25 September, 2011

Chinese Ladies

Garden


rustling leaves
beneath the willowtree
Chinese ladies


It's nice to be back from Beijing. Notes from Maliandao will follow in due course...

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Love your Willow Tree. My second favorite variety of tree behind the good old Camelia.

Peace,
GN

Hobbes said...

Thanks, GN. This was taken a while ago - the autumn is biting, and the leaves are falling.

I like the haiku - I have often thought that the Chinese ladies in my family communicate with a gentle rustling noise, like rustling leaves. The image of our willow was an appropriate match.

Some days, if I cannot sleep and arise early, I sit downstairs in the dark, drinking tea, listening to the rustling willow in the pre-dawn hours, while my family sleep upstairs.


Toodlepip,

Hobbes