Yesterday I visited Pori Jazz. Just a short visit. When returning home I stopped for a while. (Had nr one, you see I am an old man already!) Behind the trees the waxing moon was peeping.

     O waxing moon - 
     where are you coming from? 
     I'm going home.

Data: Canon Pocket camera, 1/30, F 4,3, ISO 400, Zoom 60 mm (=full)
Date: 21st July 2010 at 22:54 local time
Sky: somewhat hazy
Myself: Happy

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Sakuo´s birthday!

I sent this one for Nakamura Sakuo in his Facebook; it's his birthday today!

     unhurried -- 
     arriving somewhere 
     sometimes

       no-one 
       needing a dry path -- 
       the day off

         seeking 
         a calm place 
         for a short nap

          an eruption  
          of a sunny day -- 
          a short flowering

     TV antenna 
     is still full of fire -- 
     the football

Data: 1/200, F/3.2, ISO 200. date: 10th July 2010 at 23:08 local time.

washing
the sky --
an unsleepy rain

Liberté!

Liberté!
The toast
ready to be eaten.

(This was a comment for Bill's and also Marcel Peltier's blog...)

June 2010 Kukai

These were my texts in June 2010 Kukai:

    Freezing breeze -
    the nakedness
    of my old bones

That one I wrote when visited Lappland at June 2010. It was a northeasterly strong wind and temperature was something like +2 Degrees Celcius. (35 F I think?)
In the middle of the night I had a mission for a number one. Went out with just a thin shirt and thin trousers on me, without socks. (That cottage doesn't have a WC inside.)

Kigo subject was Nakedness. That was just what I felt.

Following one is Free Format Theme: Children

    proudly watching
    childrens' first flight -
    a mother-crow

I can hear the mosquitoes
but it does not mean
that we are close friends