With kado ottawa Aug 05
09/28/2005 04:50 p.m.

Photo Credit: Grant Savage, Ottawa, Ontario Aug '05

For my library here, I have reduced this Aug. 27 05 shot of me taken at a lovely meeting in Carleton Place, Ottawa, of our Ottawa area kado society, As well as a fine photographer (nature images being one of his specialities), renowned haikuist, tanka and free verse poet, Grant Savage is a highly-respected friend of mine and fellow member of kado and Haiku and Tanka Canada organizations). He kindly passed on the photo via another member, Claudia. So far I haven't been able to make it the acceptable limit for my library. It's more up to date than the one I'd had up 'til today, on there. Of course I could cheat and keep pretending I look like I did five or six years ago, in that shot I was fortunate to be given, taken by Don Loper, another dear friend, but I figure it's time to move on. I'll keep it at hand and using it for other purposes, and always like to have it as a moment of a very happy and exciting period of my life, and one of great growth and learning at Sasquatch.

I feel (I fear) a cold coming on, not a good thing since I'm so looking forward to Italian Conversation's first class tonight. So I've taking extra vitamins and cod liver oil, and am going to take a nap now. PS I hope to finish soon writing a poem about that lovely afternoon with kado, under the very windblowing butternut tree. Is windblowing a word? I don't want windblown, as the action was very much prevalent as we sat there, some of us peeking around the branches and leaves to see each other, and shouting our haiku in our outdoor circle, as the wind was so loud. Not the usual gentle feel of haiku sharing, the quietness, but very fun and memorable.