Simply trust,
Simply trust!
Cherry blossoms in bloom
Japanese haiku poet Kobayashi Issa
It’s Japanese practice (as I understand it) to display each seasonal decoration, like this cherry blossom bonsai, a little in advance of the actual season. Perhaps to encourage the season? Or to reassure us that it will definitely come?
At any rate, it’s in that spirit that this morning I put out my cherry blossom bonsai, in the teeth of the latest weather bureau prediction for a substantial snowstorm the day after tomorrow.
I look at it this way: Issa’s haiku emboldens us to trust, simply trust! that spring really will arrive. Eventually. But just in case, here’s another haiku I found on the Internet. It’s a Western haiku, by someone named Shellie, and where Issa’s haiku is hopeful, this one is realistic:
In Japan they say,
Cherry blossoms mean it’s spring
But it’s not spring here.
You said it, Shellie!
Touch2Touch 
Hope your Cherry Blossoms bring on the Spring…………we are ready for some blossoms and warm evenings!
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Has it been cold where you are TOO???????
And did you get over the flu, or whatever indisposition that was? I hope so! Because sooner or later, we shall be warm again!!!!
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In New Zealand, it’s autumn (you’d call it fall), and we’re currently enjoying a sequence of sunny days to shame what has been a somewhat lacklustre (yes, that’s how we spell it) summer. Your cherry blossom bonsai is inspiring, nevertheless. Be well … be warm.
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However we spell it, our winter, like your summer, was— lacklustre/luster. Or worse. Hmm. Worse.
I very much appreciate your warm wishes, Stefan! And return mine, in case they’ll be useful as your winter approaches.
(Autumn/fall is probably my favorite time of year, so enjoy!)
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Neither is it here. Brrrr…
But don’t believe those meteorologists. I wish I was allowed to make as many mistakes and not get my butt fired. Excuse my French!
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Maybe they need disclaimers, you know, like “suggested retail price” —
This is tomorrow’s “suggested weather”.
Ya think? 😉
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Between them and sports figures I say pay for performance!
I’m so mean. 😉
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But really really cute to look at —
(Makes up for mean, which I don’t believe you are anyway 😉
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Too kind. Thanks 🙂
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Yes, we’ll brace for the last [?] snowstorm on Wednesday/Thursday … tomorrow; only flurries!
What a gorgeous picture!!!
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I can look at the picture — or the bonsai —
instead of out the window!!!!
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It’s a snow day! All white!
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Down here there’s an unfamiliar large yellow object in the sky, and I actually had to take off an extra sweater!!!
I wish the same for you —
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The weatherman said scattered flurries for today — there’s been a total whiteout all day, getting worse now. Snow … freezing fog, you name it 🙂 McDuff just went into hiding — he does that when there’s a change in the air pressure..
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I think maybe our approaching storm has headed northward instead and is venting on you guys — We’ve got sun and a forecast (at the moment) of rain tomorrow, not snow. We shall see.
I’m with McDuff, changes in air pressure affect me horribly also.
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What a beautiful tree!
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Something to lift our spirits after the longest winter (actually, not over yet).
You’re heading into your winter — but I don’t think it will involve snow, will it?????
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No snow by the coast but three hours away in the Amatole Mountains it snows every winter. The way the weather is changing around here, I wouldn’t be surprised if it does snow one of these winters! I am a fair weather person!
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Oh yes, me too! A fair weather person!
Too bad there’s so little opportunity to experience it around here these days — What a winter we’ve had.
I wish you continued fair skies and lots of sunshine!
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That’s one gorgeous bonsai to bring in anticipatory hope. Whispers of autumn creep in here, love it when there’s turn in the seasons, specially on the cusp. Hope your spring isn’t too delayed in arriving.
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Oh, I hope i hope i hope i hope —
Usually we call spring “mud season” around here, but this year we’ll even welcome that!
Early autumn is wonderful, enjoy yours!
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Glad to know that you like cherry blossoms, bonsai and haiku. 🙂 I also like Japanese each season.
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I am especially happy to put out the cherry blossom bonsai yesterday. The winter was too long!
Doomo arigato for the visit, cocomino!
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Wow! That tree is stunning! ~amy
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Thank you, Amy. Your visit and comment are much appreciated.
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Shelly had a dry sense of humor. So does Mother Nature I think. (Love the photo!)
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Shellie, dry sense of humor, yes.
Mother Nature? Maybe. But in my opinion, not as funny as she thinks!
😦
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The Japanese Haiku is beautiful, as is the bonsai. But I do prefer Shellie’s for its dose of reality 🙂 I think having such distinct seasons makes one appreciate them more – the arrival of spring most of all – a pleasure denied us tropical creatures. We just have “Hot, Hotter & Hell’ to borrow my husband’s description of weather in Chennai! Hope winter is well and truly out the door by now Judith 🙂
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Thanks very much for the visit and the “cold comfort” wishes, Madhu. Alas, the next snowstorm is predicted for Tuesday night into Wednesday.
The first day of spring here was Thursday, March 20th. If I knew Mother Nature’s email, I would REMIND her.
So Hot, Hotter & Hell has a different ring for us at the moment!
It’s true, though, we can always just put on an extra sweater. What do you have to do to stay cool(er)?
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Wear minimal clothing and hide in darkened, air conditioned rooms during the worst part of the day while consuming gallons of fluids. And shower several times a day of course!
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Which might or might not work?
I still remember as a child visiting Houston Texas in the summer. Hottest, most humid place I’d ever been in. The memory is of lying across a bed in a darkened room (it was before air conditioning) dripping with sweat and more miserable than I ever remembered being in my young life.
I wonder how I would manage in Chennai? Of course these days there is air conditioning, and that certainly makes a difference.
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