Canada Day 2013

neighbors

without a wall

Canada Day

Posted on Facebook's NaHaiWriMo page on 7/01/2013.  Prompt was 'wall'

shooting the rapids
of the Buckinghorse River~
crazy spaniel!

We were driving the Alaska Highway with our springer spaniel, Buddy. We camped one evening by the Buckinghorse River (an apt name) in northern British Columbia. Buddy wandered away from the camp. The next we saw of him was his head bobbing down through the rapids. We yelled and waved to no avail. A ways downstream he hauled himself out, came back to camp, shook himself vigorously, and then ran off up stream to do it again!

faded and well-worn
a gentleman's raincoat
yet ... the scent of lilac

Posted on Facebook's NaHaiWriMo page on 5/15/2013.  Prompt was odour.

hot and dry

from the palm a towhee scolds ~

empty bird bath

Posted on Facebook's NaHaiWriMo page on 5/14/2013.  Prompt was necessities.

lingering cold ~
the neighbor's cat
lounges in the sun

Originally posted on Facebook's NaHaiWriMo page on 2/10/2013. Prompt was garden.

 

Baia di Napoli
autumn sunset, wine ~
Torna a Sorrento

 

Originally posted on Facebook's NaHaiWriMo page on 3/30/2012.  Prompt was romantic trip.

the cod are gone ...
long ago, young folk
moved to the city

The photograph in this haiga was taken in Red Cliffe, Newfoundland & Labrador, on June 21, 2012.  The  haiku is based, in part, on the song "Make and Break Harbour" by Stan Rogers and is intended as an homage to Mr. Rogers, to Newfoundland's outports, and to the people who lived in the outports.  

Here are some of the lines of Mr. Rogers' song:  "And the young folk don't stay with the fisherman's ways / Long ago they all moved to the cities." And the chorus: "In Make and Break Harbour the boats are so few / Too many are holed up and rotten. / Most houses stand empty old nets hung to dry / Are blown away lost and forgotten." Stan Rogers can be heard singing it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E2DFa18kYI