is a small resort on the shores of Lake Bodensee (also known as Lake Constance). Hoedingen, a northern part of the district and town of Ueberlingen, is a quiet, beautiful place, where you can hear the sound of the wind, the grapes expand and fill with mouthwatering juice, the sound of the grass growing…
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Hoedingen
between skies and water
cicada songs
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Cberlingen
http://www.hoedingen.de/
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dry spell solace in your lips
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Photograph: Japanese Garden, in the Botanic Gardens, Augsburg.
botanic garden –
seniors in white, practice
Crane Spreads its Wings
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: garden
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who is to say it took the wrong turn passion flower
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: passion
evening glow
all those brake lights
ahead
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: red
ladybug
her polka dot
bikini
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: ruby
evensong
the boy soprano’s voice
cracks
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: music
soft fruit
swelling on the branches
full buck moon
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: moon
From the Farmers’ Almanac:
“July is normally the month when the new antlers of buck deer push out of their foreheads in coatings of velvety fur. It was also often called the Full Thunder Moon, for the reason that thunderstorms are most frequent during this time. Another name for this month’s Moon was the Full Hay Moon.”
pine tree cicadas
the bleached cotton dress
of my youth
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: white
bindweed
lingers at the gate –
my teenage years
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: linger
death’s-head moth
I pick a scarlet red
lipstick
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: moth
tuning in
to marshland songs –
heatwave
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: outside
your email
in my inbox –
cooing dove
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: chirp
firewall
the screen animals
disappear
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: wall
Welcoming new prompter for July: Gillena Cox
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pearl necklace song of a barefoot child
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: pearl
Remember my haiga ‘euphorbia’ posted here a few weeks ago? To see it, please click here
The original photo was of my pond. Below left is another photo, taken in May last year. Then we had a terrible storm. On the 20th of June 2013, the winds raged round the pond, the garden, the whole city; the impact of this storm on my pond can be seen below right:
needles, then trees
swirl round the pond —
eye of the storm
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sleeping beauty —
how the storm covered
your charms
longest day
the storm tips
the balance
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: fragment
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From the storm in Neusaess, Germany
summer solstice –
a minute longer
in the tree pose
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: Balance
picture and frame
barefoot on the last bus
home
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: matching
Photo and image manipulation: Stella Pierides
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catching the sun daylilies
NaHaiWriMo prompt: pairs dance
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Photo: Whitstable harbour, Kent, UK.
Photo and image manipulation: Stella Pierides
spinning barefoot –
yarn after yarn the fabric
of my tales
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: spin
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forcing life out of a stone
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: zoo animal moment
Photo and image manipulation: Stella Pierides
pond fountain
the solar cell gets
little sun
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: Fountain
Mosel vineyards
at the end of the steep climb
raising a glass
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MaHaiWriMo prompt: climb
beyond a shadow of a doubt
white geranium
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: shadows
stepping stones
this time round the river
is wetter
NaHaiWriMo prompt: footsteps
Photo: The Schmutter, near Neusaess, DE.
Photo and image: Stella Pierides
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gliding through channels
in the Garden of Eden
Marbled Ducks
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: reeds
Related news article here
dawn chorus /
learning to remain /
silent //
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: wake
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grandad’s hat telling it as it is
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Rembrandt’s gaze
the hush in the visiting
school class
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: Art
