variations on koi, ki & kôyô...

Wakabacho, Tokyo
6 December 2009

a little paradise on my doorstep (2)

... brings another restful and quiet afternoon. Reading, studying, walking, thinking.

And where better to read a book on trees than among them, close to the water, between the earth and the sky?...

Paradise, paradise: so far away, so near...

Sengawa, Tokyo
18 October 2009

a little paradise on my doorstep (1)

... brings me the first intimations of autumn (though my beloved momiji are still clad in lush green).

Sengawa, Tokyo
18 October 2009

glooms & solitudes

A restful afternoon, despite a disappointing and altogether forgettable event.

The soothing effect of an art garden - walking through its delicate paths reconciles me with life's essentials, with the ability to place things and people into perspective, with no illusions nor evasions.

Being here and now, accepting the distance between us while yearning, longing for it to happen. Knowing you are not here, might well never be, yet not giving up on... well, never mind, never mind.

Ian H. Finlay was so very right: the best gardens are composed of Glooms and Solitudes and not of plants and trees. So is life, so are we. But maybe there is some sort of hopefulness in our hopelessness and loss.

Maybe, maybe.

Togakushi - Flowers

Togakushi Forest Botanical Garden

Togakushi, Nagano

5 July 2008

a closer view from my window

Imai, Nagano

16 May 2008

Kamakura (2)

Daibutsu / Great Buddha

Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture

25 March 2008

Kamakura (1)

Hase-dera

Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture

25 March 2008

(Photos by Erika K.)