One Month of Haiga – Haiga 29 – February 29, 2016

Hello!

Today ends my birthday tour de force!  It has been a more difficult task than I’d imagined due to some external factors, but it’s had its rewards with the challenges.

Today I’ve chosen one of my favourite spots in Riva del Garda near the port and the ancient fortress that used to protect the town from invaders. The plaza is the home of several linden trees, it was also a favourite spot of my husband’s.  He called it the cathedral.

Today’s theme is:

a favourite spot

And here is today’s haiga:

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Thanks to those of you who’ve actually come here to Through the Eye of Bastet to follow this month of haiga and to those of you who have linked up day after day keeping me company!  It’s been great to have you along for the ride!

Have a great day … and I hope I will be seeing you on future haiga adventures!  Ciao,  Georgia.

 

The Linden or Tiglio

 

 

One Month of Haiga and NaHaiWriMo – Zydeco – February 28, 2016

Hello!

This morning I was finally able to connect to the internet with no problems (let’s hope that lasts!) even though it’s raining like judgement day!

I went over to see what the prompt for NaHaiWriMo was today and found zydeco.  “Uhm …” I said “what is zydeco?” so I looked it up and found out that it’s a form of “folk” music developed in rural south Louisiana, and I was fascinated by it’s history.  So I decided to mix the daily NaHaiWriMo prompt with my haiga … though my personal theme is:

silence

based on the photo I chose for today.  It’s one of Bolognano’s major streets:

zydeco …
even the blackbird listens
fiddled creole blues

© G.s.k. ‘16

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Zydeco

One Month of Haiga – Haiga 27 – February 27, 2016

Hello World!

I’m so sorry that I’m a bit late today but I’ve been having connection problems again …

Today has been  one of those dull rainy days that just sort of dampen your spirit – I’m sure we all know them.  On a proper grey day a photograph can come out with a certain sort of dark mysterious character that can be quite inspiring.  The pitter-patter of rain falling on the roof on other rainy days can be  kind of soothing, but a dull grey wet day without character just kind of seeps into you. So my theme today is:

a moody day

The photo I’m using  is of a small plot of land just out back of my house in Bolognano.  In Italy, in small villages like the one I live in are a mix between multi-storied old houses (the basement used to be where one kept their animals and still have a stone manger  – the top floor was where silk worms used to be raised and so was full of mulberry leaves and stems – The middle floors is where the family lived) and vineyards.  The photograph itself is partially blurred by raindrops that fell on the lens.

 

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Have a great evening and I hope to see you earlier tomorrow!  Bastet

Silk Worm Farming in Italy

One Month of Haiga – Haiga 25, February 25, 2016

Hello!

There’s something particularly beautiful about swans.  If you’ve ever had much to do with swans,  you’ll know that they are not really friendly birds, especially in the breeding season.  I remember a scene where a Japanese tourist was trying to photograph a family of swans, the male hissed him soundly and when he refused to back off charged the man.  Swans are also a symbol of monogamy.  When a swan loses its mate, they often refuse to mate again with a substitute (though this is not always true, see the link below)  so a lone swan is a sad sight to see, except in the winter when the young are full-grown and off on their own.  At this point swans often take some alone time unlike what happens once the brooding urge comes upon them again.   I think this  is very sensible of the swans but most people don’t realize this and think sad thoughts of separation 😉 .

Today’s theme isn’t about swans though,  the swan info  and all the meanings we attach to the birds came to mind as I looked at the photo I’ve chosen for today.  However not everyone has a handy swan about so today’s theme is:

Clouds

Your clouds might be the bright fluffy kind, that remind you of animals, or dark brooding kind like just before a storm.  There are oodles of things to do with clouds .. and of course they’re not assigned to just one season.  Here’s my haiga:

 

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I’d like to apologize for not commenting and acknowledging your posts.  My Internet was spotty all day yesterday, I’m hoping that today things will be different!  I’d like to thank all you who have kept participating through thick and thin!

Have a great day and ciao!  Bastet

 

Swans

One Month of Haiga – Haiga 24 – February 24, 2016

Hello!

Well, I’m finally back home and the first: “yep this is really home” greeting I got was the Internet being off-line!  But my slow old clunky Internet has finally returned.  I’m going to use yet another photo I snapped in Padua … this one was taken with the flash mechanism of my camera, quite unintentionally, but this caused an aspect to be pulled out that the other photos of the same scene failed to capture, the street directions.  Seeing them to the fore brought an idea to mind … today’s theme therefore is –

Direction

And here is the haiga that I created for the theme:

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4 Lessons on How to Find the Right Direction in Life By Bob Miglani

One Month of Haiga – February 23, 2016

Hello!

