Summer's Eye View

 May 20-June 5, 2013

 While we missed Antipolo, we also had a good time on the other side of the earth.

a shot at the famous golden gate

family reunion at Concord

meeting Lily Pad for the first time

my brother's garden in Stockton

we went for a walk to a beautiful Japanese garden after a hearty lunch

believe it or not!  this is a 20 year-old pair of Indian moccasin walking the streets of San Francisco

 Ta-ta!  to Oaksville Grocery next time.

A Warning

If we will only listen, this bird has a message.  This message was not created by the bird.  Have we forgotten that we made this sign and the message inside the sign? Yet this bird will try everything to call our attention to their eventual destruction- and the world for that matter and use our own devices, our own words to say something very important.

I recommend a Nobel Peace prize for Mr. Sea Gull.

(but what is it that i have been hearing about you?  you like cheese flavored doritos? )

some beautiful, some plain

Still, waste bins or trash cans, or litter receptacles, a rose by any other name would smell as sweet...or realistically, would stink no matter what. Some serve its purpose, others don't.

Fifth Ave. New York

Humboldt University

Ferndale

 A lot of times, we humans who invented them,  miss the point.

New York Herald Square

Here they are striking a colorful pose among birds and beasts.  But can they really do the job of cleaning up? Geographically speaking, you will find its contents, somewhere they should not be.  What do you think the fishes are saying?

Hello world!

A window opens up my day.

I watch the sunlight slowly illuminate the white curtains

before it begins to burst great, white energy that fills up the space right before my eyes.

Right outside this window is a lonely pear.

It waited for me to come.

Pears don't grow where I was born.

My mind tells me that I have seen these things before

but my heart says no.

It is always new 

time cannot create the same experience

nor recreate it.

Same things are actually different!

Soon everything will meet the ground.

The pear and the leaves will fall.

Because Nature lets even the most beautiful go

to spring new life again and again and again.

I witness this from looking out a window.