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12/26/2009

Newsletter 2009

12/01/2009

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Manta ray (ei)

***** Location: Japan, Philippines
***** Season: All Summer
***** Category: Animal

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Explanation

akaei, aka ei 赤鱏 (あかえい) red stingray
ei 鱏（えい） / 鱝（えい）
Dasyatis akajei

They live in the warmer seas of Southern Japan.
Their meat is quite a regional delicacy, even in the regions of Akita and Yamagata, even up to Hokkaido.

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The manta ray (Manta birostris)
is the largest species of the rays. The largest known specimen was more than 7.6 metres (25 ft) across, with a weight of about 2,300 kilograms (5,100 lb). It ranges throughout tropical waters of the world, typically around coral reefs. They have the largest brain-to-body ratio of the sharks, rays and skates (Elasmobranchii).
Mantas have a variety of common names, including Atlantic manta, Pacific manta, devilfish, and just manta. At one time it was thought that there were many species of manta.
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The stingrays are a family—Dasyatidae—of rays,
cartilaginous fishes related to sharks. They are common in coastal tropical and subtropical marine waters throughout the world, but the family also includes species found in warmer temperate oceans such as Dasyatis thetidis, and species entirely restricted to fresh water such as D. laosensis and Himantura chaophraya. With the exception of Pteroplatytrygon violacea, all dasyatids are demersal.

They are named after the barbed stinger (actually a modified dermal denticle) on their tail, which is used exclusively in self-defense. The stinger may reach a length of approximately 35 cm, and its underside has two grooves with venom glands. The stinger is covered with a thin layer of skin, the integumentary sheath, in which the venom is concentrated. Some species have several stingers, and a few, notably Urogymnus asperrimus, lack a sting entirely.

The skin of the ray (EI in Japanese) is used as an under layer for the cord or leather wrap (known as ito in Japanese) on Japanese swords due to its hard, rough, texture that keeps the braided wrap from sliding on the handle during use. They are also used to make exotic shoes, boots, belts, wallets, jackets, and even cellphone cases.
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tansui ei 淡水エイ（たんすいえい）
fam. Himantura

. WASHOKU
kasube no karagya ni かすべのからぎゃ煮　
kasupei is dried manta fish. Boiled with soy sauce it is a dish for a celebration in the Akita region.

The fins are boiled for a long time in a hot-sweet broth.
karakai からかい is the name for Kasube in Yamagata prefecture.

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aka-ei no ema あかえいの絵馬 votive tablets of a red manta

. Nagata Shrine in Kobe 長田神社　神戸 .

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HAIKU

chef's delight:
manta in coconut milk
melts the heart

Willie Bongcaron
Manila, Philippines

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***** . ANIMALS in SUMMER
SAIJIKI

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11/25/2009

Maggot (ujimushi)

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Maggot (ujimushi)

***** Location: Japan
***** Season: All summer
***** Category: Animal

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Explanation

uji 蛆 (うじ) maggot
..... ujimushi 蛆虫（うじむし）
..... sashi さし
Made, Fliegenmade

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Maggot is the common name of the larval phase of development in insects of the order Diptera (flies).
Sometimes the word is used to denote the larval stage of any insects.
source : maggot.com

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Maggots are used for fishing bait and human therapy.

In North America, maggots have been used for years mainly as ice fishing bait; recently, however, anglers have started using them year round.

Certain live maggots have been employed since antiquity as an economical, safe and effective type of wound debridement.
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Yemen

Screw worms, but they aren't really worms at all -
they're maggots.
Screw worms are the larvae of a kind of fly that lays eggs in the open wounds of cattle. When they hatch, the maggots feed on the animal's tissue, using sharp mandibles to tear at the flesh. Screw worms can kill cattle in 10 days if left untreated.

Heike Gewi

. Yemen Saijiki : screw worms 　

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Maggots eating people in hell

from the famous Hell Pictures
地獄絵図 Jigoku Ezu

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HAIKU

confused like a maggot
in a demolished toilet --
first day in High School

Sheillah Shikawa
Kenya Saijiki

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まつしろに花のごとくに蛆湧ける　　　
真っ白に
masshiro ni hana no gotoku ni uji wakeru　

all white
like cherry blossoms
the maggots gush out

Takayanagi Katsuhiro
髙柳克弘

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***** . ANIMALS in SUMMER
SAIJIKI

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9/27/2009

Chair (isu)

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Chair (isu)

***** Location: Japan
***** Season: See below
***** Category: Humanity

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Explanation

The word CHAIR (isu　椅子　いす) just like this is a topic for haiku.

But we do have a kigo also.

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kigo for all summer

. too isu 籐椅子 rattan chair
..... too ne-isu 籐寝椅子（とうねいす) rattan chair to sleep on

An item to bring some coolness to the living room.　

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The following types of special Japanese chairs are not kigo.

zaisu 座椅子 "chair to sit on"
A typical Japanese chair without legs to be used on tatami mats.
They range from simple wooden structures to almost armchair comfort ... just without legs.

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gyokuroku 曲ろく seat for a priest
Some can be folded, others can be rotated, they fit all purposes and a Zen priest can even use it to sit in the zazen-fashion also.

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LINK with more illustration of chairs for priests:
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nagaisu, naga-isu 長椅子 bench, couch
lit. "long chair"
sofaa ソファー sofa
neisu 寝椅子 couch, (kauchi カウチ)
lit. "chair to sleep on"
Bank, Sofa Couch

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kauchi poteto カウチ･ポテト couch potato

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Stuhl

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Things found on the way

source :　viracocha.blog
書家「ＹＯＫＯ」さんの作品。
Gallery Sanmai in Fukushima
福島県郡山市駅前1-6-5

福呼ぶ「ダルマ椅子」！
A Daruma Chair to bring you luck !

