Asakiyume mita - green and water, bright and dark

From: lizziebelle Date: April 25th, 2008 07:09 pm (UTC) (Link)

Oh how lovely! I don't think I've ever seen a peach blossom.

I love the idea of an oracular stick. :)

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From: asakiyume Date: April 25th, 2008 08:07 pm (UTC) (Link)

There must be peach trees hiding around near where you live--Ludlow has a peach festival each spring! I like them too :-)

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From: lizziebelle Date: April 25th, 2008 08:09 pm (UTC) (Link)

Oh right! Ludlow isn't actually very close to me, but we always do a story on the Peach Festival in the paper. :)

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From: asakiyume Date: April 25th, 2008 08:13 pm (UTC) (Link)

My sense of geography is so bad... I get confused about what's close to what--and then on top of that, I think I was misremembering where you are...

One of the most fun things I did one year was pick peaches at Atkins Farm (the way you'd pick apples, only it was peaches). They don't seem to do it much anymore, though; I think maybe the trees are fragile or the fruit is, or something.

From my one little peach tree, I have enough peaches to make peach ice cream, peach pies, and ... to eat lots of fresh peaches.

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From: sovay Date: April 25th, 2008 07:15 pm (UTC) (Link)

Is there a culture anywhere that reads these signs and tells fortunes? I see here a princess and a dragon, a wise mouse and a coastline.

Beautiful.

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From: asakiyume Date: April 25th, 2008 08:09 pm (UTC) (Link)

Yes, and begging to be read. If you click through, you can see what I thought looked like what (if you can't guess already).

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From: sovay Date: April 25th, 2008 08:11 pm (UTC) (Link)

If you click through, you can see what I thought looked like what (if you can't guess already).

I looked; I can see your shapes.

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From: asakiyume Date: April 25th, 2008 08:14 pm (UTC) (Link)

Do you see any others? merexcursion found a deer.

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From: beast_666 Date: April 25th, 2008 07:49 pm (UTC) (Link)

I always enjoy your posts so much! Poetry in pictures and words. And the oracular stick is incredibly beautiul.. I'm a sucker for patterns and that one just about gave me the visual equivalent of an orgasm..
Thanks :)

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From: asakiyume Date: April 25th, 2008 08:10 pm (UTC) (Link)

Thank you--Yes, I'm a sucker for patterns too, and there are patterns everywhere.

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From: skygoodwill Date: April 25th, 2008 08:13 pm (UTC) (Link)

k, gorgeous post.

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From: asakiyume Date: April 25th, 2008 08:15 pm (UTC) (Link)

So glad to share it with you!

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From: dark_phoenix54 Date: April 25th, 2008 09:46 pm (UTC) (Link)

I love the stick! I think it's a map, and it changes as you walk.

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From: asakiyume Date: April 25th, 2008 10:29 pm (UTC) (Link)

I like that idea!

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From: myhappythoughts Date: April 25th, 2008 10:48 pm (UTC) (Link)

I've never heard of or seen an oracular stick before. It looks really interesting.

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From: asakiyume Date: April 25th, 2008 10:56 pm (UTC) (Link)

I just made it up--anything can be oracular, in the sense of being used to tell something about the world and the future--like how people used to read entrails, or would see how bones cracked when put in a fire, or how some people still read tea leaves. This stick has had paths carved into it by insects, and it has made such an interesting design, it seems like you'd be able to tell the future from it--or seek the answers to questions. That's what I wonder... is there, or was there ever, some place where people do look at sticks like this to read the future?

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From: aesiron Date: April 25th, 2008 11:15 pm (UTC) (Link)

I want that stick.

Personally, I see two great beasts eyeing each other across a chasm with a lone mountain between them in the background.

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From: asakiyume Date: April 25th, 2008 11:19 pm (UTC) (Link)

I can see that, too, now that you mention it.

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From: jmeadows Date: April 26th, 2008 12:22 am (UTC) (Link)

Wow, that is really neat! I love the carvings on the stick. The peach blossom is just lovely, and the light in the first two...

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From: asakiyume Date: April 26th, 2008 02:21 am (UTC) (Link)

I think the stick is saying that there's adventure ahead.

Glad you liked the photos :-)

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From: deponti Date: April 26th, 2008 01:10 am (UTC) (Link)

I do love your posts and thoughts; they don't have to lead anywhere, they are there and they are so interesting. Love your theory about light and time...that is so intuitively true for me. (Did you see my post about my nails being calendars....a mark on a nail would slowly grow out, and it would let me know how long had elapsed?)

And I like Peter,Paul and Mary...Puff the Magic Dragon....

Lovely pictures,too. You have a very interesting mind.

