Raindrops

raindrops pearl~
another flower opened
the jasmine bush

ah, but that was yesterday; today has started out sunny and bright

--photo and haibun; gillena cox





The story of Draobete in the Romanian Festival of Love tells of...
...a proud woman, teasing the month of March who then gets even by taking a few days from February. Other stories are of Dochia, sister of Dacian ruler Decebal, who runs away in the mountains to seek refuge from the Roman Emperor Trajan. She disguises herself as a shepherd, but looses her lambskin and freezes. She is then metamorphosed into a stream and her sheep are turned into flowers. Regardless of its origin, the myth of Dragobete speaks of pristine love, of nature’s rituals translated into people’s life, of new life cycles and of being reborn.



Bye Bye February thank you for my birthday on day eleven;
much love
gillena