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初蝉の声にあまえて朝寝坊
hatsu semi no koe ni amaete asa neboo
lulled by the voice
of the first cicada ...
I sleep longer
The rainy season is over at last,
now even the animals make this anouncement.
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7/18/2010
7/16/2010
bees and lavender
 anybody home ? a bumblebee searches among the lavender   |
. Lavender and My Buddha
July 2009
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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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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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7/13/2010
orange delight
 orange delight -- the rainy days continue  .................................................................................   |
I caught them in a sunny moment,
but this year, there is plenty of
. Rain in my Valley
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. flowers of the daylily, kanzoo no hana
萱草の花 （かんぞうのはな）
Kwanso
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QUOTE : facing blank paper
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Facing blank paper
is an artist's terror.
When an artist creates, he or she is like a shaman. Inspiration comes as a gift. Those who follow Tao are the same. Their awareness is not something they have cleverly formulated, nor is it something that they possess.
Tao comes to them like a gift.
That is why the arts and Tao are so closely allied.
The act of receiving and expressing is the same.
Just as an artist dreads not being able to make art, so too does one who follows Tao dread not feeling Tao.
There are many times when we are called upon to be creative; an athlete on the field, a lecturer before an audience, a musician on stage, a cook at the stove, a parent with a child. How do we keep the channel open? Some people try by maintaining tidy and regular lives, others by being constantly active. We are all different, and there is no right or wrong. The only thing that counts is feeling Tao in your own life and maintaining that feeling as much of the time as possible. If you find those special things that are latent in you and learn to express them, then you will know Tao.
365 Tao Daily Meditations
Deng Ming-Dao (author)
ISBN 0-06-250223-9
source : duckdaotsu.blogspot.com
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haiku is like a gift -
the act of receiving and expressing
is the same
Can you find the five ants ?
. . . three ants are here
. . . two ants are here
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Facing blank paper
is an artist's terror.
When an artist creates, he or she is like a shaman. Inspiration comes as a gift. Those who follow Tao are the same. Their awareness is not something they have cleverly formulated, nor is it something that they possess.
Tao comes to them like a gift.
That is why the arts and Tao are so closely allied.
The act of receiving and expressing is the same.
Just as an artist dreads not being able to make art, so too does one who follows Tao dread not feeling Tao.
There are many times when we are called upon to be creative; an athlete on the field, a lecturer before an audience, a musician on stage, a cook at the stove, a parent with a child. How do we keep the channel open? Some people try by maintaining tidy and regular lives, others by being constantly active. We are all different, and there is no right or wrong. The only thing that counts is feeling Tao in your own life and maintaining that feeling as much of the time as possible. If you find those special things that are latent in you and learn to express them, then you will know Tao.
365 Tao Daily Meditations
Deng Ming-Dao (author)
ISBN 0-06-250223-9
source : duckdaotsu.blogspot.com
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haiku is like a gift -
the act of receiving and expressing
is the same
Can you find the five ants ?
. . . three ants are here
. . . two ants are here
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7/01/2010
Ladies in Waiting
 all dressed up and whispering by the roadside - Ladies in Waiting  |
These few flowers stand at the side of a lonely road, halfway in a bamboo grove, maybe three, four people pass here regularly.
The old grandmother, who cares for them, lives much further down the valley. So they are really waiting to be seen.
On that day I took some friends for my usual walk and the flowers seemed soooo pleased with the new visitors ... :)
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. Iris (ayame, shoobu, kakitsubata, airisu)
KIGO
花菖蒲
including Daruma Dolls with Iris design
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Ooku no O-Tsubone sama
お局 大奥
Waiting for the Shogun at Edo castle
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6/30/2010
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almost like TWITTER
he encourages folks to communicate ...
Nobo san
Here is a bit I wrote a while ago about
. Masaoka Shiki 正岡子規
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Today, June 30, in the Japan Times
"In finding fulfillment in expressing
what's on your mind for the moment,
Twitter is like haiku,
It is so Japanese."
Rocky Eda, manager for Digital Garage
Twitter
source : By YURI KAGEYAMA, Japan Times
Twitter is a hit in Japan, succeeding where other social networking imports like Facebook have foundered as millions "mumble" — the translation of tweet — and give miniblogging a distinctly Japanese flavor.
The arrival of the Japanese-language Twitter service in 2008 tapped into a greater sense of individuality, especially among younger people less accepting of the understatement and conformity the culture is usually associated with, analysts say.
snip
Twitter estimates Japanese write nearly 8 million tweets a day, or about 12 percent of the global total. Data from Tweet Sentiments, a Web site that analyzes tweets, show Japanese are sometimes tweeting more frequently than Americans.
snip
"Twitter is turning out to be like a cocktail party," he said. "Japanese see how fun it is to network and casually connect with other people."
snip
Rocky Eda, corporate communications manager for Digital Garage, which supports Twitter's Japan operations, is thrilled people are embracing Twitter.
