The Bamboo Gate at Hakone

This is the bamboo gate at Hakone Gardens in Saratoga, California, 

the day we had our early summer ginko there on June 10, 2006.

It was a beautiful day, and we shared some fine haiku.

in the rapid flutter

of another language

the words "ham sandwich"

      

June Hopper Hymas

This is our list of summer kigo from that day, 

still in my computer files.:Summer Kigo  

(Hymas and Bendixen worked on these)

zinnia

yucca

June

early summer

short night

green bamboo

green plum

scented breeze

wild iris, Japanese iris

heat, hot, smoldering

summer sky

deep tree shade

waterfall

mosquito

summer butterfly

toad

weeding

sundress

leaf quivers (check)

near the garden gate

Japanese-American's greeting

"Haiku? Oh, that seven stuff"

   

June Hopper Hymas