

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Camellia in Snow

wax forsythia in snow

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heavy snow again

*　　* * * * * * * * * * heavy snowfall - gray in gray the whole day

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Shoveling endless piles of snow ...


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Cats in Kitchen

snow snow snow - the cats sleep in the kitchen Haiku Kun peeking O-Tsu

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LOOK AT THEM !
. . . Our Cats in Paradise - O-Tsu and Haiku-kun



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more icicles

long icicles - the frogs frozen in mid-air

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snow and icicles

midnight - the icicles grow steadily ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo early morning meditation in snow and sunshine

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Enjoy my snow !
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Icicles

icicles - the joy of catching the right moment with my foxes with my badger Tanuki

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. . . The next morning is HERE !


Winter in my garden
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snowy evening

winter evening - the snowclouds hide my mountains empty bird branch - so cold and wet and wintery

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Basho Daruma

芭蕉　だるま Basho Daruma ! the missing link between my friends ! Daruma sama Oku Hosomichi no Bashoo kana

©　Photo from Kuro San / 黒さん絵日記


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This Basho Daruma is an unexpected find in the WWW!


ダルマさんがころんだ　道草の森　　
キミとボクの夢の跡　

Natsukusa Dayori 夏草だより～
http://slowbiz.exblog.jp/11444867/



Basho Memorial Day (Basho-Ki) Japan



It is cold and rainy outside today, but I fell like christmas and new year have come again with this wonderful Basho Daruma find !!


Now Lary tells me:

Indeed, the year has not yet drawn to its close if Christams and New Year's Day have come again! I am reminded of a haiku of Basho's, and a haiku in response by Buson:

toshi kurenu kasa kite waraji hakinagara

The year draws to its close:
I am still wearing
My kasa and straw sandals.

Basho, trans. Blyth

bashoo satte sono nochi imada toshi kurezu

Since Basho left the world,
Not yet has
"The year drawn to its close."

or

Basho left us,
And since then,
The year has not drawn to its close.

Buson, trans. Blyth



年暮れぬ笠着て草鞋はきながら
toshi kurenu kasa kite waraji hakinagara
. Matsuo Basho 松尾芭蕉 - Archives of the WKD .


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Basho travelling in Japan

. Matsuo Basho 松尾芭蕉 - Archives of the WKD .


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snowed in

snowed in - the bamboo hangs its head so low visitors ... The Terraced Rice Fields - Tanada

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More SNOW photos from today are in my ALBUM ! till Nr. 34



more of my SNOW haiku


the bamboo is maybe just a second before breaking ...
yuki-ore, a kigo



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Heavy Snow

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大雪のおそれありての南無阿弥陀


we are expecting heavy snow tonight ...
namu amida


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Updated Jan 20, 2008 8:00 PM
Current Okayama Weather Conditions

Moderate Snow Moderate Fog
Temperature: 0°C Dew Point: 0°C
Barometer: 102.1 kPa Wind: ENE 5 km/h
Humidity: 100 % Visibility: 0.6 km

http://www.weathercity.com/jp/okayama/



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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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two demons

winter visitors - two friendly demons smile at me

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般若 ... Hanya . Hannya Masks of Japan
More ONLINE Photos

Hannya Masks / Wikipedia




Demons and Hungry Ghosts and Haiku

Daruma and Japanese Ghosts


and soon we have the DEMONS OUT .. Festival of Setsubun
February 3 !


. Men, omote 面 masks of Japan .



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