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籐椅子にあれば草木花鳥来
tooisu ni areba soomoku kachoo rai

I sit on a rattan chair
grasses, trees, flowers and birds
all come to me

Takahama Kyoshi

"ka cho-fuei (kachoo fuuei 花鳥諷詠)"
Kyoshi and shasei in haiku

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椅子あれば眠る夏帽かぶりしまま
isu areba nemuru natsuboo kaburishi mama

if there is a chair
I use it to sleep
with my summer hat on

Moriga Mari 森賀まり (1960 - )

She was born in Ehime prefecture
Her husband was haiku poet
Tanaka Hiroaki 田中裕明 (1959 - 2004)

Japanese Haiku about CHAIR

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11/23/2008

Yuki Teikei Season Word List

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This is a safekeep copy only, to make sure the kigo are found when searching for a word in the world kigo database.

If you know of a better solution to this problem, please let me know.

This page is not formatted. Please go to the original for reading.

Gabi Greve

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The Yuki Teikei Haiku Season Word List
http://www.youngleaves.org/poetry/The%20Yuki%20Teikei%20Haiku%20Season%20Word%20List.htm

These season words or kigo are from the 1977-78 Haiku Journal. Originally the list was selected from Japanese saijiki (kigo "dictionaries") and translated by Kiyoko Tokutomi. Over time words have been added that have seasonal resonance for our predominantly North American members.

Copyright 1997 All rights reserved by Yuki Teikei Haiku Society.
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SPRING

Season: spring months: late February, March, April, and May; beginning of spring, early spring, departing spring, late spring, lengthening days, long day, mid-spring, spring dream, spring dusk, spring evening, spring melancholy, tranquility, vernal equinox.
Sky and Elements: balmy breeze, bright, haze or thin mist, first spring storm, hazy moon, March wind, melting snow, lingering snow, spring breeze, spring cloud, spring frost, spring moon, spring rain, spring rainbow, spring sunbeam, spring snow, slush, warm (warmth).
Landscape: flooded river/stream/brook, muddy/miry fields, muddy road, spring fields, spring hills, spring mountain, spring river, spring sea, spring tide, red tide.
Human Affairs: balloon, closing the fireplace, kite, shell gathering, grafting, planting or sowing (seeds), plowing or tilling fields, soap bubbles (blown from a pipe or wand), sleeping Buddha, spring cleaning, swing, windmill, April Fools Day/April fool, Boys Day/ carp flag, Dolls Festival, Ash Wednesday, Lent, Palm Sunday, Easter ( ~ bonnet/clothes, ~ eggs, coloring/hiding ~ eggs, ~lily, ~ parade, ~ rabbit/chicken/duckling), May Day ( ~ basket, ~ pole), Memorial Day, Mothers Day, Passover, Saint Patrick's Day, Valentines Day.
Animals: abalone, bee, baby animals (nestlings, fledglings, calf, colt, kitten, puppy, fawn, lamb, etc.), butterfly, bush warbler, cats in love, crane, flying squirrel, frog, horse-fly, lizard, pheasant, robin, mud snail, soaring skylark, stork, swallow, tadpole, whitebait (a fish), hummingbird, nightingale, wild birds' return (geese, etc.).
Plants: anemone, artichoke, asparagus sprouts, azalea, bracken, bramble, camellia, cherry blossoms, cherry tree, crocus, dandelion, daphne, blossoms or leaf buds of trees and shrubs (almond, apple, apricot, maple, oak, pear, peach, pine, wisteria, etc.), forget-me-not, grass sprouts, hawthorn, hyacinth, lilac, lily of the valley, mustard, pansy, parsley, plum blossoms, plum tree, California poppy, primrose, seaweed or laver (nori), sweet pea, shepherd's-purse, tulip, violet, willow, pussy willows or willow catkins.

SUMMER

Season: summer months*: June, July, August; beginning of summer, end of summer, midsummer, summer evening, summer morning, summer solstice, short night, slow day.
Sky and Elements: calm morning/evening, cumulus/billowing cloud, cloud peaks, coolness, drought, heat, hot, lightning, ocean fog, rainbow, sea of clouds, south wind, scented breeze, scorching/blazing sun, sudden shower, summer dew, summer fog, summer rain, summer sky, summer sun, summer wind, thunder.
Landscape: clear water, deep tree shade, summer grove, summer hills, summer lake, summer moor, summer mountains, summer sea, summer river, waterfall.
Human Affairs: awning, bare feet, beach umbrella, camp, cooling oneself, fan, fly swatter, fireworks, fountain, ice house, ice water, iced tea, mosquito net, midday nap, mowing grass, nakedness, parasol, perfume, prayers for rain, rattan chair, summer concert/opera, summer hat, summer house, summer vacation, sunburn, sunglasses, sundress, swimming, swimming pool, sweat, wind chimes, weeding, Armed Forces Day, Fathers Day, Fourth of July (Independence Day).
Animals: ant, bat, caterpillar, cicada, cormorant, crab, crayfish, firefly, flea, goldfish, heron, house fly, jellyfish(medusae, Vellella, comb jelly, etc.), kingfisher, louse, moor hen or coot, mosquito, mosquito larvae, moth, silverfish, slug, (garden) snail, snake, spider, summer butterfly, termite, toad, tree frog, trout, silkworm, water beetle.
Plants: amaryllis, barley, summer bracken, bamboo sprouts, cactus flower, carnation, summer chrysanthemum, (blue) cornflower, dahlia, dill flower, foxglove, fuchsia, gardenia, geranium, gerbera, gladiolus, summer/rank grasses/weeds, hibiscus, hollyhock, honeysuckle, hydrangea, iris, lily (calla, daylily, etc.), lotus, marguerite, marigold, mold (mildew), moss grown (mossy), oxalis, peony, phlox, pinks, evening primrose, rose, salvia, silk tree (mimosa), snapdragon, sunflower, summer thistle, yucca, zinnia, summer fruits/vegetables (apricot, banana, blackberry, cucumber, cherry, eggplant, green grapes, green (unripe) apple, green peas, green walnut, melons, pineapple, potato, strawberry, tomato).
*In Japanese haiku, the word for July is a summer kigo, even though Tanabata (in early July) is an autumn kigo (see the note under Autumn). August is an autumn month to some poets and summer to others; it is most in line with North American views to put it in summer .

