Too curious flower

watching us pass, met death...

Our hungry donkey

~Basho

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Nature notes: Desert Marigold Baileya multiradiata / Tucson, AZ / February 28, 2012

There is nothing you can see that is not a flower;
there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.
~Basho

Crow on a bare branch

Kare eda ni
Karasu no tomari keri,
Aki no kure.

A branch shorn of leaves,
A crow perching on it--
This autumnal eve.

~haiku by Basho from Zen and Japanese Culture, D.T. Suzuki