Birds line up near the water’s edge to watch the sunrise on the beach. So do a few people although not in such nice lines. Workers collect garbage from trash containers. Others drive tractors smoothing the sand roughed from yesterday’s play. Unintentionally they make raked Japanese Zen gardens, but without the stones. They are so perfect they need delicate footsteps. So much order also wants to be beautiful.
BIRDS OBSERVE THE SUN
ROUGH WAVES SOOTH THE WINTER SHORE
WALK THROUGH FRESH RAKED SAND
Linked to dVerse Haibun Monday. Victoria C. Slotto is hosting with the theme Wabi-Sabi, the art of imperfection.
Photos: “Sunrise Watching” above and the collage “Bird Tracks on the Beach” below both by the author. These are linked to K’lee and Dale’s Cosmic Photo Challenge with the theme “Birds and Bees”.
Come join us with your photos and haibun!
Excellent twist. These are artworks in their own right.
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Thank you, Dale! I am glad you liked the photos and the bird tracks.
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That’s so beautiful! Love these photos and the thoughts you shared. Love the idea that birds also watch the sunrise like we do 🙂
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They do seem to enjoy it. I was surprised when I first saw them watching the sunrise. Thank you, Leila!
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Welcome! 😊
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I love the idea of those beach tractors making Japanese Zen gardens in their wake!
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They are raked very neatly until the people get on the beach. Thanks, Lillian!
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I love the footprints in the raked sand. A great haibun Frank. The raked sand, the birds watching the sunset, the workers removing the garbage….all of it.
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Thank you, Toni! Early mornings on these beaches are quiet and peaceful but busy with preparations for the coming day.
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What good photos, Frank!
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Thanks, Jane! I’m glad you liked them. The birds make beautiful tracks in the raked sand likely without realizing it.
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And they break up the machine-made pattern. Like notes of music on a stave.
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Good point about those notes of music. Without them they are perfect lines. With them they are so much more.
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Musical sea gulls 🙂
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Gorgeous Frank, I love the waves soothing the shore and the walk through raked sand.
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Thank you, Andrea! Perhaps it is also the shore that calms down the rough waves.
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Both the photos and the Haibun/Haiku really bring home the idea of Wabi-Sabi. These is such a stunning beauty in the shoreline and the transitions it goes through.
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Thank you, Victoria! Thanks for the prompt. The workers do try to make the beach clean and nice in the morning. The birds and people come later to make it beautiful.
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Love the photos and haibun Frank ~ There is something serene about the birds lining up to watch the sunrise ~
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It amazes me when they do that. They are all looking out to the water and sunrise. Thank you, Grace!
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Wonderful photographs Frank and a beautiful haibun. I love those delicate footsteps in the raked sand :o)
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Thank you, Xenia! I usually watch the sunrise with the birds and the few other people who get up early when we are near a beach. It is the best time to be there in my view. Sunsets would be also nice.
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A wonderful “take” on wabi-sabi, Frank. It conjured my memories of beaches made pristine at the beginning of each day. I haven’t been to a beach in a long, long time. Thank you for taking me there!
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Thank you, Bev! It is an early morning beach scene, one of the best times to be on a beach from my perspective.
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Perfect Frank. It all blends so well. I love the main photo. The depth is astounding, and there are 3 distinct colour palettes.
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Thank you, Peter! That ocean scene is divided into three horizontal areas distinguished by color palettes.
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I love all things bird. Lovely piece.
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I am glad you liked it!
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Those footprints ARE a big improvement. How great that you see the sand combed by the cleaners as a zen garden. I wonder if the cleaners have made that observation, too.
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I don’t think it is an original observation, but I have not checked if someone else thought of this or not. Many probably did. The footprints do make it special, perhaps like the rocks in a real Zen garden. Thank you!
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I love the tracks of shore birds — yours are in a zen-garden for sure. I’m more used to the trails running in and out of the tidal pull.
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I prefer trails to beaches since I can’t swim. In the morning, it is nice to watch the Sun and it is also cooler then. Thank you, Lorraine!
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The sand does appear a zen-garden. Intricate markings of bird feet reminds me of ancient writing. I love how the birds all look in the same direction. This is something I have noticed with awe. Gorgeous writing and photos, Frank.