AUTUMN

Season: autumn months*: September, October, November; autumn equinox, autumn evening, autumn morning, beginning of autumn, chilly night, departing autumn, long night, lingering summer heat, mid-autumn.
Sky and Elements: autumn rain, autumn sky, autumn storm, autumn wind, long night, moon (understood to be the full moon), night of stars, sardine cloud.
Landscape: autumn moor, autumn mountains, autumn sea, autumn woods, leaves turning, reaped or harvested fields, stubble fields (corn, pumpkin, etc.), vineyards.
Human Affairs: autumn loneliness, end of summer vacation, gleaning, harvest, hunting for red leaves, mushroom gathering, raking/burning leaves, scarecrow, school begins, Tanabata (Star Festival), Obon Festival/dance, Labor Day, Rosh Hashanah, Halloween (jack oÍ lantern, trick or treating, witch, black cat, ghost, haunted house), Thanksgiving.
Animals: autumn mackerel, bagworm, bird of passage, clear-toned cicada, cricket, deer, dragonfly, red dragonfly, grasshopper or locust, ground beetle, insectsÍ cry, katydid, monarch butterfly, migrating geese/cranes/storks, praying mantis, quail, salmon, shrike (butcher bird), siskin, snipe, wild geese, woodpecker.
Plants: apple, wild aster, autumn leaves, banana plant, buckwheat, bush clover, chamomile, chestnut, chrysanthemum, corn, cranberry, dried grass or plants, fallen or falling leaves (e.g. fallen willow leaves), gourds, grapes (except green grapes), huckleberry, maiden flower, morning glory, mushrooms, nuts, orchid, pampas grass plumes, pear, persimmon, pomegranate, pumpkin, reeds, reed flowers/tassels, rose of sharon, squash, vines, weed flowers.
* In Japanese haiku, many phenomena of July and August are traditionally considered autumnal: for example,Tanabata(in early July), Obon (in early August), the Milky Way, and morning glory are autumn kigo. In the Haiku Journal, they were listed in both seasons in consideration of non-Japanese poets for whom these topics unambiguously evoke summer feelings. In this list, we defer to the traditional category, to avoid confusion.

WINTER

Season: winter months: December, January, early or mid- February; start of winter, depth of winter, short day, winter day, winter morning, winter night.
Sky and Elements: frost/hoarfrost, freeze, hail, ice, icicle, north wind, sleet, snow/first snow, winter cloud, winter moon, winter rain/first winter rain, winter solstice, winter wind.
Landscape: winter creek or stream, winter mountain, winter sea or ocean, winter seashore, winter garden, withered moor.
Human Affairs: banked fire, bean soup, blanket, brazier, buying a new diary, hot chocolate, charcoal fire, cold or flu, cough, foot warmer, gloves/mittens, grog, heater, hunting, falconer, fish trapper, ice hockey, ice skating or skates, ice fishing, old diary, old calendar, overcoat/fur coat, popcorn, quilted clothes, shawl, skiing/skis, sleigh ride, snowshoes, snowman, snowball fight, winter seclusion, winter desolation, winter vacation, whale watching, Chanukah, Chinese New Year, Leap Year Day, Groundhog Day, Christmas Eve or Day (Christmas tree, tree decorating or decorations (lights, glass balls, etc.), wrapping gifts, wreath, cutting greens, gingerbread men, holiday shopping), Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Twelfth Night.
Animals: bear, codfish, fox, hibernation, marten or sable, oyster, owl, perch, rabbit, reindeer, sardine, sea slug, swan, weasel, wild duck, winter birds, winter bee, winter fly, winter sparrow, winter wild geese, wolf, whale, wren.
Plants: carrot, celery, dried persimmon, (dried) prunes, early plum blossom, holly, heavenly bamboo(Nandina), pine nuts, poinsettia, radish, scallion,tangerine /mandarin orange, turnip, winter camellia, winter chrysanthemum, winter grass, winter narcissus, winter peony, winter quince, winter tree or grove, withered or frost-nipped plants (tree, grasses, leaves, twig, etc.).

NEW YEAR

Sky and Elements: first morning, first sunrise, new years'sun.
Human Affairs: first day of the year, first dream of the year, first writing/poem/brush painting, new diary, new calendar, New Years' Eve or Day, year of the (Zodiac) animal (Rooster, Horse, Rabbit, etc.).
*January 1; but late January or early February according to the lunar calendar formerly in use.

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11/21/2008

Trinidad and Tobago Saijiki

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Trinidad and Tobago SAIJIKI

The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is an archipelagic state in the southern Caribbean, lying northeast of the South American nation of Venezuela and south of Grenada in the Lesser Antilles. It also shares maritime boundaries with Barbados to the northeast and Guyana to the southeast. The country covers an area of 5,128 square kilometres (1,979 sq mi) and consists of two main islands, Trinidad and Tobago, and 21 smaller islands. Trinidad is the larger and more populous of the main islands; Tobago is much smaller, comprising about 6% of the total area and 4% of the population. The nation lies outside the hurricane belt.