Well my personal challenge is rapidly growing to its conclusion, there will only be six more haiga to create and then we pass onward to March, the month that hosts the spring equinox!  I was trying to take photos in the growing dark and I took two of the moon-rise.  This is of course the last moon of winter, I suddenly realized and so wrote a haiga about that.  Today’s theme is:

  last wintry events

As I said, I chose the last full moon of this season, but, you might want to write about something else, like the last snow storm.  Here is my haiga for today:

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Have a great day – ciao!  Bastet

 

One Month of Haiga – February 22, 2016

Hello!

Yesterday I didn’t have a chance to take photos as I was busy with the Lame del Conte, my historical re-enactment club.  But the photos I’d taken the night before have left me with a wonderful choice of photos to work with.

I love sunsets, something much more difficult to see in a mountain valley than here in the plains.   Here the sun seems to literally erupt into colourful shades of yellow, pink and blue.  In a winter sunset you also have trees and bushes that make a lovely sketch against the coloured sky.  The photo I chose has all that plus the electric train wires of the Milan – Venice train-line.  Seeing the combination enthralled me (in person the view was actually breath-taking!).  The theme I’ve chosen for today though is not sunsets and not strictly  nature – I’m thinking more of the interaction between:

Mankind and Nature

How the countryside (or the city around us) shows mankind’s passage on our planet … for good and for ill. We are cultivating in our collective memory a terrible sense of guilt, and I suppose we have a lot to reflect upon each day we live on our planet of our impact both on Earth and our fellow creatures.  However I think feeling guilty is rather silly.  When you recognize you’re doing something in a wrong way, you should rectify your course, not feel guilty and then keep on doing the things that you know are wrong.  So let’s just look at what we have around us and testify to what we see and leave the rest to a future post.   Here then, is my haiga for today:

 

 

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Have a great day!  Ciao, Georgia

one month of Haiga – February 21, 2016

Hello!

Here I am in Padua.  The trip was uneventful and I didn’t take any photos from the windows as I usually do. In fact I only pulled my camera out yesterday evening when we went for a walk in the country.  This morning I’m late posting because I was actually having a lot of fun doing some editing.  The photographs unfortunately from one point of view weren’t up to standard – the sunset and gloaming were fantastic, but alas, my trusty little Olympic is just too slow for certain types of photographs.  Thank heaven’s for photographic editing apps!

The photo I chose to “haiga” is the result of poor lighting but some fun effects.  The original background came out rather reddish and not very interesting … but there was a swirl of blurred light do to my moving the camera at the wrong time.  I didn’t see the effect until I got to working this morning as original photo  is very dark.

As I was working on it, I began to reflect on how little we actually see.  We’ve all heard how our fellow Earth dwellers have different perceptions .. some less spectacular than our own sight and others more intense.   Which brings me to my theme of today:

Light Perception

 

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Have a great Sunday, ciao!  Bastet

Vision: It all Starts with Light

One Month of Haiga – February 20, 2016

Hello …

Many years ago, for Easter,  my eldest  son brought three roses to the ladies present for Easter dinner.  They were blue!  I really liked the blue rose very much and so it has become a part of my memory … in a bitter-sweet fashion since not long afterwards he and his wife separated.  So now a happy memory has a sad tinge to it, which brings me to today’s theme:

An evolving memory

I want to reflect on how a memory or an action evolves and becomes part of our “history” in a pleasant but or an unpleasant way, like my blue rose;   born in a sweet romantic gesture,  now blue roses will forever mean separation for me:

 

 

 

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One Month of Haiga – February 19, 2016

Hello!

I’ve survived my birthday celebration and am packing to go for a few days to Padua.  The days have been pretty gloomy here in Trentino, and though we do want to be correct and welcome the cold winter with open arms, I admit is was wonderful to feel the warm sun shine down on us yesterday.  Talking to friends the other night we calculated that we had approximately 8 days of actual winter weather in our valley.  Of course it has been known to snow in March (in May as well as far as that goes) but that’s  not a pleasant idea.   The air here is extremely dry and the skies sometimes have the oddest colours.  Which brings me to today’s theme:

Storm Warnings

 

There is a particular feel in the air when a storm is about to blow.  Maybe the colour of the sky is odd, maybe it’s too silent – sometimes it’s just something indefinable – a heavy brooding in the air.  Then the wind might pick up a little and the sky get darker:

red brooding
no bird song this morning
storm brewing

© G.s.k. ‘16

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