Etegami with Haiku ~ Garden: Stone Lantern
stone lantern
in the winter garden
a night blossom
NaHaiWriMo 2013-010 – garden
Digital Drawing and Painting
- 4.5 x 6.5 Inches @ 300 ppi
- Zen Brush App
- ArtStudio App
- ScratchCam App
- iPad 2
- Adobe Photoshop Elements 6
Posted to 19 Planets CafePress as a 4 x 6 postcard.
My response to the prompt “garden” for Michael Dylan Welch and his NaHaiWriMo (National Haiku Writing Month ~ February 2013). The event is centered on Facebook. Each day a new NaHaiWriMo prompt can be found on Facebook in the comments: here.
Etegami ~ words (which can be, but do not have to be haiku) and drawing intended to be sent between friends through a postal service, often as a postcard.
Be fun—Write Haiku – Aloha
Now I want to walk in the snow and see such a winter flower. Beautiful piece.
aloha Poetic Rabbit – you caught me by surprise. I like your response. these blossoms are indeed a treat to see. fun. thank you. aloha.
I suspect I’m missing the snow. I’m down in south Texas now, and there’s nary a flake in sight (at least not the frozen kind). I loved the image that came to my mind–a snow covered lamp, still burning. It’s always a treat here.
yeah, I know that missing. then I sit and really explore the winter and snow in my skull. sometimes, once in great, great whiles I’ve been able to experience it again, for brief amounts of time.
that’s when I realize about two weeks of good strong snow would be enough each winter. I do miss being able to photograph it. and I miss strange things about it at times too.
once I understood that I had to get up early every day and hand shovel a two lane drive to the garage before any car drove in the new snow, whether it was half an inch or half a meter in upstate New York, I actually enjoyed that process every day. rubber boots lined with felt, jeans and a t-shirt with a knit hat and I was good to go. of course I know Minnesota snow too. so yeah. 2 weeks would just about do it now.
there are moments tho. . . . candles in the snow can do it. or remembering times when great snow diamonds flashed. or sledding, cross country skis, hot chocolate and chili after snow angels. . . . fire-breathing on long walks to work. . . . yeah, plenty to miss. and enjoy in my skull. . . . slip-sliding on trays, first tracks across a field. a hand full of fluff or single flakes on a black mitten. . . . watching the sky, head tilted back beneath a high light at midnight in a big flake, breeze-less snow storm. . . . ice flows on rivers. oh, that might yet happen in a ku. . . .
yeah.
good skull memories of snow on you too. aloha
Exactly. You got it all, both the time limit and the treasures.
bwahahaha. yeah. 3 weeks might be a challenge. aloha and fun on you.