Originally settled by Amerindians at least 7,000 years ago, Trinidad and Tobago was occupied by Arawakan- and Cariban-speaking peoples at the time of European contact in 1498. A history of slavery and indentureship has left the country with a mixture of African, Indian, European, Middle Eastern and Chinese people. All these groups have left an imprint on the national culture, and there is an increasingly high percentage of mixed-race people. Trinidad and Tobago became an independent nation (from the United Kingdom) in 1962 and a republic in 1976.

Officially Trinidadians or Tobagonians, the people from Trinidad and Tobago are often informally referred to as Trinbagonians or Trinis. Unlike most of the English-speaking Caribbean, Trinidad and Tobago is a primarily industrialised country whose economy is based on petroleum and petrochemicals. Trinidad and Tobago is famous for its pre-Lenten Carnival and as the birthplace of steelpan, calypso, Soca music, and limbo.

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. . . . . KIGO from Trinidad and Tobago

Banana fruit and tree

Boxing Day
December 26

Caladium

Christmas

Corpus Christi, The Thursday after Trinity Sunday

Divali (Diwali)

Easter Bonnet

Eid-ul-Fitr (Ramadan ends)

Emancipation Day

Flamboyand tree

Flood, flodding

Hurricane Warning Tropical Atlantic Storm season

Independence Day

Indian Arrival Day
May 30

Jouvert (Carneval)

Labour Day
June 19
. . . . . Labour Day, USA

Mud

Parade of the bands

Parang .. Serenaders

Polling Day

Poui trees

Republic Day
September 24

Sorrel (Hibiscus sabdariffa)

Spiritual Baptist/Shouter Liberation Day
March 30

"We Beat" Festival

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Caribbean Kigo Kiyose

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Non-seasonal TOPICS

Cakes for teatime, sweetbread, teaplate

Mayaro beach

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Caribbean Kigo Kiyose

Caribbean Kigo Kukai BLOG
Gillena Cox

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Carribean Kigo Collection from Gillena Cox!
external LINKs ... carribeankigo

Dry weather(DW) / January to June
Temperate season parallel : Spring
Temperate season parallel : Summer

Wet weather (WW) / July to December
Temperate season parallel : Summer
Temperate season parallel : Autumn

Year Round (YR) (Topics)

Caribbean Kigo Kiyose

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Coat of Arms

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Gillena Cox : Haiku BLOG
Trinidad and Tobago
Lunch Break

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11/20/2008

Sonoran Saijiki

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Sonoran Saijiki, USA

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Conceived, Compiled, and Edited by Laura Orabone

Text quoted from
A Natural History of the Sonoran Desert. by Steven J. Phillips (Editor), Patricia Wentworth Comus (Editor),
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. University of California Press (December, 1999)

Haiku on this page, unless quoted otherwise,
are © by Laura Orabone.

.. .. .. SPRING Yellow Season (Late February, March, April)

.. .. Season

.. .. Heaven

Warmer days

Drier days

Warm afternoons

.. .. Earth

Snow melt

Creeks and washes run

Sound of water

.. .. Humanity

Yaqui Deer Dancers

.. .. Observances

Easter

.. .. Animals

Hawks arrive and breed
Swainson’s
Zone-tailed
Black

Hummingbirds continue to arrive
Broad-billed
Black-chinned
Magnificent

White-winged doves return

Reptiles become more active, begin breeding
Desert iguanas
lesser earless lizards
western whiptails

Rattlesnakes stir

Bobcat kittens

Coyote pups

Fox kits

Owls breed
Elf

Burrowing

Barn

Desert tortoise and desert box turtles mate

Turkey vultures return to southern Arizona for the summer

Bird migration

Iron-cross blister beetles feed on brittlebush blossoms

Butterflies
great blue hairstreak
hackberry
skipper
blue
queen

.. .. Plants

Wildflowers abound
globe mallow
penstemon
evening primrose
desert marigolds
blue dicks
gilias
bladderpod
dock
chia
desert hyacinth

Shrubs bloom
desert lavender
hop bush
brittlebush
Mormon tea

Bean trees bloom
blue palo verde
catclaw acacia
mesquites

Cacti bloom
Prickly Pear (North America, Opuntia Family)
cholla
hedgehogs
some saguaros

Ocotillo blossoms

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Spring Haiku

white-winged dove:
your flapping tail announces
Spring is Here!

yellow season
the dog path palo verde
bends in full bloom

Spring evening
deep inside the pine
the owl’s call

all along
the Acacia branch
spring returning

Easter Sunday
globemallow bends under
sparrow’s weight

Acacia blossoms
a pair of finches
line their nest with gold

.. .. .. SUMMER (Foresummer Drought and Summer Monsoons)

.. .. Season

.. .. Heaven

Big Dipper

.. .. Earth

Clear, dry and hot days

Hottest, driest part of the year

Retreat to mountains for cool

Sizzling desert pavement

Bone dry

Arid

.. .. Humanity

many deaths crossing the desert

.. .. Observances

Cinco de Mayo

Tohono O’odham Saguaro fruit harvest

.. .. Animals

Bats migrate into the area from Mexico to feed on night-blooming cacti/plants
Mexican long-tongued
lesser long-nosed

Gila monster eggs hatch

Red-spotted toads mate in mountain canyons, make trilling sounds

Moths pollinate night-blooming cacti/plants

Snakes bear live young or lay eggs
Gopher
common kingsnake
Sonoran whipsnake
western diamondback
tiger rattlesnake

Buzz of mating cicadas

Lesser Nighthawks fill the sky with trilling calls

Hawks breed in riparian areas with tall cottonwood or sycamore trees
Gray hawks
Black hawks
Zone-tailed Hawks
Mississippi Kites

Mule deer growing their antlers

.. .. Plants

Nocturnally blooming cacti in bloom
Saguaros
Senitas
organ pipes
queen-of-the-night (night-blooming cereus)

Desert ironwood and smoke trees put out lavendar blossoms

Desert spoon and soaptree yuccas send up tall, woody bloomstalks with white flowerettes

Red, trumpet-shaped flowers bloom in mountains (penstemon, coral bean)

Saguaro fruit ripen, split, fall

Pink-colored scats (from animals eating cactus fruit)

Bean pods on mesquite, palo verde, and acacia trees ripening

jojoba seeds form

Sacred Datura blossoms

Organ pipe cactus have pale lavender blossoms

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Summer Haiku

cicada's rasp
the baby's whine
– my god, this heat!

