‘… if you were in some prison the walls of which let none of the sounds of the world come to your senses—would you not then still have your childhood, that precious, kingly possession, that treasure-house of memories.” Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet. Pg. 17.
Paula’s Words of Wisdom (Lost in Translation) challenge
while they were away
leaves pile up
in the gardens of the gods ~Basho
Fujifilm X-TR. F/4. 1/680 s. 16.5 mm. 160 ISO
Pale green night and flowers all melting into one
in the soft haze–
Everywhere the moon, glimmering in the Spring night. ~ The Sarashina Diary
Color of the flower
Has already faded away,
While in idle thoughts
My life passes vainly by,
As I watch the long rains fall. ~ Ono no Komachi
A fallen flower
Flew back to its perch
A butterfly ~Moritake
Since you went away
No flowers are left on earth ~ Sôseki
Within one memory is my mother sharing with me her favorite flower, Sweet Peas. Within another, is watching her caring for a Venus Flytrap.
This week Ann-Christine (Leya To See a World in a Grain of Sand) invites lens-artist to share their favorite flowers and plants and their silent stories.
After I contemplated this week’s photo challenge, I find that I don’t have a favorite flower. I do though have private memories tuck away into blossoms. I also call upon flowers placed upon memorial stones to message grief that lives within the love that lives beyond time.
May all places be held sacred.
May all beings be cherished.
May all injustices of oppression and devaluation
be fully righted, remedied and healed.
May all wounds to forests, rivers, deserts, oceans,
all wounds to Mother Earth be lovingly restored to bountiful health.
May all beings everywhere delight in whale song, birdsong and blue sky.
May all beings abide in peace and well-being, awaken and be free.
colors of autumn
currents of shrouded – past times
monarch butterfly
backdrop of autumn… Fujifilm X-T4: f/4 1/640s 80mm 160 ISO Edited: Capture One
Cee’s cmmc: october autumn colors
waiting for autumn…
Compared to last year,
this has even more loneliness —
autumn evening ~Buson (Haiku Master Buson, Trans: Y Sawa & E Shiffert)
Fujifilm X-T4: f/4 . 1/30 s . 21.2 mm . 640 ISO
Fujifilm X-T4: f/4 . 1/100 s . 65.2 mm . 1250 ISO
Fujifilm X-T4: f/4 . 1/105 s . 69.8 mm . 2000 ISO
Three apples = 1 subject three ways submitted for Patti’s (P.A.Moed) lens-artists challenge.
two blue plaid shirts
one in a darkened window –
blurry reflection
oatmeal with walnuts
Mother Earth, sunshine, and rain –
in my breakfast bowl
your dad, uncle, and grandpa …. not quite touching the green leaves half-way to the top of a tree. Though, I do imagine an ant would believe it touched the blue-blue sky.
Nearby a yellow garden spider lunching on a white butterfly … sunflower yellow.
Fuji X-T4 … f/4 . 1/750 . 32.5mm . 160 ISO Edited: Capture One
“Outwardly we are being torn apart and the paths to each other lie buried under so much debris that we often fail to find the person we seek.”
Etty Hillesum, An Interrupted Life, pg. 149)
a meditative journey 
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