leo, tiger

I am 
both a Leo and Tiger
and am happy 
just the way 
I am
Photo: At a museum, location forgotten

laugh

The leaning looks like someone telling a joke.
Photo: Somewhere in Paris

oh so

The girls are gone
for a while, and it feels
oh so quiet.
Photo: Louvre Museum, Paris

enter

There is always a way 
to enter.
Photo: Drive to a home in England

decision

We'll be making 
up our minds.
Photo: A home in England

a while

Friends of ours 
are leaving tomorrow
for a while...
Photo: In Paris

t/here

Here - such a large space.

Photo: Timber yard, Masterton

some sun

Here is some
Monday sun.
Photo: Somewhere in England

one promise

Each loved world
needs one
promise
Photo: Somewhere in Auckland

after

We had a lovely gathering last night
and today I slept and slept
glorious.
Photo: Somewhere in Auckland

one

A man I love 
made this from one
piece of wood for a girl
we love.
Photo: L's chair

a ribbon for you

We have many ribbons that keep us 
happy, healthy, bright, and tonight
is a festival for the moon
and everyone is bright.
Photo: Ribbons that L has won in horse riding

white and cold

This is a detail of a photographic image of mine. It's snow on a rooftop. Our winter is over in New Zealand, and we had just a dust
of snow. Then, this morning, frost.
Photo: Snow on corrugated metal, Japan

tree tips

Trees on tip toes.
Photo: In our garden

waiting for the wind

These sway in the wind, 

and this morning, the wind is quiet.

Photo: Sculpture in Featherston, New Zealand

two roads

Many of us, people and dogs 
alike, take these roads. 
One road leads to town,
another to river.
Photo: Off North Road, Greytown, New Zealand

be with brightness

We climbed past fern, stream, rimu, 
ponga, tmesipteris. We climbed 
ninety minutes upwards 
to be with this bright expanse.
Photo: Tararua Mountains, Wairarapa

great flesh

Photo: A gift from P

floor as field

This looks like 'tin' 
the Chinese character 
for 'field'.
Photo: On my firiend A's floor, Brisbane

they were golden

When I saw these trees without a lens,
they were golden, but now, somehow, 
silvery.
Photo: Off North Road, Greytown, New Zealand

wind sound

Today the wind is traveling 
about 2 kilometers each minute.  
The sound tires.
Photo: Metal and ground, Peng Chau, Hong Kong

candles for the future

Today is the birthday 
of two people in my life.
I see these white fixtures 
as candles and the shape
a triangle, going forward.
Photo: A wall in the dark
Happy new year e and B!

fleece

Today we met a woman who spins 
and weaves alpaca, sheep, 
siberian husky...
Photo: Off Waohine Gorge Road

directions

One of the first photos taken with my mobile phone, this image records a friend sailing off on a boat, from one island to another.
The phone has not kept the colors of that wonder afternoon, and the very first images taken were the reverse of what was wanted: I kept shooting parts of the hand or cheek until I figured out the direction the lens was facing. 
Photo: V going to Lantau Island

a piece of

please have a piece 
of torte
Photo: Homemade torte, New Zealand

I am a tree

People are trees. Seamus Heaney was called a great oak at his funeral, and Nieh Hualing has always called herself a tree. 
Photo: In the Botanical Gardens, Wellington

tribute to the claw

A friend recently created 'Claw Script' -
photographic images of the scratches 
her cat makes on the living room floor.
Another friend framed and mounted
the images. This post is a tribute to them.
Photo: For H and LH, tree shadow on mushroom, New Zealand

tuatara

The ancient animal might rest 
on this rock.
Photo: At Pukaha Mount Bruce, New Zealand

nose information

Pigs live near the end 
of the driveway.
I am glad I am mostly 
a mouth-breather.
Photo: Painted on a building
of the Wairarapa A & P Society, New Zealand

body of air

Kikorangi, the Maori word 
for blue: sky flesh.
Photo: Foreground fountain and sky above Aotearoa,
The Land of the Long White Cloud,
also known as New Zealand