VesperSparrow - Chicago is one of my favorite cities just for that reason! I meant to compliment you on your wonderful images and for some reason the multi-quoting feature gets wiggy on me when working on Ipad.
Scarf of the Day (Themes on page 1)
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VesperSparrow - Chicago is one of my favorite cities just for that reason! I meant to compliment you on your wonderful images and for some reason the multi-quoting feature gets wiggy on me when working on Ipad.
Thank you Melora, winter white is a perfect color all through the year!
Thank you VesperSparrow, so glad you liked it.
I'm spending the weekend at a haiku conference; wearing a different one of my Japanese-themed scarves every day. (I have three; fortunately, the conference only lasts 3 days!)
In keeping with our autumn theme, here is an autumn-toned Ikebana arrangement that one of the group's members brought to the conference.
And a haiku I wrote today (the assignment was to write a haiku about birds):
crows shriek blue murder
within cypress tree branches
a hawk unruffled
What fun! Have you been to Hermes to pick out a scarf yet? You will have to write a haiku about Hermes, LOL!
Thank you, Bova! I find it relaxing to write haiku... but it is more difficult than it looks! You have to fit two "resonating" images into only three lines. I have only been doing it for five years. I am very much a beginner!
are you saying that you like mon-key more that tah-key?
(Mon means my, ta means your)
(bad pun... pretend I'm not even here)
Thank you for sharing the picture and the haiku
You know, the thread is call Scarf of the day, not Scarf of the theme. Just saying....
I have the mother of pearl one, and it's pretty useful too
I also have some in plastic, that were actually belt buckles, and they're nice as their color blend in with the matching scarf.
Ooh... a French pun! I am not even in your league! When I was a teenager I was a terrible (well, actually I was pretty good!) "punster." And my mother used to tell me that if I made puns, nobody would marry me. Well, she was very wrong about that!
Scarf of the Day... I'll remember that! I thought our "scarf of the day" had to be about the theme, but I guess I was wrong!
I have been looking at the mother of pearl ones! But now she has an entire lacquered line. Have you seen them? They are very beautiful, and I am in trouble.
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You express the silence and the hawk with a resolute attitude through your haiku?
I ask you because I am trying to understand the meaning of your haiku, using Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English....
By the way, I own 70cm vimtage silk which has the border in cypress green and the tropical birds as central motifs, which look like the bird of paradise in the Ikebana in your pic, not the hawk.
I would say you understand what I was trying to capture in my haiku: the contrast of the noisy crows with the silent hawk.
But there is also another level! In English, when you are talking about a "group" of crows, you call it a "murder" of crows (I do not know why... it is a very old expression). And that is why I used the expression "scream blue murder" which simply means that they are making their "caw" noise very loudly, but it has a double meaning!
And when I talk about the hawk being "unruffled," it means that he is quiet, and not upset, and ignoring the noisy crows, but also that his feathers are not ruffled up. When hawks get upset, their feathers stand up away from their body. So, again, the word "unruffled" has two meanings!
I am a bird watcher, and this bird behavior, of many crows finding a hawk or an owl in a tree, and flying close by, making a lot of noise, is called "mobbing," and is very common behavior. When I am out bird watching, if I see twenty crows going crazy around a tree, for no reason, I always think to myself, "Perhaps there is a hawk or an owl in that tree!"
Oh, my goodness, lanit... what an amazing pairing of bag and scarf! Those colors are simply stunning. And may I just say, I am in love with your iris Picotin?
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