quiet hour lighting the unknown
‘the unknown’ 79/100 #haikufeltings
Tag Archives: haiga
‘candied fruit’ 78/100 #haikufeltings
candied fruit . . . preserving my sanity
‘olives’ 77/100 #haikufeltings
air-dried olives—
her advice to avoid
the sun
(this is the wet-felted bowl drying. It ended up with more wrinkles than I wanted for it, so I may needle felt it tomorrow)
‘the smell’ 76/100 #haikufeltings
the smell
of golden wheat fields . . .
millstone
Photo of the first stage of wet-felting a bowl!
‘chains’ 75/100 #haikufeltings
chains or wilderness . . .
life choices of the unfinished
bear
.
‘from my window’ 74/100 #haikufeltings
from my window
the path to
the woods
‘dawn’ 73/100 #haikufeltings
dawn …
what is life
but light
‘brass pedestal’ 72/100 #haikufeltings
brass pedestal
the ceiling fan’s
hum
‘sugar wool’ 71/100 #haikufeltings
sugar wool—
in the long queue
short tempers
‘summer night’s dream’ 70/100 #haikufeltings
summer night’s dream—
and on the eighth day
she made a bear
‘evening hour—’ 69/100 #haikufeltings
evening hour—
sound of the wind
from the mountain
.
This is a later stage of the felting
‘Alpine air’ 68/100 #haikufeltings
Alpine air—
scent of the bubbling
stream
‘old flame’ 67/100 #haikufeltings
the old flame’s
swirling skirts …
summer’s day
‘bouncing light’ 66/100 #haikufeltings
bouncing light
togetherness in a group
portrait
‘cooling down’ 65/100 #haikufeltings
cooling down
the weight of this heat
.
‘summer grass’ 64/100 #haikufeltings
summer grass
the tortoise overtakes
the hare
.
I am planning a tortoise race this Saturday and these are the badges I've made for the tortoises (suspiciously similar to the two local football clubs 🙂 ).
‘blues song’ 63/100 #haikufeltings
blues song
the barmaid wipes
her tears
‘summer solstice’ 62/100 #haikufeltings
summer solstice
the delayed train
of thought
‘swamps and floodplains’ 61/100 #haikufeltings
swamps and floodplains
the carved basalt head
covered in wool
‘strong current’ 60/100 #haikufeltings
strong current
a chunk of earth floats out
to sea
‘morning post’ 59/100 #haikufeltings
morning post
scent of the letter marked
X
‘wisdom?’ 58/100 #haikufeltings
wisdom?
even a philosopher
gets spots
‘dawn walk’ 57/100 #haikufeltings
dawn walk—
fragrance of silk white
peonies
‘dense thicket’ 56/100 #haikufeltings
dense thicket
the wounded doe runs
for cover
‘water meadows’ 55/100 #haikufeltings
water meadows
a frog I don’t know
answers my croak
‘late sunset’ 54/100 #haikufeltings
late sunset
waiting to release
the balloons
‘for your journey’ 53/100 #haikufeltings
for your journey …
we fold your dreams
under your pillow
‘summer solstice’ 52/100 #haikufeltings
summer solstice
I pick flowers
for my hair
.
(Photo: laying out the wool before wet felting)
‘Fata Morgana’ 51/100 #haikufeltings
Fata Morgana
the drift
to the unknown
‘tricks of the eye’ 50/100 #haikufeltings
tricks of the light …
above and below
the horizon
