Haiku and Pictures

Around Home I especially like the cool  mornings before staff comes on and    
the chance to walk around and notice the mountains to the east, Lassen, and 

Mt. Shasta to the north. Also take a few pix of flowers and the birds.

Note: Discovering the formatting with the pictures on one side or the other does not hold from draft to preview to publishing Blog spots Blogger.  So, for now,  it's back to this even though I like the other way better. 

Tree House morning and autumn's deep shadows on the lawn

    One Sunny Morning took this picture and wrote a haiku. 

          Fall day, blue sky, Sun
     casting shadows on the lawn
       Life waits winter's sleep

Haiku is a Japanese form of verse containing three lines. The first and last lines are 5 syllables and the middle line is 7. The idea is to juxtaposition two images or ideas. I’m just a beginner and spend most of my thinking energy figuring out the syllables. I like the gentle quality of haiku and the effort of creating an image with so few words.  Traditionally haiku is about the seasons. Should you want to know more about Haiku click here.   

October rose with green background

       
                             Another haiku effort   

                             October rose blooms
                          in the cool shadows of fall
                               we also bloom here                    

                      

                   Another day took camera and went to the river near Sun Dial bridge. The ducks and geese were cooperative and did some great posing for me. 

This guy knows who and what he is

                   

Cutie

Looks like this duck is resting on the branch, but it is in the water,
the branch on the shore. I thought the perspective was interesting.