Would You Like to Buy a Lemonade?

"Lemonade! Lemonade!" Skarma called out at one entrance to the beach.

It was only fifty cents. How could you refuse?

Skarma sold out quickly.

A couple watches as the tide comes in.

Searching for Spirits in Wompatuck

With an ancient name like Wompatuck, there was bound to be . . . something there.

photos by Dawa

Furu ike ya
kawazu tobikomu
mizu no oto

Matsuo Basho


A Frog (after Basho)

Only the memory
of frogs, a pond, and jumping.

- D.N.

In The Tree

Skarma inspects the tree. May 2005

Down from the tree.

Damcho is Bemused

The Path Home

Reading

Leda in the Box

There's a Little White Duck

swimming in the water, a little white duck doin' what he outta.

The Mallard is an ancestor of the common white domestic duck. So where did this duck come from, the only white duck I've seen among the city Mallards?

Another day, another tree.