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first Saturday of the lenten season

image from public domain




I am blog hopping today at 6WS


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Carpe Diem little creatures #18, Issa's "rice blossoms"


tombô mo ogamu te tsuki ya ine no hana

the dragonfly too
folds hands in prayer...
rice blossoms
© Kobayashi Issa

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cherry blossoms bloom
first bees come to gather honey -
cherries in autumn
© Chèvrefeuille

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a season
reflective of precious blood -
cross of Calvary
the battymamselle wings
like stained glass windows
© gillena cox


Revisit
cutting lent
yellow dragonfly
red dragonfly

Yellow Dragonfly

Red Dragonfly

original image is from...

Saturday just gone, my niece Candace invited me to do a water aerobics class with her; it was great exercise and great fun

water aerobics-
the red dragonfly
flitting past
--gillena cox 2011

We say "batty mamselle" instead of dragonfly, in our day to day conversations here in Trinidad and Tobago.
This beautiful little creature is immotalized in the sphere of calypso by one of our calypso masters The Lord Kitchener. Listen to Kitchener's - calypso Batty Mamselle; Hear also Batty Mamselle played as a steel pan duo by Gary Gibson on tenor pan, Miho Takekawa on double seconds