Today is the last day of Rick Daddario’s 30DOH challenge, which can be found at 19 Planets Art Blog! It’s been great fun and now I hope to continue – experimenting with new techniques!
For today’s haiga … a meeting of friends:
walking this morning
your lovely eyes met mine
– namaste
(c) G.s.k. ’14
Walking and thinking and sometimes shooting a photograph … for 30DOH:
hazy morning
thoughts of safe harbors
lost in dreams
(c) G.s.k. ’14
As I near the end of this challenge … I think how delightful it has been to put together haiku and photography in this gratifying manner … it’s really been a lot of fun! Thanks once again to Rick of 19 Planets Art Blog for this great yearly challenge … my second! Here’s today’s 30DOH:
an instant
echo of sunshine –
passing
(c) G.s.k. ’14
For 30 DOH … I went for a walk in the olive groves above the “frazione” of Massoni, which like Bolognano where I live was once a town but is now part of Arco, I came across this fence:
in the olive grove
stands a gate without a fence
– enlightenment
(c) G.s.k. ’14
For 30 DOH:
first light
in the eastern sky
Aurora!
(c) G.s.k. ’14
Ah … ice-cream … for 30DOH I created a comic book haiga … dedicated to ice-cream:
summer memories
ice-cream cones and memories
near the river
(c) G.s.k. ’14
The other day I was in a still-life mood and did several haiga from a series of photographs I’d taken .. one I used for my Waka Library as an illustration haiga for “nothing” … today I’ll show you another with its variation:
autumn morning
lights and shadows play
in an empty room
G.s.k. ’14
contemplating …
shadows of the morning
an empty room
G.s.k. ’14
These were inspired by this fantastic haiku by Sodo, offered to us by Carpe Diem Haiku Kai:
yado no haru nanimo koso nanimo are
in my hut this spring,
there is nothing, –
there is everything!
© Sodo (1642-1716)
Which do you prefer? I couldn’t choose.
For today’s 30DOH … a little quiet companionship:
autumn morning
companionable silence
flower boats sail
(c) G.s.k. ’14
This morning my mind is dull .. but this photo is pretty bright! Here for 30DOH I’m posting a water fountain I saw yesterday, and as I like water fountains I photographed it. What you don’t see is the spider’s web that was hanging down from it (which I was hoping to catch but it doesn’t show):
spider’s web
on the dried up fountain
autumn leaves
(c) G.s.k. ’14
The first apples of the season arrived at our house the other evening … beautiful, crisp and tart! For 30 DOH apples:
autumn harvest
first apples of the season
mouth puckering
(c) G.s.k. ’14
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