Hello, all! I hope you’re doing well this Tuesday. Here in coastal Delaware, our cardinals, finches, sparrows, and woodpeckers relish each rainy spring day. My writing has been sporadic for a couple of weeks, but our online house-hunting has been a success, and we are thrilled to have located a retirement home in a New Jersey shore community, with the closing scheduled for June 8! Our main needs were a great kitchen and back up to woods, as we do in our rented home. We got them both!
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I have been tortured by tinnitus an insidious hissing in my ears or head depending on how it is explained. It comes and goes, possibly with the barometer changes. So today, I write with a stretchy headband with blue tooth speakers at each ear and am listening to the persistent — yet to my affliction — a soothing sound of forest rain. How fitting!
You might have seen my recent post, “Early Spring a Gardening Haibun” which featured this haiga, composed with a photo I took of cherry blossoms on the Virginia highway.
More to come on Roots and Branches by the weekend! Wishing you a peaceful second half of April’s first week. Remember what April showers bring…
With love, Mel
Wonderful haiku! The first one especially is a stunner! Striking images. Great work.
Lovely haiku. You look adorable in your suit which brings back memories of Easter in Des Moines....new dresses, shoes, and basket goodies.
Happy spring!