Thank you for the beautiful post.
I have already had some snowflakes here.
They are little intricate sculptures of ice,
and each and everyone has its own little design.
Love,
yoko
~~~~~~
ten mo chi mo
mashi tada yuki no
furishikiru
No sky and no ground
only the snowflakes which
fall without ceasing.
-Hashin (1864-?)
(The translation is based on those in An Introduction to Haiku by Harold. G. Henderson, Doubleday, 1958)
Painting is in the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria