O water grass,
     how icy it was,
     the last winter? 

- I suppose those are not any watergrasses, but they anyway seemingly thrive in the cold lake-water.

Celebrated my mother-in-law's 85 years. Staying here in Ilomantsi one week. Some noisy birds. Windy but warm weather.

     windy moon 
     traveling behind 
     the thin clouds 

      the spring train 
      not arriving  
      as scheduled?

     a retired man 
     fitting the sunglasses -- 
     entering summer

This was my comment for Bill 12th May 2010. And if some-one will ask I'm that retired man!

     Bankers' crisis -- 
     eight-petalled anemone 
     blooming it's best

Reminded me the following waka:

The eight-petalled cherries
From the Nara capital
Of the ancient past
Today nine layers thick
Have bloomed within our court!

(Ise no Tayuu, tr. by Joshua S. Mostow from
PICTURES OF THE HEART
The Hyakunin Isshu in Word and Image,
Honolulu 1996.)

ps.
(Bankers crisis; The Creeks lived beyond one's means, now the other European countries are helping them, also Finland.)

Oops, it's Mother's Day

# 1

A noisy morning --
capsized coffee cup
in her bed



# 2

Mother's Day's drizzle
watering
the wood anemones



ps.
her coffee cup in the middle

Post # 765

When last time in Helsinki I took the metro from Siltasaari downd to Ruoholahti. When rised up from The Ruoholahti Station of the Metro, I found a group of parked bicycles, bright colored. & a sunny day.

   
     menopause -- 
     the bicycles 
     appealing to ride

I checked with my wife the word "menopause" as a kigo, - An autumn, September, perhaps October, she said.
- And the males got also those, she said.

I looked my bicycle; waiting for me in slight drizzle.

     mayday!
     

Original Ezra Pound's 1913 poem "In a Station of the Metro":

The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough.

     a departing ship 
     joining with the sky 
     and the sea

waxing moon
sailing in the sky --
sleepless night

     sunshine 
     from the left -- 
     paved history 

              not allowed 
              to take off just now --
              closed air space

Volcanic eruption in Iceland

Finland's airspace, as widely in Europe, is today closed due to volcanic ash-clouds drifting all over. That ash is dangerous for jet motors...

a silent sky --
a dim view of the sun 
through the ashy clouds

Camera Model Name: PENTAX Optio 33WR
Shooting Date/Time: 16.4.2010 13:40
Tv( Shutter Speed ): 1/1250
Av( Aperture Value ): 6.9

       Found an airworthy 
       nesting place,
       this hurly mergenser?

(The bird: Mergus mergenser)

   Snow spider 
   on winter's last day
   resting a while

We found this spider yesterday on the snow. My wife said she will save this spider and was intended to do it (?!). (She is fond of spiders.) But this spider continued his trip. (Or her.) Where to; no idea. Still snow all over. But melting, as you can see. Snow-spiders nesting somewhere?

One spider from Issa, year 1805

mai-mai ya asu naki haru wo kao wo somete

       water spider
       on spring's last day
       blushing

Translated by David G. Lanoue

also
those clouds
heading northwards

vernal equinox --
South African nights
lengthening a bit

true spring - series #2 - 3

true spring - series # 2

  melting snow --
  wet puddles 
  behind the gate 

true spring - series # 3

  a chilly night -- 
  all the puddles 
  icemirrored 

true spring - series # 1

  some snow, then sleet, 
  melting, freezes again --
  a true spring

When returned from Tampere I saw a snowblower cleaning a snowy road in the countryside.

   a snowblower 
   spreading snowseeds
   on the old snowbank

sorry being busy

Sorry not being active here.
Visited Helsinki, today at Tampere, tomorrow I'll take a ferry to Stockholm. But next week?