Is my mind elsewhere
Or has it simply not sung?
Hototogisu
~Ihara Saikaku (1642-1693)*
creating images
Weekly Photo Challenge: A Day in My Life. Another multi-photo challenge! Make sure you include picture captions to explain to people what they’re seeing, and experiment with the tiled galleries.
*Hototogisu, translated as cuckoo, wood thrush and sometimes nightingale.
The bird’s song is a strong but mournful cry.
It is said to die after singing 8,008 times.
It is also known as the “bird of time,”
“messenger of death” and “bird of disappointed love,”
and flies back and forth from this world to the next.
Confucian axiom: If one’s mind is elsewhere, one will look but not see, listen but not hear
cited in:
The Classic Tradition of Haiku
Edited by: Faubion Bowers
a meditative journey 
Very lovely-the minimal use of color is very powerful within this group of images.
thank you … I enjoy reading your comments. The “minimal use of color” hold a message that my days (or my thinking) is not so black and white. 🙂
Very very true! And what A wonderful way to keep that reminder constant. I needed that reminder myself today.
The photo of your dog reminds me of my cat waiting for the birds to appear in the tree outside our apartment 🙂
If only … I had the same mindful presence 🙂
I like the last photo…:) So tropical.
thank you 🙂
You’re welcome
Beautiful pics and love your dog.
thank you … Irish Terriers are known as stubborn with limited “trainable” qualities 🙂
nice clicks. is spring transition from indoor plant?
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Thank you for visiting …. The image is of a cherry tree’s – spring buds and autumn leaves – in my backyard 🙂
Beautiful photographs Brenda.
Thank you, Jeff 🙂
A cuckoo cries,
and through a thicket of bamboo
the late moon shines
Basho
and all eyes opened to the late moon, for a silent moment, are blind to the world’s suffering.
Interesting how b/w tells a story about life colors!
it is intriguing watch a world defined by shades of black and white slowly, as the sun announces a new day, transform into a world of color 🙂
PS: you are def my next LINK LOVE next week:)
🙂