Wednesday 29 February 2012

Bits (Party Time)

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Garden, Kyoto, Japan: photo by Fg2, 9 October 2005



As in a dream of bayshore Japonaiserie

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Sunset in Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge, Delray, Florida: photo by Daniel Schwen, 25 March 2009



I thought I saw the myriad particulate bits of the universe




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Resin continuing to bubble from the stump of a Monterey Pine (Pinus radiata), seven years after it was cut down, Monterey, California: photo by Tony Wills, 18 March 2007




wearing funny hats





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Clustered Bonnet (Mycena inclinata), Trent Park, Enfield, UK: photo by Stu Phillips, 23 November 2011
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13 comments:

  1. Conrad DiDiodato29 February 2012 at 06:22

    As always, a perfect language and image fusion..right down to the resin 'bit'

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  2. Anonymous29 February 2012 at 07:06

    if we just open our eyes...we can see...and be amazed and sated!!

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  3. STEPHEN RATCLIFFE29 February 2012 at 07:21

    Tom,

    Here's to such dreams of "bayshore Japonaiserie," "particulate bits of the universe" and all -- bubbly resin from felled pine included. . .

    2.29

    light coming into cloud above invisible
    top of ridge, drops falling from branch
    in foreground, wave sounding in channel

    follows from relation above,
    corresponds to “time”

    of paragraph, since in fact
    this is it, therefore

    grey white clouds reflected in channel,
    pelican flapping across toward horizon

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  4. Martha King29 February 2012 at 08:39

    Ya got it! Thanks. Martha

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  5. TC29 February 2012 at 08:58

    And thanks to you folks.

    On the brink of another of these crooked-number birthdays, rainy or no, one must find the joke.

    But first one must remember where one has put one's microscope...

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  6. aditya29 February 2012 at 23:20

    Wonder full Tom.

    A very happy birthday.


    all day long
    wearing a hat
    that wasn't on my head

    jack kerouac

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  7. STEPHEN RATCLIFFE1 March 2012 at 06:59

    Happy Birthday, Tom! -- and many happy returns, crooked and/or not.

    3.1

    first light in clouds against invisible
    ridge, shadowed branches moving in wind
    in foreground, sound of wave in channel

    life of object at left seen
    still, in which light

    is potential, thoughts like
    that even, from other

    whiteness of sun in clouds above ridge,
    pelican flapping across toward horizon

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  8. TC1 March 2012 at 07:34

    rainy day grounded snoozing dormouse haiku



    flapping across the horizon

    like jack kerouac

    having a nap

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  9. aditya1 March 2012 at 21:59

    Utterly beautiful. Thanks for the haiku and the video.

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  10. ACravan2 March 2012 at 04:47

    Sorry I missed your birthday -- Happy Birthday!!! Curtis, Caroline and Jane

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  11. TC2 March 2012 at 06:11

    Many thanks, friends. Hearing from you constituted the celebration, as indeed is the case daily. 'Twas a pretty subdued occasion, cold rain, sick cats, and old folks weighing up the gravity of the haunted house on a sliding scale. What's that old conundrum, which falls faster, a ton of feathers or a ton of lead.

    On the other hand, 'tis no dream, we remain broad wakyng, like the ill fated namesake poet T. Wyatt, and yet -- the myriad particulate bits of the universe, wearing funny hats.

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  12. Issa's Untidy Hut5 March 2012 at 07:49

    The perfect combination of beauty, wonder, and laughter.

    Cheers!

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  13. TC5 March 2012 at 07:59

    Thanks Don. This little guy was born unseen here in the laughing silence beneath the clustered bonnet, awaiting your arrival.

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