Sky

Thunder

Lantana

Ginger

Sunday Savvy 30

hat rack image from google


the hat rack
the house where i grew up
only dad's hat
--gillena cox(first posted at Caribbean Kigo Kukai as the haiku example for Kukai #14)


HAPPY FATHERS DAY


SUNDAY SMILES TO ALL please, share a lil Sunday something of yours with me: COMMENT or email me

revisit Sunday Savvy 29

tag 1 Caribbean Kigo Kukai #14 - Fathers

tag 2 Kudos-Fathers


too young to notice
he came home for lunch
every day
--Diane Mayr, US

Renku Saturday 23

--opening hagia from Gheorghe Postelnicu , Romania;


the war lord
has pull...
chrysanthemum contest
--Issa, 1817


a white butterfly
skips along oblivious -
the rumbling truck
--gillena cox


revisit Renku Saturday 22

Imbibing

...celebrating last night's rain; Have a Nice Day Everyone

First Rain Flies

Lemon Grass

Series Picture Post Cards 29

revisit Picture Post Cards 28

Sunday Savvy 29

Sunday savvy -
bright sky hosts no day moon
a gentle rain
--gillena cox

Today is the first rainy season Sunday here in T&T; if Corpus Christ Thursday was considered the start of the rainy season.
I came across some witty weather writings at coldal web pages weather lore
Here are a few that made me smile:


Rain on Easter Sunday, it will rain the next 7 Sundays.
Fog goes a hoppin', rain comes a droppin'
Fog in January makes a wet Spring
Feb fog means a frost in May
Ash Wednesday wind continues in Lent
Cold is the night, when stars shine bright.
If smoke goes up - clear, smoke comes down - moisture on the way.
--Carol Saseen

*

The last Sunday in the month indicates
the weather of the next month.

When circle around the moon t'will rain
-- Amber

*

Infallible signs of Rainy Weather, from the Observations of divers Animals!

If Ducks or Drakes their Wings do flutter high
Or tender Colts upon their Backs do lie,
If Sheep do bleat, or play, or skip about,
Or Swine hide Straw by bearing on their Snout,
If Oxen lick themselves against the Hair,
Or grazing Kine to feed apace appear,
If Cattle bellow, grazine from below,
Or if Dogs Entrails rumble to and fro,
If Doves or Pigeons in the Evening come
Later than usual to their Dove-House Home,
If Crows and Daws do oft themselves be-wet,
Or Ants and Pismires Home a-pace do get,
If in the dust Hens do their Pinions shake,
Or by their flocking a great Number make,
If Swallows fly upon the Water low,
Or Wood-Lice seem in Armies for to go,
If Flies or Gnats, or Fleas infest and bite,
Or sting more than they're wont by Day or Night,
If Toads hie Home, or Frogs do croak amain,
Or Peacocks cry
Soon after look for Rain!

*

Dirty days hath September
April June and November
From January up to May
The rain it raineth every day
All the rest have thirty-one
Without a blessed gleam of sun
And if any of them had two-and-thirty
They'd be just as wet and twice as dirty.

*
SUNDAY SMILES TO ALL whatever the weather have a nice day and do, share a lil Sunday something of yours with me: COMMENT or email me

Cultivated green tea fields, Numazu, New Tomei expressway service stop

the Pacific
the breeze of green tea
Sunday drive
--Taro Kunugi

tag 1 ...Rambles with a Camera - Sunday 10th June 2012

tag2...Flow And Stuff - Sunday 10th June2012

tag 3...Crafty Green Poet - Sunday 10 June 2012

revisit Sunday Savvy 28

The Market Stall

Oil on canvas; Still Life with Fruit 1955; Sybil Atteck (1911 -1975)
image from google

Yesterday, our book club; attended an excellent dramatic presentation of The Stolen Cascadura written by Beverly - Ann Scott at the St James Library; as part of this year's Nalis 'One Book Community' reading festival. Well Done to the 'Dramatik Expressions' from San Fernando Library

market stall -
the unreal greeness
of plastic pears
--gillena cox

Picasso

...a portrait of Picasso’s muse, the painter and photographer Dora Maar, famous for her love affair with the Málaga artist image from google...in the news Spanish Banking Crisis


past midnight ..
lost in the realm of
an author's words
--gillena cox

Corpus Christi 2012

Corpus Christi, when i was child, is the day i would hear adults acknowledge as 'The Start Of The Rainy Season' with all the vehemence of a modern day meteorologist; its the day too i got to plant pigeon peas and corn with my father.
In the religious arena, this is the day for Catholics as a pivot to all other religious observances, the focal point being the Holy Eucharist with a sub theme of the church as The Body of Christ; We Catholics are rich in terms of our liturgical observances and this day is not without its share of pomp, its a holiday here in Trinidad and Tobago and the morning is given to the Corpus Christi procession of devotees, and this year, 2012 with a new archbishop.

