matsu kaze no / ochiba ka mizu no / oto suzushi (Matsuo Basho)
are needles falling / in the pine wind? / the water’s cool sound. (© David Landis Barnhill)
are needles falling / as the wind blows through the pines? / cool sound of water (© Tim Chilcott)
great inspiration … each tree could be beautiful a bonsai but all of them perished in the fight with nature …
