PROMPT: Weather

Daily writing prompt
What is your favorite type of weather?

For being outside in: Mostly Sunny.

For watching unbridled chaos (from a distance, and preferably on video): tornadoes.

DAILY PHOTO: Wisteria

PROMPT: Teacher

Daily writing prompt
Who was your most influential teacher? Why?

That’s like asking me to pick my favorite breakfast meat.

DAILY PHOTO: Green Landscapes in Southern Armenia

Photograph of landscape with ruins taken in the Tatev region of Southern Armenia.
Photograph of green mountains in Southern Armenia near Tatev.
Photograph of fortification wall and landscape in Southern Armenia near Tatev.

PROMPT: Every Day

Daily writing prompt
What do you wish you could do more every day?

Be spontaneous.

Long Live Bonsai [Senryū]

Photograph of a bonsai tree taken on the grounds of a Hanoi Temple.
the bonsai tree
isn't a BANZAI! tree,
yet looks 10,000.

NOTE: “Bonsai” [盆栽] means “potted plant.” “Banzai” [万歳] means “10,000 years,” (in the manner of “long live the king.”)

A Sun Within [Haiku]

Photograph of purple and yellow water lilies taken in Hanoi, Vietnam.
purple lilies
open to reveal
a Sun within.

DAILY PHOTO: Mountain Pasture

Photograph taken in the countryside near Sapa, Vietnam.
Photograph taken outside Sapa, Vietnam on the QL4D highway on the road to Lao Cai.

Mountain Mist [Haiku]

hot summer day,
sitting downwind of cascade:
misted by spatter.

PROMPT: Tattoo

Daily writing prompt
What tattoo do you want and where would you put it?
I would not like a tattoo. 
I would not like one - old or new.
I wouldn't like one in a Zoo.
I wouldn't like one in a canoe.
I would not like one,
Ham though I am,
I would not like any body-spam.