Day 5 — Rainy Day

I wake to the gentle popping sound of the rain dripping from the gutter and hitting the rain spot beneath my window. No light shines…

Day 56 Orion — Haibun Journey View From My Window

Day 45 Winter Sun — Haibun Journey View From My Window

From my window the winter sun is playing hide and seek amongst the grey and white clouds. The sky is a beautiful blue. The bright orb’s color is what gives notice that it is not a summer sun. It has look of a cold winter sun despite…

Day 6 — One Last Dance

Soft light filters in through the blinds. I raise them to greet the day. In one direction the sky is a beautiful blue with wisps of white clouds, in the other it is a cold steel grey. I gaze at the green pine and the maple still dressed in a golden cloak quivering with wonder as the wind…

Day 27 Gratefulness — Haibun Journey View from my Window

Outside my window I am surprised to see the trees look like someone dusted cookies with powdered sugar. Thinking of surprises I smile, it surprised me to find my husband laughing to himself at dinner the other night. He is always so…

Day 25 Wind Spirits - Haibun Journey View from my Window

As I watch out my window, hundreds of brown leaves flee across the lawn before the wind. Mischief is in the air today. The electricity flickers on and off, as I watch the wind force the trees to dance. A large blue tarp goes…

Day 35: Green Leaf: Haibun Journey View From My Window

The light from the window is bright this morning. I look out at a calm grey sky. I see there are still seed pods clinging to the mimosa tree. In the small maple a long abandon nest, and on the ground a strange green leaf with two large…

Day 23 Rain: Haibun Journey — View from my Window

A quiet rain falls outside my window. On the driveway are rainbow swirled puddles from my oil leak, or perhaps they are from your leaking brake fluid. It seems everything leaks today. The leaking gutter plays a pretty little drum beat on the…

Day 16 Grateful: Haibun Journey — View from my Window

The afternoon sky is a slate blue, the last working solar light flickers in the garden. I search the sky for signs of the impending snowstorm which I am in doubt of. Fluffed starlings decorate the naked tree boughs and a crow sits below…

Day 11 Sparkling Light Haibun Journey — View From My Window

The light outside my window, sparkles on the pine-tree as if glistening with tinsel. The remaining leaves backlit. It promises to be a beautiful day, inviting one to come out and commune with nature. Yet, it is deceptive…