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From: asakiyume Date: April 26th, 2008 02:18 am (UTC) (Link)

I didn't see your post about your nails being calendars, but I know what you mean! I've done the same thing, watched a mark travel up my nail. So many ways to notice time passing....

I like your new icon, by the way--what a powerful bird.

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From: mcblm921 Date: April 26th, 2008 01:27 am (UTC) (Link)

Gorgeous photos, and your gnomic words only add to the beauty.

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From: asakiyume Date: April 26th, 2008 02:18 am (UTC) (Link)

"gnomic" is a great word! Thank you.

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From: alexfiles Date: April 26th, 2008 01:51 am (UTC) (Link)

My mother has an oracular pig; we should get her to look at the oracular stick :-)

Your posts are always a delight. I love to think of insects boring prophetic inscriptions at which we humans may only guess.

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From: asakiyume Date: April 26th, 2008 02:03 am (UTC) Oracular pig (Link)

Are you the daughter of Taran and Eilonwy then?! Amazing :-)

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From: alexfiles Date: April 26th, 2008 02:15 am (UTC) Re: Oracular pig (Link)

LOL! No, but my father was an elf friend (alvin = aelfwine = elf friend), and kobolds have visited our home.

My mother adores pigs, and was born in the year of the pig; she thought Hen Wen the most charming concept ever.

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From: alexfiles Date: April 26th, 2008 02:18 am (UTC) Re: Oracular pig (Link)

I love that it was a given to me you knew the Prydain books. I didn't even consider you might not. How cool is that?

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From: asakiyume Date: April 26th, 2008 02:19 am (UTC) Re: Oracular pig (Link)

I feel the same way--I just knew :-)

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From: tltrent Date: April 26th, 2008 02:04 am (UTC) (Link)

Lovely--I love seeing all your exploratory posts. :)

Have you ever seen Chinese oracle bones? The oracular stick reminds me of them a lot.

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From: asakiyume Date: April 26th, 2008 02:20 am (UTC) oracle bones (Link)

I have heard of them and how they work, but haven't actually seen them--I should do an image search and have a look. I was kind of thinking of them too, when I saw this stick.

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From: shortiyergirl Date: April 26th, 2008 03:00 am (UTC) (Link)

I think the oracular stick could be the beginning of a great story... :)
what are you waiting for? And the sister blossoms could fit right in.

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From: asakiyume Date: April 26th, 2008 11:28 am (UTC) (Link)

I shall have to work it in to one :-)

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From: seajules Date: April 26th, 2008 03:35 am (UTC) (Link)

::basks in this post::

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From: asakiyume Date: April 26th, 2008 11:28 am (UTC) (Link)

:-)

I would like to go to the place your icon shows...

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From: seajules Date: May 1st, 2008 05:23 am (UTC) (Link)

I forget where it is. I pulled the image off of Getty, if I remember right. I adore graceful architecture.

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From: cheapriboflavin Date: April 26th, 2008 08:00 am (UTC) (Link)

Very pretty. Now I want to build a garden on my back porch.

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From: asakiyume Date: April 26th, 2008 11:16 am (UTC) (Link)

take pictures if you do...

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From: suzan_s Date: April 26th, 2008 12:29 pm (UTC) (Link)

Pics are great and I love the oracular stick....it looks carved! Do insects get up in there, crawl around and leave markings?

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From: asakiyume Date: April 27th, 2008 05:29 pm (UTC) (Link)

Yes, that's it exactly--they nibble trails. I think. Actually, the truth is that i know it's insects, but I don't know exactly how they do it.

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From: salyey_marya Date: April 26th, 2008 04:32 pm (UTC) (Link)

the sunny swamp is lovely! i also have a stick like that...
this is such a warming and sunny post. thank you :)

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From: asakiyume Date: April 27th, 2008 05:29 pm (UTC) (Link)

You're welcome--enjoy the sun.

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From: wicapis Date: April 26th, 2008 10:46 pm (UTC) (Link)

awesome find, that stick!

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From: asakiyume Date: April 27th, 2008 05:30 pm (UTC) (Link)

So many interesting things out on a walk!

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From: wicapis Date: April 26th, 2008 10:48 pm (UTC) (Link)

oops and the gift of peach and cherry from your daughter is far more precious than the ones send by FTD! lol

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From: asakiyume Date: April 27th, 2008 05:30 pm (UTC) (Link)

Yes, I think so too :-)

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From: hollailama Date: April 27th, 2008 02:35 am (UTC) (Link)

Wow, that stick is amazing. Did *nature* make those carvings? I'm in awe. And those blossoms are beautiful. Spring is here!

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From: asakiyume Date: April 27th, 2008 05:28 pm (UTC) (Link)

Nature in the form of little beetles--amazing, huh.

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