DAILY PHOTO: Palms & Mountains, Vang Vieng

Photograph of a palm tree in the fore and karst mountains in the background. Taken outside Vang Vieng, Laos.
Photograph with Vang Vieng Village and a palm tree in the foreground, and karst mountains in the background.

The Long & the Short [Haiku]

Photograph of stone carved figurines at the temple on Kaurava Kunda in Chikballapur, Karnataka, India.
temple wall
overgrown with weeds;
idols kept pristine.

Two Faces of Spring [Haiku]

Photograph of Small's Ragwort taken on Kaurava Kunda in Karnataka, India.
tiny flowers
buffeted by wind
& large raindrops

First Blossom [Haiku]

petal flutters down
from clustered Cherry Blossoms;
is it the first?

Winter View [Senryū]

Photograph of a family of macaques on a wall at Gudibande Fort in Karnataka, India.
with trees bare, one sees
what Spring won't reveal:
monkeys don't care.

Lying in Wildflowers [Haiku]

Photograph taken near the Tabor Monastery of the Transfiguration in Tbilisi, Georgia.
lying down 
amid wildflowers:
city disappears.

Stony Ground [Haiku]

Photograph taken in the Gobustan National Park outside Baku, Azerbaiian.
wildflowers bloom
-- sheltered by boulders --
on stony ground.

Daisy Waves [Haiku]

Photographs of Ox-Eye Daisies taken in Baku, Azerbaijian.
ox-eye daisies
ripple in the wind, or
when tousled by hand.

Blossom Blush [Haiku]

white blossom clusters —
Cherry trees of Early Spring:
some blooms blush, some not.

DAILY PHOTO: Wisteria