Two cottonwoods, old majestic trees and geese in Albuquerque’s north valley, Thanksgiving Day afternoon, photo © 2008 by ybonesy. All rights reserved.
it rained all the day
from morning to afternoon
then the sun came out
-related to post: haiku (one-a-day)
We’re packed and heading out to Carlsbad Cavern. Will be back Sunday afternoon. Thanks, Adam, for housesitting!
Have a good weekend, all!!
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Have a great time with your family, ybonesy. Takes lots of photographs! See ya when you get back. 8)
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Oh, what a beautiful photograph of those old cottonwoods. They get so massive there. So majestic. I always think of New Mexico when I see them.
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Beautiful, peaceful….D
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Great picture. The trees here have lost the stunning colors of fall and shed their leaves (well, most of them). Tonight rain mixed with snow, no accumulation.
Loved the haiku. The simplicity of them appeals to me.
Have a safe trip and a great adventure, ybonesy!
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🙂 the art of serenity simplified. love it.
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Do you guys have winter??
The haiku is great – it would have been totally natural except for ‘the’ in the first line: at least in English English, we would say ‘all day’.
Anyhow, pat yourself on the back: naturalness in haiku, I think, is xt-ream-ly difficult to achieve
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stranger, I was thinking the same thing when I saw that ybonesy’s photographs were from the day after Thanksgiving — where is the snow? It looks so warm, kind of like Fall.
But then I just looked out the winter here in Minnesota and the grass is still green, just starting to turn brown. We’re way behind on snowfall. And it hasn’t been as cold as usual.
I was watching this documentary about the making of Into The Wild with Sean Penn and one of the pilots that was flying over the Alaska wilderness was talking about how the glacier she was flying over used to be HUGE and had now shrunk back to bare ground. I believe global warming is real.
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Your rain, our snow. What a beautiful picture.
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What a beautiful photo, Ybonesy! Wonderful. 🙂
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Ah…I would love to walk there! I don’t think we have cottonwoods here in Florida.
Your haiku could be a metaphor for my life right now!
I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving Day and weekend.
Lovely post, yb and I thank you for it!
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Hey ya’ll (coming in from down southern NM, where they say “ya’ll), thanks for the comments. I’m so pooped, but it buoys me to check in on the blog and read all these words.
No snow in Albuquerque yet, although we saw snow in the mountainous parts of the state where we were. Not much, just a light smattering. My sister, who left Albuquerque for Denver today, said it took 5 hours to drive 60 miles (Colorado Springs to Denver) on account of the snow. So, maybe it’s on its way here. Although, November is early for snow in these parts. Up north, though, they’ve got a lot. I think I heard someone tell me that somewhere, was it Taos?, no, but somewhere, 21 inches.
I was surprised by how cold it was in the Chihuahuan Desert. Holy moly, I expected shorts weather (although I brought cold weather clothing). No way, Jose. It was frosty this morning.
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Oh, stranger, must you speak English English all the live long day? 8)
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ybonesy, welcome back from the wilds of southern New Mexico. I didn’t remember they said Ya’ll down there, but then, I guess it is close to Texas and Louisiana. I once made the drive from Taos to Austin. I slightly remember some of the changes in dialect. But mostly the landscape.
We got a little snow here Saturday night after the temps hitting over 40. But last night it was really windy and cold and this morning it’s about 19 degrees and windy where I live. Winter swooped in. Hope you got some great photos on your trip!
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yb – didn’t mean to offend you: on the contrary – rather than pointing out a possible unnatural element in your haiku, I held myself back with the thought that the way something sounds to my English ears must NOT be assumed to sound the same to American ones. After all, if we can’t even be sure how many syllables there are in certain haiku, as we found out already…
Apart from that, English (however defined) is my profession, which perhaps accounts for a not always welcome tendency to dissect pieces of language all the time.
Hope y’all gonna cut me some slack on this one. [I’m trying to hear and visualise John Wayne as I write that.]
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Howdy stranger. In keeping with the John Wayne theme, just wanchataknow that yer alright.
Well, one thing is for sure. Natural haiku IS hard to write and when well-written it should sound good to any ear that reads and writes English. So, not to worry…I’m keeping on keeping on.
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