Haiku 2011/364

sunlight on diamonds

shining through a shop window

a gleam in the eye

Haiku 2011/363

sweetly in the breeze
raindrops shake from black branches
sunlight on diamonds

Haiku 2011/362

there should be songbirds
and fruited garlands swaying
sweetly in the breeze

Haiku 2011/361

stretching into mist
granite mountain memories
there should be songbirds

Haiku 2011/360

shining with the dawn
ribbon of road unspooling
stretching into mist

Haiku 2011/359

once-desired object
once distant as the mountains
shining with the dawn

Christmas medley

enjoy the Georges de la Tour lighting effects

California Christmas 1: blue and orange

California Christmas 2: city lights

indoors at St Patrick's in New York, two years ago: I love the sly sarcastic look on the camel's face, as if he's going to get off a good quip - he's the Dorothy Parker of beasts of burden!


from a recent New Yorker - hilarity from the great Danny Shanahan

Haiku 2011/358

replaced by others
back on the shelf you shall go
once-desired object

let nothing you dismay, part 2

I was passing through the Westfield Mall today to sneer at people who still had Christmas shopping to do when I overhead a youngish man saying, "With my sensibility, I would tend to get them joke gifts."

If phrases like "my sensibility" are part of your everyday vocabulary, you really aren't the sort of person who should be buying joke gifts.

Haiku 2011/357

I turn and they're gone:
clouds, trees, days, buildings, people
replaced by others