Corpus Christi 2011 in T&T

A HAPPY AND HOLY DAY TO ALL

revisit Lunch Break previous Corpus Christi posts

Jigsaw - Tortuga

Tortuga Jigsaw Puzzle
click the image to play the puzzle

green fruit dangle -
yet still
the honeycreeper sings
--gillena cox

send postcard
revisit Tortuga

Series Picture Post Cards # 28

Greyness

Sunday Savvy 28

After the work week, or the school week, and weekend chores of Saturday, Sunday is a nice day to pack in some leisure hours; and this Sunday the community of St James affords its populace such a treat since the annual 'we beat' festival started June 1st and ends June 9th this year

Sunday savvy -
the 'we beat' stage draped
red white and black
--gillena cox


Sunday Smiles


tag 1...Rambles With A Camera - June 3rd 2012

tag 2...Flow And Stuff L - June 3rd 2012

tag 3...Feathers 1092


Why not share a lil Sunday something of yours with me: COMMENT or email me

revisit Sunday Savvy 27


Sunday . . .
how quickly
the long day passes
--Bill, US


Sunday morning
tickseed flowers brighter
than the sun
--Cara, US


picnic on the porch
the fragrance of peonies
with the ham and cheese
--Adelaide, US


I remember when I was a child:

Sunday clatter
coins in the passing tin
fresh milk

My Grandmother Magyar always wispered as the collection dish went by, "A less hungry child."
--_m, US


old age home---
wait for her son
on sunday morning
--Kash poet, IN


Sundays I never liked
I yearn for Mondays
--Lorraine, CA

Questions

As part of The NALIS One Book Community 2012 - reading The Stolen Cascadura by Beverly -Ann Scott; The St James Book Club sat in on a session of "Talk To The Writer!" held at the library this morning. A truly enlivening morning's session


the sun shines brightly -
the questions burning
in reader's hearts
--gillena cox

Evening

Today's Rain

Cloudy Sky

Sunday Savvy 27

Today, is Pentecost Sunday to Catholics, and too, many other Christians communities ; commemorating the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the remaining eleven Apostles of Christ (Judas had hanged himself), included in the 12 Disciples in the Upper Room, after the Resurrection of Jesus...Pentecost is celebrated seven weeks (50 days) after Easter Sunday, hence its name.

As a child, i knew this Sunday as Whit Sunday, and the Monday following was a holiday.

Sunday Smiles

revisit Sunday Savvy 26
Pentecost read more here
Acts 2:1-6

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or email me


us too with the
plastic
but ends up in a tree
--Lorraine

tag... Saturday May 26th 2012 - White Petals

Renku Saturday 22

--opening haiga by Gheorghe Postelnicu , Romania

evening moon -
in a slow stream of traffic
workers return home
--gillena cox

Evening
i sleep with the
moon
--Lorraine

Tag 1
Tag 2

Hurried Footsteps

Day's Ending

Sansevieria

Wisps Of

in memoriumKimberley Hortensia Anderson [24 June 1969 – 22 May 2012]

Sunday Savvy 26

...of Sunday Savvy and supermoon speculations...
Sunday Smiles to all

Two weekends ago the 2012 supermoon bloomed on Saturday May 5th.
On Sunday May 6 the moon approached within 357,000 km (222,000 mi) of Earth, in what is scientifically known as a perigee-syzygy of the Earth-Moon-Sun system

Sunday savvy
supermoon has come and gone
first caladium
--gillena cox

The name SuperMoon was coined by astrologer Richard Nolle in 1979, arbitrarily defined as:...a new or full moon which occurs with the Moon at or near (within 90% of) its closest approach to Earth in a given orbit (perigee). In short, Earth, Moon and Sun are all in a line, with Moon in its nearest approach to Earth.

some awesome supermoon 2012 photos

Today's Sunday Savvy tease; be sure to hyperlink to read more

Did the 'Super Moon' 2012 topple Greece and France?
Did supermoon cause the Japan tsunami 2011
next supermoon 2016

revisit Sunday Savvy 25
This is the 26th of The Series Sunday Savvy; again i invite you to share a lil Sunday something of yours with me : COMMENT
or email me


Ice cream
with speckles
green M&M
--Lorraine, CA

balmy Sunday
thinking about weeding
is work enough
--Adelaide, US

Ducks

Ducks Jigsaw Puzzle
enjoy today jigsaw; Have a good Saturday

smooth pond surface -
there also
sky with clouds
--gillena cox

revisit Wild Fowl Trust.1

Cadence

cadence of
morning rain on dew -
interrupts the bird's twitter
--gillena cox 2011