June heat
deepening her burrow
the desert tortoise

scouring away
the morning’s cool
cicadas’ song

one hundred ten degrees
halfway through the book on
anger management

Summer Solstice
the sparrows’ bath
of dust

ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

... ... ... SUMMER MONSOON (July, August, early September)

.. .. Season

.. .. Heaven

Afternoon thunderstorms

Thunderheads

Lightning

.. .. Earth

Humid

Creeks, washes and arroyos run with water

.. .. Humanity

many deaths crossing the desert

.. .. Observances

.. .. Animals

Second breeding season for many animals

Butterflies emerge with rains
Monarchs
Sulphurs
queens
fritillaries
two-tailed swallowtails

Palo verde beetles emerge

Toads emerge and mate
Spadefoot
Sonoran green
red-spotted

Bats migrate south, following the agave blooms

Swarms of winged leaf-cutter and harvester ants after heavy rains

Empress Leilia hackberry butterflies

Regal horned lizards hatch

Bird migrations

Hummingbirds
New England Saijiki : Hummingbird in Spring
Yuki Teikei lists in it spring.
Haiku World (Higginson) lists it in summer.

Rufous
Allen’s

Snout butterflies

Bird migration peaks

Raptors and carrion-feeders congregate, preparing to move south
Turkey Vultures
Western Kingbirds
hawks

Desert bighorn sheep breeding

Butterflies
gray hairstreaks
funeral duskwings
painted ladies

Mule deer antlers get velvet

.. .. Plants

Wildflowers
summer poppies
Devil's Claw (Southern USA) Teufelskralle
morning glories

Agave blossoms

Prickly pear cacti fruit ripens

More pink poop

Plants bloom
barrel cacti
asters
four o’clocks
buffalo gourds
ground cherries

Desert hackberry fruit (orange) ripen

Sunflowers

Golden yellow blooms
Snakeweed
Turpentinebush
Goldeneyes
telegraph plants

Sticker and burr season (cottonwood ragweed/cocklebur)

Seewp-willow shrubs bloom in washes and canyon bottoms

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Summer Monsoon Haiku

monsoon's return
a crown of cactus flowers
the smell of creosote

August rain
the mountain shudders
getting its foothills wet

cloudless afternoon
the dry rattle
of the bean trees

Monsoon ..(India, South Asia)

.. .. .. AUTUMN FALL (Late September, October, November)

.. .. Season

.. .. Heaven

.. .. Earth

cooler nights

winter returns to the mountains

mountain snow returns

cold temps on the desert, especially at night

.. .. Humanity

Winter tourists return (snowbirds fly in for the winter)

allergies

.. .. Observances

El Dias de los Muertos

.. .. Animals

swarms of butterflies, bees, wasps, and beetles

snakes burrow

rosy boas in warmer areas give birth

wintering hawks arrive (Northern Harriers, Rough-legged and Ferruginous Hawks, Kestrels, Marlins, and Prairie Falcons)

ravens return to the deserts; loud groups of juveniles roost in tall cottonwoods in evenings

butterflies
great purple hairstreaks
snouts
sulphurs
swallowtails
checkerspots

hummingbirds – Anna’s, Costa’s

bobcats, coyotes, badgers, and gray and kit foxes remain active

male desert mule deer lose their velvet
..... sparring begins

loud flocks of wintering sparrows

high-floating raptors

.. .. Plants

desert broom seeds in cloudy puffs look like snow on the ground

plants fruiting
barrel cacti
soapberry trees
desert hackberries
wolfberries

fall foliage in canyons (sycamores, cottonwoods, ashes, and walnuts)

desert mistletoe berries form

golden grasslands

.. .. .. WINTER (December, January, early February)

.. .. Season

.. .. Heaven

Orion’s Belt

Jet contrails

Overcast skies at night after rains

.. .. Earth

Equipatas – gentle winter rains

Freezing temps at night

Mountain snowfall

.. .. Humanity

.. .. Observances

.. .. Animals

Mockingbirds mate

Curve-billed thrashers mate

Packrats mate

Cactus wrens build nests in cholla

Hummingbirds mate

Phainopeplas mate

Mule deer in their “rut”

Mule deer sparring

Mountain lions active

Hummingbirds mate

Gila woodpeckers hammer on trees, metal pipes, and swamp coolers

Great Horned Owls call in evening or before dawn, mate

Pipevine swallowtail butterflies

.. .. Plants

Cottonwood blossoms

New grass

Wildflowers return
Mexican gold poppies
lupines
owl-clover
ajo lily

Winter Haiku

January sky:
beneath cloudy water
sits the pearl moon

.. .. .. NEW YEAR

.. .. Season

.. .. Heaven

.. .. Earth

.. .. Humanity

.. .. Observances

.. .. Animals

.. .. Plants

Desert mistletoe (with fruit)
World Kigo Database - Mistletoe

Christmas cactus fruit

Netleaf hackberry fruit

Bare trees

Ocotillo leaves

Creosote leave

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Editor: Laura Orabone, USA
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SouthernArizonaHaiku/

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Related Saijiki:

The North American Saijiki Project

Southern California Kiyose

Oklahoma Saijiki

North American Kiyose

North American Prairie Saijiki
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Outside LINKS

Roadrunner Haiku Journal, Jason Sanford Brown

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ハミング‐バード Hummingbirds
are birds that comprise the family Trochilidae.
They are among the smallest of birds, most species measuring in the 7.5–13 cm (3–5 in) range. Indeed, the smallest extant bird species is a hummingbird, the 5-cm Bee Hummingbird.
The Aztec god Huitzilopochtli is often depicted as a hummingbird.
Trinidad and Tobago is known as "The land of the hummingbird," and a hummingbird can be seen on that nation's coat of arms and 1-cent coin as well as its national airline, Caribbean Airlines.
©　More in the WIKIPEDIA !

