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Carpe Diem Weekend Meditation #85 Photo-shopping Haiku (2) Cherry Blossom rejoice! old tree limbs covered cherry blossoms ©  petra domina

Carpe Diem Weekend Meditation #85 Photo-shopping Haiku (2) Cherry Blossom Most of my 'work for pay' life was spent in the field of graphics.  The application was printed circuit boards.  I did some camera work to reduce the old red tape 4:1 images to the actual size.  I ran step and repeat machinery to make layups of the same image multiple times.  I used bifocal microscopes to correct flaws in the artworks.  Exacto knives were used to trim .0005 inch (.00127 cm) off a circuit image to maintain the proper air gap.  Art brushes and pens removed pinholes picked up during imaging.  Later in my career years the work was computerized.  Digital manipulation was much easier.  Mouse clicks and key boards eventually replaced Exacto knives and touch up pens.  In retirement those computer skills are still used daily.  I Photoshop everything from damaged photos to creating one of a kind designs for projects.  Let's see if that s...

Carpe Diem #1666 Tan Renga Challenge Month May 2019 (13) dangling prayer beads prayer beads dangling a harvest moon prayer... mountain home                           © Kobayashi Issa evening mist drifts slowly behind those silent wings        © petra domina

Carpe Diem #1665 Tan Renga Challenge Month May 2019 (12) "special" Basho "Miscanthus bud" Each season has that special something.  Spring brings such beauty and welcome relief from the cold. Summer seems to be a time for water fun, vacation and no school.  Fall brings color, harvest and relief of extreme heat.  Winter seems to bring lots of celebrations and of course cold and the chance of snow.  now then, let's go out to enjoy the snow ... until I slip and fall!                                      © Basho making the best of it snow angels fun                            ©  petra domina

Carpe Diem #1662 Tan Renga Challenge Month May 2019 (9) Watching a Snail I bow to my master Matsuo Basho told me the way to watch a snail © Chèvrefeuille learning from Honeysuckle gentle ways of haiku © petra domina

Carpe Diem #1664 Tan Renga Challenge Month May 2019 (11) Tan Renga Hineri "Only Tracks" Our host,  Chèvrefeuille, gave this assignment: Here is our delayed post as mentioned yesterday. Today I love to challenge you to create a Tan Renga Hineri. That means: I will give you a haiku to work with. You have to add a minimum of three stanza and a maximum of five stanza. You have to create the 2nd stanza, the 3rd stanza (a haiku) and a 4th stanza (two lined). If you are inspired enough than you can add also a fifth stanza (a haiku) and a 6th stanza (two lined). Try to create a "short story" and try to "close the chain" with a "ageku" (closing verse) that refers to the 1st (given) stanza. late summer alone on the beach with only tracks                © Jane Reichhold imprints left on so many shifting grains of sand rocks not a bed for rest death's rattle never ending spirit takes flight in words ocean waves refresh so...

Carpe Diem Weekend Meditation #84 Quest for a new masterpiece "Movement" (Unduo) rivulets winding across the fields oceans' journeys © petra domina. rain cutting gullies in the fields ocean journey © petra domina.

Carpe Diem #1661 Tan Renga Challenge Month May 2019 (8) Beginning of Autumn Here is the haiku to work with: cricket silence between scraping sounds autumn begins © Jane Reichhold And now it is up to you to create the second stanza of this Tan Renga. cricket silence between scraping sounds autumn begins © Jane Reichhold leaves thirst as sap recedes yellow, red and orange remain ©   petra domina

Carpe Diem #1660 Tan Renga Challenge Month May 2019 (7) Wisteria Here is the haiku by Buson to work with: In the moonlight, The color and scent of the wisteria Seems far away. © Yosa Buson the core of nature's love lost in the distant past ©   petra domina The backyard I left in Missouri complete with blooming wisteria.

Carpe Diem #1659 Tan Renga Challenge Month May 2019 (6) chestnut Here is the haiku to work with: autumn moonlight-- a worm digs silently into the chestnut. © Basho (Tr. Jane Reichhold) beneath the fireworks hardwood trembling in the night © petra domina 

Carpe Diem #1658 Tan Renga Challenge Month May 2019 (5) Wintry gusts Add to the 3 line haiku to make a tan renga. kogarashi ya mezashi ni nokoru umi-no iro Wintry gusts: on the sardine still lingers the ocean's color. © Akutagawa Ryunosuke a.k.a. Gaki (Tr.: Ueda) flashes of light twinkling like stars in the briny deep ©  petra domina   Just click on the title at the top of the post to visit  Chèvrefeuille's blog.

Carpe Diem #1657 Tan Renga Challenge May 2019 (4) Ocean Sanctuary sunday morning  all the waves in white kneeling on the beach © Jane Reichhold (Taken from "Ocean Sanctuary" an anthology of haiku inspired on the North Coast of California) The challenge is to add two lines to this haiku. sunday morning all the waves in white kneeling on the beach                                     © Jane Reichhold without loosing their virginity monks bow in front of Mother   Mary             © Chèvrefeuille My take on this: sunday morning all the waves in white kneeling on the beach                                     © Jane Reichhold black and white stilts act as priests   incense smells of sea mist          ...