ضَربِ باران
روی شبنم صُبحگاهی
چَهچهِ پرنده بُرید
--Persian translation by Massih Talebian 2012


(rain on caricature leaves - a 2010 photo; haiku first posted at Tinywords May 2011)

revisit Cadence 2011

Salybia

Salybia Jigsaw Puzzle
Enjoy today's jigsaw puzzle

cloud crowded -
a walk
along the beach
-gillena cox

Of

Birds' Feet

hyperlink to 'Haiku A Way of Life' you wont regret it

Sunday Savvy 25

a photo of my bougainvillae, used for this shahai, was taken by my God daughter who is also a Godmother

Sunday savvy -
enough flowers warm
both our hearts
--gillena cox

Today, Mother's Day at Lunch Break; I'm Wishing all Godmothers a Happy Mother's Day and inviting stories poems and what ever else you wish to share on the theme Godmother

Traditionally, godparents were informally responsible for ensuring the child's religious education was carried out, and for caring for the child should he/she be orphaned. Today, the word godparent might not have explicitly religious overtones. The modern view of a godparent tends to be an individual chosen by the parents to take an interest in the child's upbringing and personal development

revisit
The Cinderella Syndrome
a renga posted from 1st to 31st August 2010 retelling my favourite fairy tale in haiku/haibun style

revisit Mother's Day 2011

revisit Sunday Savvy 24

Sunday Smiles to All

Monastery Ostrog
baptism of the child
old godmother
--Tatjana Debeljacki, Serbia

Mother's Day
covered with wrinkles
dear face
--Gennady Nov, Russia

forgetting her own
she forgot her mother's too ...
May Sunday
--Zen Anecdotes (Megan), UK

napping in the shade
of red bougainvillae
tinted dreams
--Adelaide

Plumbagos Jigsaw Puzzle
Have a nice Saturday; enjoy the jigsaw puzzle; when you get to the puzzle page, you can choose the number of pieces, and also the style of cut

my child's rice cakes
my child's rice cakes...
all in a row
-Issa, 1813


Tomorrow Sunday 13th is Mother's Day

Say Happy Mother's Day! in some other languages too:
Bonne Fête des Mères!
Maligayang Araw ng Mga Ina!
Máthair Lá Shona!
Festa della mamma di Happy!
幸せな母の日！
ಹ್ಯಾಪಿ ತಾಯಿಯ ಡೇ!
해피 어머니의 날!
Felix matris Dies!
Happy Mother diena!
Честит мајката!
Hari Ibu gembira!
Jum l-Omm Happy s!
Gratulerer med morsdagen!
روز مادر مبارک!
Szczęśliwego Dzień Matki!
Feliz Dia das Mães!
Ziua Mamei Happy!
С Днем Матери!
Срећан мајчин дан!
Šťastný Deň matiek!
Prisoten Materinski dan!
Día de la Madre Feliz!
Siku ya furaha ya Mama!
Lycklig mors dag!
சந்தோஷமாக தாயின் நாள்!
హ్యాపీ తల్లి డే!
วันแม่ของ Happy!
Anneler günün kutlu olsun!
З Днем Матері!
مبارک ہو کہ ماں کا دن!
Ngày của Mẹ hạnh phúc!
Sul y Mamau yn Hapus!
מזל מוטערס טאָג!

Empty Vase

Sunday Savvy 24

I was born on a Saturday; so my mother tell's me; hmm, morning or evening, i do not know; ....note to self, must ask....
well; The Days Of The Week Poem tells us "Saturday's child works hard for a living
...And the child that is born on the Sabbath day Is bonny and blithe, and good and happy".

What day of the week were you born? does it matter you think?
just another Sunday Savvy tease

Sunday savvy -
a ground dove at nest
in the cherry tree
--gillena cox


Sunday Smiles to all


mourning doves in the cherry tree

Saturday
I face a new week
the first time
--_m


revisit Sunday Savvy 23

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Grounded

Bookmarked

Series Picture Post Cards 28

round leaves
listening for Basho's frog
in the pond
--gillena cox, 2009

revisit Wild Fowl Trust.3

In The Rain

Yesterday, caught in the rain, walking to my house, all i could think of was my new umbrella at home pretty and dry.

walking in the rain -
not a birdsong
applauds me
--gillena cox


Revisit July 2010 to review the month long umbrella renga "Saying Even Less"

sunny day -
yellow poui resplendent
on the mountain
--gillena cox, April 2012

ਧੁਪੀਲਾ ਦਿਨ -
ਪਰਬਤ ਉੱਤੇ ਚਮਕੇ
ਪੀਲੀ ਬਸੰਤ ਰਾਣੀ
--Punjabi translation by Sandip Sital Chauhan, April 2012