My great leap into the digital camera age is via a Nikon D50. I'm really impressed with it. The photo was taken in the Dales on Sunday eve. Low sun, blue sky, trees, good camera. What more could a boy want? I mean apart from, sex, drugs, rock and roll, and drink.
A haiku is a Japanese verse form where you are limited to 5 syllables in the first line, 7 syllables in the second and 5 in the third line. That mean you produce a three line poem of not more than 17 syllables in the format 5/7/5.
I cheated by using the 7th syllable in the second line to make the third line work. I think you're not supposed to do that.
Not sure what the scribbles on Japanese paintings are about however I really love their calligraphy. I saw a film once of this woman where she had a long sheet of white paper and this beautiful brush with broad head and she wrote from top to bottom. Every swish of the brush was swift and elegant and the resulting glyphs were like geometrical pictures. Occasionally she used a wonderful medium tone red that was striking. She was obviously a talented artist. Her room was bare except for the table on which she worked and I think the walls were of paper and above her were wooden rafters and below her a polished wooden floor. It was good stuff.
D,
I too like sushi, though never come across sashimi. Must look it up. Re the haiku's, they're definitely brain excercise, it took me thiry five minutes to solve the little one I published on the blog.
ps,
I'm using your monkfish and whisky recipe to entertain friends tomorrow. Got it off Cream's food blog.
8 comments:
Love this picture.
I want one like it.
Buffy,
My great leap into the digital camera age is via a Nikon D50. I'm really impressed with it. The photo was taken in the Dales on Sunday eve. Low sun, blue sky, trees, good camera. What more could a boy want? I mean apart from, sex, drugs, rock and roll, and drink.
Help. Dan. What really IS a haiku? I keep reading about it, don't understand :-(
G,
A haiku is a Japanese verse form where you are limited to 5 syllables in the first line, 7 syllables in the second and 5 in the third line. That mean you produce a three line poem of not more than 17 syllables in the format 5/7/5.
I cheated by using the 7th syllable in the second line to make the third line work. I think you're not supposed to do that.
Hm, sounds challenging, a haiku does. I see bloggers everywhere talking about it and I found out there are rules. It seems to be the 'in' thing now.
So that's what those scribbles on a Japanese painting are all about?
You guys go on writing haikus, I'll stuff myself with sushi and sashimi, my favorite part of Japanese culture and tradition.
Dan, a few miles up the road and we might've bumped into each other!
I love Sushi too!
G,
Not sure what the scribbles on Japanese paintings are about however I really love their calligraphy. I saw a film once of this woman where she had a long sheet of white paper and this beautiful brush with broad head and she wrote from top to bottom. Every swish of the brush was swift and elegant and the resulting glyphs were like geometrical pictures. Occasionally she used a wonderful medium tone red that was striking. She was obviously a talented artist. Her room was bare except for the table on which she worked and I think the walls were of paper and above her were wooden rafters and below her a polished wooden floor. It was good stuff.
D,
I too like sushi, though never come across sashimi. Must look it up. Re the haiku's, they're definitely brain excercise, it took me thiry five minutes to solve the little one I published on the blog.
ps,
I'm using your monkfish and whisky recipe to entertain friends tomorrow. Got it off Cream's food blog.
Cream,
Where in the North West were you?
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