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Thank you, Sara! It is amazing how these birds welcome the day. The markings do look like ancient writing.
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The birds did a great job on their zen garden. I like their work best, and your Haibun described the scene beautifully.
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They make that Zen garden perfect with their mindful or mindless wanderings. (I think they have minds.) Thanks, Walter!
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I guess that’s why they call them bird brains
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🙂
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Well captured moment
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Thank you! I’m glad you liked it!
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What a beautiful scene you’ve captured both in your words and photo.
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Thank you, Lynn! It is amazing the simple things one can find on a beach.
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Breathtakingly beautiful pictures! And the interpretation enhances the beauty!
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Thank you, Reena! I am glad you like the pictures and the haibun.
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Your haibun in small and perfect, Frank, with beautiful photos to complements the prose and the haiku. I love the ‘Japanese Zen gardens, but without the stones… so perfect they need delicate footsteps’.
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The makes of the rakes and tractor tires need a bird’s touch to make this orderliness beautiful. Thank you, Kim!
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Very nice, Frank! I like the reference to a Japanese rock garden. We have a fantastic one here in San Francisco.
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There is a nice one at the Chicago Botanic Garden. A beach is larger and you can walk on it. Thanks, K’lee! And thanks to you and Dale for the photo prompt this Monday.
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Wish I could see it one day! Thanks again, Frank, for joining us!
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Rough waves soothe the Winter shore.. I always saw the shore being brought to order by those waves.. A turmoil bringing peace.. Is that a revolution or plain fact of life?
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It is strange. Those waves don’t seem peaceful but they need to be stronger than the shore to smooth it, and perhaps even sooth it. Thank you!
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And thy are beautiful Frank,just like your post 🙂
Thank you
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Thank you, Ben! I am glad you enjoyed this!
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Spontaneous perfection onto unintended creation. If that’s wabi sabi I’m sold!
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Good way of putting it: spontaneous and unintended. The byproduct of something perhaps even more beautiful. And being able to see it at all is a kind of beauty. Thank you, Petru!
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Nice combination of man and nature here Frank.
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Thank you, Paul! Both man and nature made that beach scene.
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I love the pictures of the tracks left by the birds. Traces of yesterday.
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Thank you, Annell! Sometimes the tracks are very nice like finding a beautiful shell or seeing an exceptional sunrise.
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Those tracks are like a strange calligraphy.
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Yes, they seem that way to me as well. The birds subjectively walked along the beach and this is the “text” they left behind. Thank you!
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I especially like ‘So much order also wants to be beautiful’
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Order makes itself available for beauty to happen to it and we make ourselves available to see it. Thank you, Janice!
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Loved this post! The main picture reminds me of an oil painting and than there is the delicate pattern contrasting the birds footprints and the marks of the wheels of the tractor.
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I am glad you liked this, Danik! Those birds improved all that raking which looks quite nice by itself. I am amazed that they line up so nicely in the morning and face the sun. I wonder if this has been studied by anyone? I might try to find out.
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Interesting view of millions of years of change, Fred. Thanks!
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I love this post and the photos. All those birds and those footprints….Absolutely wonderful, makes me want to walk on your beach and mess up the sand with my own feet.
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Thanks, Alison! I also have pictures of my footprints and dogs’ prints messing up those nice lines.
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These photos are lovely, Frank. Beautiful words to go with it.
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Thanks, Robbie! When we are at the beach, mornings and evenings are my favorite times to be there walking along the shore.
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Birds are fascinating fellows, although real small quite often travelling around the world each season. If they could only tell stories!
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I think they communicate with each other. Crows especially seem to communicate, but I think the others do as well. I would like to know their perspectives of us. Thank you!
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There was once a great tite coming each winter in the early morning, sitting on the roses of our balcony and always interestedly looking into our appartment to see what we are doing like saying “Good morning, how do you do?”
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Some of them I am sure are curious about us. Walking downtown Chicago I saw these tiny birds almost within touching distance. I got a few photographs. Some of them were looking for food. Others were just there interacting with the people like they were also walking the street enjoying their day.
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Very interesting read indeed.
Give mine a wee look i would love some feedback maybe 🙂
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Thank you, Gerard! I’ll take a look.
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vowww.amazing photos..
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Thank you!
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