Oh leaves, ask the wind which of you
Will be the first to fall. ~Soseki*

Nikon D750 f/5.6 1/400 200m 100 ISO
*cited in Jonathan Clements, The Moon in the Pines
Oh leaves, ask the wind which of you
Will be the first to fall. ~Soseki*

Nikon D750 f/5.6 1/400 200m 100 ISO
*cited in Jonathan Clements, The Moon in the Pines
A single leaf falls,
then suddenly another,
stolen by the breeze ~Ransetsu

in a stream of thoughts
a memory rippling,
languishing, soothing.

Libby Creek in Medicine Bow National Forest

Thus you can throw yourself flat on the ground, stretched out upon Mother Earth, with the certain conviction that you are one with her and she with you. You are as firmly established, as invulnerable as she, indeed a thousand times firmer and more invulnerable. As surely as she will engulf you tomorrow, so surely will she bring you forth anew to new striving and suffering. And not merely ‘some day’: now, today, every day she is bringing you forth, not once but thousands upon thousands of times, just as every day she engulfs you a thousand times over. For eternally and always there is only now, one and the same now, the present is the only thing and that has no end.
~Edwin Schrödinger (My View of the World)

Cache la Poudre River… Nikon D750 f/5.6 13s 24mm 100 ISO

Nikon D750 f/7.1 1/800s 24m 100 ISO
Every time
These thoughts emerge at
Izumi River,
Awaiting the moon;
There was one who crossed before…
~Shunzei gosha hyakushu (cited: http://www.wakapoetry.net)

Ripples…Nikon D750 F/7.1 1/13s 45mm 100 ISO
Image submitted in response to Traveling at Wits End’s photo challenge.
The peaks of clouds
Have crumbled into fragments–
The moonlit mountain.
~Basho (Trans: D. Keene, The Narrow Road to Oku)

Cameron Pass… Nikon D750 f/7.1 1/800 80 mm 125 ISO


Nikon D750 f/5.6 1/2.000 300m 100 ISO
The seventh month–
Even the sixth does not seem,
Like a usual night.
~Basho (D Keene, The Narrow Road to Oku)

horsetooth reservoir Nikon D750 f/5 1/2,000 78m 100 ISO
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