
image posted in response to Nancy Merrill Photography weekly photo challenge

image posted in response to Nancy Merrill Photography weekly photo challenge
How did this picnic table end up in this empty field?
What possible reason would someone want to have a picnic in this particular place?
How does one enjoy having a picnic in an open field with no shade?

Why would someone put a picnic table on a curve so close to a dirt road?
I think that one’s lunch would become very unpleasant when they found themselves in a dust cloud stirred up by a passing truck.

Is there a final destination for this picnic table?

“…’when I looked out, opening the sliding door on the corridor, I saw the morning moon very faint and beautiful,’ …”
~The Sarashina Dairy (cited: Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan)

Weekend skies with Hammad Rais
stop again!
with your lantern stop!
a green insect ~Issa*

*cited: haikuguy.com
edited in Capture One and Photoshop

In the attitude, and with the manner, of the woman of old,
Full of grief, she stands in the glorious morning light.
The dew is like the tears of to-day;
The mosses like the garments of years ago.
Her resentment is that of the Woman of the Hsiang River;
Her silence that of the concubine of the King of Ch’u.
Still and solitary in the sweet-scented mist,
As if waiting for her husband’s return. ~ Li Tai-po*


Early morning mist submitted in response to Cee’s CBWC challenge: weather
*Cited (Fir-Flower Tablets Poems Translated from the Chinese, Various Author Project Gutenberg)

image submitted in response to Cee’s flower of the day



Hop on over to Nancy Merrill Photography to join her weekly challenge: photos with multiple shapes within the image.
wild geese —
between their cries, a slice
of silence ~Katsura Nobuko*

*cited: Makoto Ueda, Far Beyond the Field
a clear view
in the soup kettle…
Milky Way ~Issa*






Thank you Sofia (Photographias) for this week’s lens-artists photo challenge
*cited: haikuguy.com
Beyond the clouds
My gaze goes on and on;
The endless sea:
What lies beyond is unknown
As my gloomy thoughts…
~Lord Suetsune (cited: http://www.wakapoetry.net)

sparrow… Apple iPad f/1.8 1/12000s 20 ISO
Weekend skies with Hammad Rais
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