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Tuesday, 9 February 2010

Witch hazel


raindrops
on witch hazel flowers -
a robin sings

Crafty Green Boyfriend took this photo in the Royal Botanic Gardens on Saturday. Meanwhile the robin was flying around, feeding at our feet and then finding perches to sing from.

22 comments:

  1. Beautiful ekphrastic Haiku, CGP. A perfect pairing of image and word.

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  2. Is just Amazing!!!
    I love this picture. You use very good the DOF.
    Briliant.

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  3. hi crafty green - this is a really lovely picture. i love to look inside the water drops in pictures like this to see what i can see!! cool. steven

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  4. Love both. Witch hazel is something I want to add to my garden this year.

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  5. Really a nice photo, Juliet - beauty all around us!

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  6. Gorgeous photograph, and words to give me a soundtrack. Thanks.

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  7. The beauty of your haiku is that it works quite well without the photo. Yet, the pairing makes them stronger.

    Enjoyed both.

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  8. It looks a bit like a sea-anemone, doesn't it? I love the image and the addition of the robin in the haiku makes it perfect.

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  10. Typo in previous posting

    A Welshman posted a robin ku this morning. What's going on on your side of the Atlantic? We're expecting 12-18 inches of snow starting around midnight.

    snow forecast
    I take another sip
    black no sugar

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  11. Anonymous5:09 pm

    Ah! Spring is coming! Wich hazel is one of my favourite harbingers of spring.

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  12. This is a beautiful shot, the water drops are fantastic:) Thank you so much for your comment and sorry for my delay, boys have kept me busy, the oldest has finally gone back to school!

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  13. I dint' even know there was such a thing as a witch hazel flower!
    :)

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  14. This picture is just fantastic. I am patiently waiting for spring, well not so patiently. COME ON SPRINGTIME!

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  15. Anonymous11:02 pm

    It looks like spring. I just left a KC Jewel, and she had posted witch hazel today, too.

    digracy

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  16. Anonymous12:22 am

    lovely haiku to accompany your beautiful photo ;-)
    Hugs and blessings,

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  17. Spring is in the posts, if not in the air!!!!!!!!!

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  18. a great pairing of photo and poem.
    witch hazel is not common in Hungary, so I did some research and found the plant flowers in October. ?
    anyway, the minute I looked at the photo I felt spring :))
    although we've got to wait almost another 2 months...

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  19. HI Szelsofa - its always early in the year over here, but there are different species of witch hazel and some may bloom at different times in different places...

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  20. How interesting to see the flower - I have some "witch hazel" in my medicine cabinet.

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  21. I really like macro flower shots, this pic looks even better when you open it it up to. Nice one Crafty B

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  22. Lovely - I can feel, smell and hear the call. Thank you. I hope all is well with you.

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