Kannon Lily 2008 / 2009

My "Kannon Lily July 2009 " thunder and sunshine - my garden awaits both bud with raindrops - still waiting for a haiku to bud

More Photos of 2009


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My "Kannon Lily July 2008" I also live from day to day - Kannon Lily ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Life in the Lily "Kannon Lily" ... still waiting for a haiku to bud

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Read WHY I call this stargazer lily a KANNON !
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Comments from friends:

This is a beauty Gabi!!
A masterpiece, no doubt!
K.


This one is not the day lily,
kanzoo day lily is here
http://wkdkigodatabase03.blogspot.com/2007/06/daylily-kanzoo.html

The flowers last a bit longer than one day.
This year was NO rain or storm during her time of flowering, so she was especially beautiful .
The smell welcomed me every morning when opening the door !
And she had many little beetles visiting during daytime.
GABI



It is of course a Stargazer.
As I had written some years ago about "my friend"
"To me, she looks live an eleven-headed Kannon Bosatsu."

The daililies really blossom only one day, whereas my KANNON keeps a few "heads" for a few days (I am still hoping to catch her with 11 heads ...).
. . . My Kannon Lily 2004
GABI


I also live
from day to day
lily



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my Kannon-Lily -
raindrops sparkling
in the night


. Lily, yuri 百合 (ゆり) and KIGO


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potluck

the star mandala of a little cactus - roadside potluck

Take a walk with me


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tanada finger

green fields -a finger points in the right direction

Take a walk in the Tanada fields of Ohaga


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studying alzheimer -
a finger points
in the right direction



This plant is kuzu (arrowroot), and some say its powder (used as a kind of starch in Japanese sauces) might help the brain ...
AHA


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WKD - lavender

more rain - lavender leans on the stone Buddha

. Deep in lavender
my lavender in 2007


. Buddha and lavender - June 2012 .



. Bumblebee in my lavender
2010


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rabendaa ラベンダー lavender
Lavandula augustifolia
kigo for summer
Lavender is not listed in the big saijiki, but it is generally accepted as a kigo for summer.
http://www.a.zaq.jp/haiku/70/70_008.htm
http://www.ibukinet.jp/kigo/kigo07.html




The Lavenders
Lavandula are a genus of 39 species of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae, native to the Mediterranean region south to tropical Africa and to the southeast regions of India.
Because the cultivated forms are planted in gardens world-wide, they are occasionally found growing wild, as garden escapees, well beyond their natural range.
Lavender flowers yield abundant nectar which yields a high-quality honey for beekeepers.
Chefs in and around Provence, France, have been incorporating this herb into their cuisine for centuries, either alone or as an ingredient of herbes de Provence. Lavender lends a floral, slightly sweet, and elegant flavour to most dishes, and pairs beautifully with various sheep's and goat's cheeses.
English lavender, Lavandula angustifolia, yields an essential oil with sweet overtones, and can be used in balms, salves, perfumes, cosmetics, and topical applications
©　More in the WIKIPEDIA !



夢ひとつ叶ひし今朝のラベンダー　
yume hitotsu kanaishi kesa no rabendaa

one dream at least
came true - the lavender
of this morning

Tashiro Toshi 田代登志
Tr. Gabi Greve


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tension headache
different bees work
the lavender bush

Alan Summers

1. Six Years of Simply Haiku: Retrospective Selections 2003-2008,
(Eleven Themes) Selected by Richard Gilbert Spring 2009, vol 7 no 1
2. The Haiku Calendar 2004 Snapshots Press ISBN 1-903543-07-X
3. Simply Haiku: September 2003, Vol. 1, No. 3
kigo hotline

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WASHOKU
The taste of lavender in Japanese food 　
Lavendel



murasaki 紫 ... the color of lavender in haiku



My Lavender
July 2008


. My Lavender in 2010
waiting for the morning sun 　　



My Stone Buddha
with more haiku


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My Garden in the Rain

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early morning
pink clouds
of lavender

Gennady Nov



just before dawn
there's nothing else -
incense of lavender

Hideo Suzuki


- Shared at Joys of Japan, FB, 2013 -

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hortensia

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more rain -
the hortensia droops her head
deeper


mehr Regen -
die Hortensie hängt ihren Kopf
tiefer


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memories

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summer visitor -
we swap memories
of the bad old days



Heidelberg University, 1967 ...



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mildew

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scrubbing tiles -
the mind focused on
mold and haiku




Mildew, mold (kabi) 　
and the rainy season 　


focussed mind
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Curry Daruma

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snowman daruma -
another vision of
curry rice








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Daruma Curry だるまカレー 　




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backyard

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the backyard
of a poor man's home -
summer heat




Many started growing vegetables in pots now
to get over the recession ...






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no fireflies

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every night I go outside and check for them, but tonight was special



no fireflies -
only moonlight reflects
on camellia leaves




It looked as if they were hiding in the bush,
changing with my every move.



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diamoment

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dewdrop haiku -
a diamoment frozen
in my words






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diamond moment ... diamoment




the Diamond Sutra
kongookyoo 金剛経





diamond scepter
dorje, kongoshoo 金剛杵





diamond bell
kongoorei 金剛鈴





diamond world mandala
kongookai mandala 金剛界曼荼羅



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to paraphrase Decartes

I think
therefore I am confused -
aah, the rainy season



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all the birds

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early summer morning
I am
all the birds




autumn sunset
I am
all the colors




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Philosophy or not ?

Instead of regarding Heaven as great and admiring it,
Why not foster it as a thing and regulate it?

Instead of obeying Heaven and singing praise to it.
Why not control the Mandate of Heaven and use it?

Instead of looking on the seasons and waiting for them,
Why not respond to them and make use of them?

Instead of letting things multiply by themselves,
Why not exercise your ability to transform [and increase] them?

Instead of thinking about things as things,
Why not attend to them so you won't lose them?

Instead of admiring how things come into being,
Why not do something to bring them to a fun development?

Hsun Tzu, Han-Dynasty period

quote from
A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy
Wing-Tsit Chan
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1963


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green frog

a green frog on a green leaf - that's it ! green frog mandala

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You may have met my friend and his extended family:
Karl the Froggie 　　


Karl and Karlina are amagaeru あまがえる green tree frogs.
They are only about 2 cm long and everywhere in our garden.
Hyla japonica


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comment from a friend
LOL
I love the two readings I got from this. The first - that it took the observer a moment to see the distinction of the frog from the leaf and L3 is the ah ha moment. LOL
The other is that the green frog on the green leaf is all that one can see and it is ALL green.
That's it! Nothing but green.
. . . from M san, 2009



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haiku karuta -
study your culture
while you play







KARUTA
card games with poems or letters to match an image.

KARUTA ... kigo for the New Year


HAIKU KARUTA 俳句かるた / 俳句カルタ



WASHOKU
Karuta with vegetables, fish and other food


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Oku no Hosomichi - Karuta 奥の細道かるた

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

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Daruma Karuta　禅語かるた「だるま」
A set of karuta with Zen teachings, named DARUMA

from Hanasono Daigaku University 花園大学






source :　www.zenbunka.or.jp/zenken


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talisman

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summer at the shrine -
he buys a talisman
to keep his job


We live in hard times, and the Shinto shrines are making good business of it.
The Japanese are very fond of talismans.

You can buy a talisman for anything, from keeping your cell phone well, to improving the condition of your computer, from loosing your job ...




Look at some of them, with DARUMA




Greetings from recession in Japan
Gabi


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