3/09/2010

late snow

  
  









late spring snow -
the bamboo cracks
in despair






snowclouds over Japan


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heavy snow ---
the bamboo bends
deeper









next morning - - -
a ray of hope
behind the bamboo



18 rays of hope take two





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40 more bent branches END




39 branches down to earth








This snow is very heavy and damaging for the plants.

I hope to be out for photos later, now it is six in the morning
and I hear the sound of breaking branches outside.

The bamboo in the grove hang their heads soooo low !

And more snow in the forecast until tomorrow !




. LOOK at more photos HERE !  


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6 comments:

flickr album said...

how supreme the budda looks
covered with snow sprit!
Ah awesome

dejanome

flickr album said...

This is gorgeous... what a great shot for poetry!

Don

old pajamas said...

Dr.,

What a moving haiku! Thank you.....old pajamas

Gabi Greve said...

thanks, old pajamas, for your kind words.
Today finally we have sunshine and the thaw begins ... but slowly.

And the big gingko tree in Kamakura has fallen ... what a storm that was !

Gabi

facebook said...

Gabi-sama, just wrote something with bamboo bent in snow in it yesterday.
Two haiku, one by Buson and easy to find and one I had searched out from Chiyo's zenshu which might be hard to find are pasted below in japanese

愚に耐へよと窓を暗うす雪の竹 
蕪村 貧居八詠より

雪で曲がった竹の傑作は、千代女の「そっと来る物に気づくや竹の雪」となるが、上記の蕪村句の方が狂句。

Robin Gill

facebook said...

Wonderful photos. Reminds me of what we just went through.
Merrill Gonzales

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