Gaviota Coast: Photo style Japanese Haiku

[billie_morini]

Roxy and billie spent Sunday morning at yet another secret spot in their beloved Gaviota Coast. Just a dog and a boy, so to speak. We will not reveal the location. However, a little bit of walking, resting, bit more walking, and long rest produced some photographic Haiku. To the benefit of some, Haiku is a Japanese verse poetry form most often composed (in English versions) of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables. A haiku often features an image, or a pair of images, meant to depict the essence of a specific moment in time. Billie attempts to create this poetry with nature photos. As usual, Roxy is more interested if it involves something edible.

[billie_morini]

Another Haiku following the same theme.

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A somewhat similar Haiku. Billie wondered why Mrs. Morini and he do not collect and eat more kelp and dulse from the pristine sea they love so much. Roxy countered, "If it isn't meat or something stinky, then it can't be worth eating!" I guess this, too, is a kind of poetry (e.g., dog poetry).

[billie_morini]

Not Haiku. We found this fossilized bone today in a rock outcrop at the base of the cliffs. The pocket knife is included for scale. The same rock also contains organic debris and kerogen (complex fossilized organic material, found in oil shale and other sedimentary rock).

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Back to topic: My Roxy's companionship is also haiku to me. This photo is also from this morning and made on the ranch land we are fortunate enough to have permission to cross.

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The bigger picture. This is the ranch land we are permitted to cross. There is poetry here, too. If your appreciation does not achieve anything poetic, then know this field is actually sacred land. This land you see is sacred to the Chumash Indian nation here in our region. There is an annual prayer ceremony in this field. It is lead by a Chumash medicine man and the tribe invites the public, too. The ceremony occurs on Summer Solstice. The tribal event organizers encourage guests to bring sage, tobacco, copal (natural tree resin), sweet grass, your hearts, your prayers, and your positive thoughts for your offering into our Sacred Circle.

[jaffa1949]

Poetic pictures and anthromorphic too, the last picture has a shadow horse in the right group of trees!

[billie_morini]

Poetic pictures and anthromorphic too, the last picture has a shadow horse in the right group of trees!

Jaffa gets it! This land is sacred.