"In finding fulfillment in expressing what's on your mind for the moment, Twitter is like haiku," he said. "It is so Japanese."
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Googeling my own records about TWITTER, I found this one
so many twitters
of the invisible birds -
autumn afternoon
Gabi Greve, October 2009
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And one last remark:
I am not on TWITTER online.
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almost like TWITTER
he encourages folks to communicate ...
Nobo san
Here is a bit I wrote a while ago about
. Masaoka Shiki 正岡子規
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Today, June 30, in the Japan Times
"In finding fulfillment in expressing
what's on your mind for the moment,
Twitter is like haiku,
It is so Japanese."
Rocky Eda, manager for Digital Garage
source : By YURI KAGEYAMA, Japan Times
Twitter is a hit in Japan, succeeding where other social networking imports like Facebook have foundered as millions "mumble" — the translation of tweet — and give miniblogging a distinctly Japanese flavor.
The arrival of the Japanese-language Twitter service in 2008 tapped into a greater sense of individuality, especially among younger people less accepting of the understatement and conformity the culture is usually associated with, analysts say.
snip
Twitter estimates Japanese write nearly 8 million tweets a day, or about 12 percent of the global total. Data from Tweet Sentiments, a Web site that analyzes tweets, show Japanese are sometimes tweeting more frequently than Americans.
snip
"Twitter is turning out to be like a cocktail party," he said. "Japanese see how fun it is to network and casually connect with other people."
snip
Rocky Eda, corporate communications manager for Digital Garage, which supports Twitter's Japan operations, is thrilled people are embracing Twitter.
"In finding fulfillment in expressing what's on your mind for the moment, Twitter is like haiku," he said. "It is so Japanese."
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Googeling my own records about TWITTER, I found this one
so many twitters
of the invisible birds -
autumn afternoon
Gabi Greve, October 2009
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And one last remark:
I am not on TWITTER online.
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6/26/2010
rainy season
| rainy season - all the different shades of green long summer rain . . . the weeds grow wild with every drop |
... Rainy Season (tsuyu) Japan
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6/23/2010
first firefly
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初蛍月もちょっと顔をだす
first firefly -
the moon also shows
his face
Fireflies (hotaru) ... KIGO
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初蛍月もちょっと顔をだす
first firefly -
the moon also shows
his face
Fireflies (hotaru) ... KIGO
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6/17/2010
fried onions
| trying to loose weight - the lingering fragrance of dried fried onions  |
. tamanegi 玉葱 (たまねぎ) round onion
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6/15/2010
rain
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rain
less rain, more rain
much more rain
The rainy season started with quite a BANG.
We managed finally to get all the gutters cleared,
water rushing down everywhere like little rivulets.
http://weather.yahoo.co.jp/weather/raincloud/
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rain
less rain, more rain
much more rain
The rainy season started with quite a BANG.
We managed finally to get all the gutters cleared,
water rushing down everywhere like little rivulets.
http://weather.yahoo.co.jp/weather/raincloud/
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6/14/2010
tsuchinoko
| tsuchi no ko ya do I find you in my garden or in my kitchen ?  |
. "Hammerspawn" (tsuchinoko ツチノコ or 槌の子)
Have some fun with this monsterlin !
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6/12/2010
bamboo
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sudden gusts -
the highest bamboo
sways longest
We have some beautiful weather lately and the bamboo is growing everywhere.
The bamboo grove just on the other side of the valley is shining in golden colors.
And many bamboo shoots have been eaten by the wild boars after I had captured them on photo.
sharp nails
of a bamboo shoot ...
and yet the boars
. take no aki <> autumn of the bamboo 竹の秋
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sudden gusts -
the highest bamboo
sways longest
We have some beautiful weather lately and the bamboo is growing everywhere.
The bamboo grove just on the other side of the valley is shining in golden colors.
And many bamboo shoots have been eaten by the wild boars after I had captured them on photo.
sharp nails
of a bamboo shoot ...
and yet the boars
. take no aki <> autumn of the bamboo 竹の秋
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6/04/2010
thirty years
 thirty years of living together - all these shades of pink  |
The kigo is implied in the photo
Peony (botan 牡丹 )
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6/03/2010
roses and worms
 a rose with many wormholes ... haiku life |
The story about the worms is here
. copyright worries
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