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Thirst in the night throat
Pre dawn journey to water
Mountain lion print

©　-Linda Noel, Ukiah 2004

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silence
of the mountain camp . . .
roar of a mountain lion

©　Nicole Boliard, 1998

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photo : Hummingbird by Quentin Huffaker

a bloom
to hummingbirds and bees ?
summer dreams

no thoughts
of small, hummingbird
feeding

- Shared by Louis Osofsky -
Joys of Japan, 2012

dawn mist ...
a hummingbird fans
the trumpet vines

- Shared by John Wisdom -
Joys of Japan, 2012

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a hummingbird feeds,
dancing in a ray of light
scarlet, emerald

- Shared by Charles Henderson -
Joys of Japan, 2012

- Hummingbird and Happy Haiku

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11/16/2008

Oklahoma Saijiki

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.. .. .. .. .. .. The Oklahoma Saijiki

The Southwest of Northern Amerika

This is an ongoing collection under construction.

Please add your kigo and information.

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Related Information

Oklahoma Official Website
http://www.ok.gov/

Oklahoma ~ Prairie Wildflowers ~

The Nature Conservancy, Oklahoma
Tallgrass Prairie

Four Canyon
Nickel
Pontotoc Ridge
Tallgrass Prairie
http://nature.org/wherewework/northamerica/states/oklahoma/preserves/

Oklahoma National Parks

Oklahoma Scenic Drives

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The Collection of Seasonal Words

.. .. .. SPRING

.. .. Season

.. .. Heaven

.. .. Earth

.. .. Humanity

pony soldiers rise from Main Street

.. .. Observances

.. .. Animals

dust devils : Late Spring / Early Summer

.. .. Plants

Prairie Trout Lily , Erythronium mesochoreum
Arrow-leaved Violet, Viola sagittata
Common Vetch , Vicia sativa
Cream Wild Indigo, Baptisia bracteata
Fringed Puccoon, Lithospermum incisium
False Garlic, Nothoscordum bivalve
Gray-green Wood Sorrel, Oxalis dillenii
Jack-In-The-Pulpit , Arisaema triphyllum
New Jersey Tea, Ceanothus americanus
Prairie Parsley, Polytaenia nuttallii
Wild Parsley, Lomattium foeniculaceum
Prairie Iris, Nemastylis geminiflora
Prairie Verbena, Verbena bipinnatifida
Spring Beauty, Claytonia virginica
White Wind Flower, Anemone caroliniana
Wild Strawberry, Fragaria virginiana
Whitlow Grass, Draba brachycarpa
Yellow Star Grass, Hypoxis hirsuta

Flowers in May
(might also be considered early summer kigo)

Bindweed, Convolvulus arvensis
Blue Wild Indigo, Baptisia australis
Indigo Bush, Amorpha fruticosa
Buckley's Penstemon, Penstemon buckleyi
Carolina Larkspur, Delphinium carolinianum
Common Spiderwort, Tradescantia ohiensis
Common Sticker Weed (Horse Nettle), Solanum carolinense
Green Milkweed, Asclepias viridis
Ground Plum, Astragalus crassicarpus
Large Flowered Coreopsis, Coreopsis grandiflora
Meadow Garlic, Allium canadense
Nuttall's Death Camass, Zigadenus nuttallii
Pale Poppy Mallow, Callirhoe alcaeoides
Prairie Ragwort, Senecio plattensis
Prairie Wild Rose, Rosa setigera
Wild Four-o'clock, Mirabilis nyctaginea

Wild Rose, Rosa species

Scurfy Pea, Psoralidium tenuiflorum
Sensitive Briar, Mimosa quadrivalvis
Showy Evening Primrose, Oenothera speciosa
Toothed Evening Primrose, Calylophus serrulatus
Tube False Dandelion, Pyrrhopappus grandiflorus
Wild Hyacinth, Camassia scilloides
Wooly Yarrow, Achillea lanulosa
Yellow Sweet Clover, Melilotus officinalis

.. .. .. SUMMER

.. .. Season

HEAT (atsusa in Japanese)

.. .. Heaven

moon, fingernail moon of summer
World Kigo Database : MOON and its LINKS

sagitarius rising

.. .. Earth

copper salts
(sublime from the rise of mineral gypsum salts in a drought, usually, summer, as a layer of mineral of a green color, which, contrasts to the rust color clay or chalk color of gypsum -- irony because the drought and heat turn the soil to patches of "green").

dry river bed

.. .. Humanity

.. .. Observances

.. .. Animals

bees, wild bees
World Kigo Database : Bee (mitsubachi)

bullsnake

chiggers (sometime called "red bugs")

cotton tail rabbit

coyote songs

dust devil

Grackle bird (Quiscalus mexicanus)

jackrabbit

mule-deer

perigrin falcon (summer in Oklahoma)

quail, flush of quail

roadrunner

Scissor-tailed flycatcher State bird of Oklahoma

tarantula

tarantula wasp

turkey, wild turkey

white-tail deer

.. .. Plants

Ashy Sunflower, Helianthus mollis
Baldwin Ironweed, Vernonia baldwinii
Bitterweed, Helenium amarum
Black-eyed Susan, Rudbeckia hirta
Blue Hearts, Buchnera americana
Blue Vervain, Verbene hastata
Buffalo Bur, Solanum rostratum
Butterfly Milkweed, Asclepias tuberosa

Clasping-leaved Coneflower, Rudbeckia amplexicaulis
Common Milkweed, Asclepias syriaca
Compass Plant, Silphium laciniatum
Cottonwood Populus deltoides

Devil's Claw (Southern USA) Teufelskralle

Golden Coreopsis, Coreopsis tinctoria
Hairy Wild Petunia, Ruellia humilis
Hedge Parsley, Torilis arvensis
Indian Blanket, Gaillardia pulchella
Lead Plant, Amorpha canescens
Lemon Mint (Horse Mint), Monarda citriodora

milkweed pods
mimosa
Mullein, Verbascum thapsus

Pale Indian Plantain, Amoglossum atriplicifolium
Pale Purple Coneflower, Echinacea pallida
Partridge Pea, Chamaecrista fasciculata
Pitcher's Clematis, Clematis pitcheri
Prickly Pear (North America, Opuntia Family)
Prairie Dodder, Cuscuta pentagona
Prairie Dogbane, Apocynum cannabinum
Prairie Rose Gentian, Sabatia campestris
Purple Prairie Clover, Dalea purpurea

quite beans

Rattlesnake master, Eryngium yuccifolium
Rosin Weed, Silphium integrifolium

Showy Tick Trefoil, Desmodium canadense
Smooth Sumac, Rhus glabra
Snow-on-the-mountain, Euphorbia marginata
sunflower, wild sunflower
Wavy-leaved Thistle, Cirsium undulatum
wildflowers, desert wildflowers
White Prairie Clover, Petalostemum candida
White Wild Indigo, Baptisia alba
Wild Bergamot, Monarda fistulosa
Wild Potato Vine, Ipomoea padurata
Woundwort, Stachys pulustris

.. .. .. AUTUMN

.. .. Season

.. .. Heaven

.. .. Earth

.. .. Humanity

the newspaper page on a tumbleweed
Sunday comics

.. .. Observances

.. .. Animals

.. .. Plants

Ashy Sunflower, Helianthus mollis
Blue Sage, Salvia azurea
Broom Weed, Amphiachyris dracunculoides
Cardinal Flower, Lobelia cardinalis
Fruit of Jack-In-The-Pulpit, Areisaema triphyllum
Leavenworth Eryngo, Eryngium leavenworthii
Jerusalem Artichoke, Helianthus tuberosus
Mare's Tail, Conyza canadensis
Roundhead Lespedeza, Lespedeza capitata Michx

. Rough Blazing Star, Liatris aspera .

Slender Lespedeza, Lespedeza virginica
Tall Boneset, Eupatorium altissimum
Tall Coreopsis, Coreopsis tripteris
Yellow Ironweed, Verbesina alternifolia
Velvety Gaura, Gaura paviflora
Wax Goldenweed, Haplopappus ciliatus
Wild Quinine, Parthenium integrifolium

.. .. .. WINTER

.. .. Season

.. .. Heaven

.. .. Earth

.. .. Humanity

smoke curls from the cookfire
mesquite smells

.. .. Observances

.. .. Animals

.. .. Plants

.. .. .. NEW YEAR

.. .. Season

.. .. Heaven

.. .. Earth

.. .. Humanity

.. .. Observances

.. .. Animals

.. .. Plants

.. .. .. Non-Seasonal Topics

.. .. Season

.. .. Heaven

.. .. Earth

.. .. Humanity

.. .. Observances

.. .. Animals

.. .. Plants

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..... North America Saijiki !!!!!
More LINKs from the World Kigo Database

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11/15/2008

Kiyose for Northern America

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Kiyose for Northern America

From
A Dictionary of Haiku by Jane Reichhold
The link to the original saijiki is...
http://www.ahapoetry.com/aadoh/adofinde.htm

Western Obvious Spring Kiyose
edit from: A Dictionary of Haiku by Jane Reichhold
Michael Baribeau
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WHCworldkigo/message/200

SPRING

SPRING Occasions
April Fool
Easter bunny
Easter eggs
Easter
May Day
Memorial Day
wedding

SPRING Celestial
lingering cold
passing of spring
Vernal Equinox

SPRING Terrestrial
Flooding
melting snow
run-off

SPRING Livelihood
newly-weds
planting
plowing
snowmen melting
spring housecleaning
wedding

SPRING Animals
baby birds
baby rabbits
chicks
fawn
lambs
migrating birds' return
nest
spider - spring

SPRING Plants
budding birches
buds
cherry blossoms
cherry budding
first flowers
grass - new
new leaves
seedlings
young leaves

SUMMER
SUMMER Occasions
dog days
Fourth of July
school's out
Summer Solstice
vacation

SUMMER Celestial
coolness
drought
heat
heat shimmer
heat waves
hot day
long day
south wind
summer moon
wind - cool
wind - warm

SUMMER Terrestrial
beach
desert
dunes
riverbed
salt flats
surf
swamp

SUMMER Livelihood
bare feet
beachcomber
biking
boating
camping
fan, ceiling fan
forest fires
hiking
picnic
pool
sandals
straw hat
sun bathing
sunburn
surfers
sweat
summer illness
summer lovemaking
swimming
vacation
wicker chairs

SUMMER Animals
cicada
firefly
fledglings
grasshopper
hornets
lady bugs
lizard
mosquito
moth
nestlings

SUMMER Plants
cactus
dune grass
farewell-to-spring
poison ivy
sunflower
water lilies
watermelon

AUTUMN

AUTUMN Occasions
end of summer vacations
Halloween
pumpkin pie
pumpkins/jack o'lanterns
Thanksgiving
trick or treating

AUTUMN Celestial
beginning of autumn
close of autumn
eventide
equinox
Indian summer
moon - harvest
moon - hunters
shorter days

AUTUMN Terrestrial
harvested fields

AUTUMN Livelihood
canning
harvest
hunting
raking/burning leaves
scarecrow

AUTUMN Animals
deer
migrating fowl
squirrel
turkey

AUTUMN Plants
acorns
apples
bare bushes
bare trees
fallen leaves
golden leaves
pumpkins
tree leaves fall
willow leaves fall

WINTER

WINTER Occasions
celebrating the solstice
Christmas bazaar
Christmas bells
Christmas carols
Christmas Day
Christmas Eve
Christmas lights
Christmas play
Christmas shopping
Christmas tree
trimming the tree
white Christmas
Winter Solstice

WINTER Celestial
beginning of winter
day in winter
days - shorter
departing year
ice
night - the longest
snowflakes
snowing
snow - blowing
snow - melting
snow - new
snow - predicted
snow - viewing
sun in winter
winter

WINTER Terrestrial
frozen ground
glacier
ice
icicles
snow
snowbound

WINTER Livelihood
chores in winter
death in winter
farmers in winter
fishermen in winter
ice skating
making snowmen
skiing
sledding
snowbound
snow pictures
snow shoveling
winter clearance sales
winter illness

WINTER Animals
tracks in snow
winter fly

WINTER Plants
bracken - winter
ice plants
poinsettia
winter bushes

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Western Obvious Kiyose
Strickland Suppliment edited from Johnye Strickland
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WHCworldkigo/message/201

SPRING

Spring Plants:
early/spring wildflowers
bridal wreath

Spring Animals:
calving (birth of domesticated farm animals)
rutting (mating of wild animals--e.g., deer)

SUMMER

Summer Plants:
ragweed (late July, August)
hay fever season (caused by ragweed/goldenrod)

Summer Celestial:
high humidity (esp. July, August)
drought (in non-rainy years)
huricanes

Summer Animals:
gnats
treefrogs
snakeskins (from shedding)
scorpions

Summer Events:
Farmers' markets
back yard barbecues
watering lawns
mowing/weeding

AUTUMN

Autumn Events:
bobbing for apples
wearing costumes
Harvest parties (festivals; formerly, hayrides)

WINTER

Winter Events:
Hannukah
Kwaanza
New Year's Eve/Day
carrolling (Christmas singers stroll through the streets and sing
carrols;
householders invite them in and give them refreshments)
making snow icecream
sledding (skiing in some parts, but alas, not usually in the South)
Influenza season

Edited by Michael Baribeau
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WHCworldkigo/message/200

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11/02/2008

Alaska Saijiki

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Alaska Kiyose

The following list has been kindly provided and will be updated by the Billie Wilson, who takes care of the Alaska Saijiki.
http://home.gci.net/~alaskahaiku/saijiki.html

If you find a word here, go to the link and read more about it, look at some great pictures about the nature in Alaska. If you write a haiku on an Alaska kigo, please send your contribution also to this database, if you find the time.

.. .. .. SPRING

first bear ... ... Snowdrops ... ... Iditarod dogsled race ... ... tulip shoots ... ... put boat in water after winter storage ... ... crocus appears ... ... first varied thrush ... ... first robin ... ... first skunk cabbage ... ... first hummingbird (roufous) ... ... avalanche warnings ... ... gulls return to Anchorage ... ... first Winnebago ... ... ice goes out on the Nenana River ... ... humpback whales return home from Hawaii ... ... first moose calf ... ... first mosquito ... ... Spring King Salmon Derby ... ... first cruise ship ... ... Cherry Blossoms (sakura, Japan) ... ... lupine blooms ... ... ground dogwood blooms (bunchberry) ... ... bunchberries after blooming ... ... forget-me-nots bloom (Alaska state flower)

.. .. .. SUMMER

halibut ready to catch ... ... coho (silver) salmon start to run ... ... Salmonberry ... ... watermelon berries ... ... magpies fledge ... ... Sitka roses bloom ... ... fireweed blooms ... ... fireweed goes to seed ... ... bore tide ... ... Golden North Salmon Derby ... ... combat fishing

.. .. .. AUTUMN

scent of high-bush cranberries ... ... termination dust ... ... first Frost (shimo, Japan) ... ... first magpie ... ... last cruise ship

.. .. .. WINTER

first Snow (yuki) ... ... first redpoll

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Cindy Zackowitz
May 28, 1965 - September 23, 2012

It was with great sorrow that we learned of Cindy's death on September 23, 2012. Here are Cindy's words about how much she loved haiku. We are all blessed to be able to have the legacy of that love through the work she shared with the haiku community worldwide.

source : alaskahaiku/cindy.html

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Season: Winter
Category: Heaven

Taku Winds
These winds occur an average of four times a year from October through April in Southeast Alaska. Hurricane force wind gusts (72 mph or greater) occur roughly once every two years during these Taku wind events. Taku winds produce strong wind shear and turbulence that can affect the operation of air transportation in the area. Taku winds can also cause dangerous marine weather conditions. The Taku River, just south of Juneau, was named after the cold t'aakh wind, which occasionally blows down from the mountains.
©　More in the WIKIPEDIA !

the taku wind flails the bullwhip kelp
Alan Pizzarelli

. WKD : Wind in all seasons .

Nereocystis (Greek for "mermaid's bladder")
is a genus of kelp. It forms thick beds on rocks, and is an important part of kelp forests. There is only one species, Nereocystis luetkeana.

Some common names include edible kelp, bull kelp, bullwhip kelp, ribbon kelp, giant kelp, bladder wrack, and variations on these names.
©　More in the WIKIPEDIA !
. WKD : Seaweed (kaisoo 海草).

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