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Kazuko M.
@estherhawdon.bsky.social
130 followers 73 following 160 posts
I teach English at University. I love reading books, listening to music and watching films. My favorite writers are Soseki Natsume, Charlotte Bronte, Kazuo Ishiguro, Wilkie Collins etc.
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Kazuko M. @estherhawdon.bsky.social · 2d
beautiful
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Catherine Eaton @sparrowpost.bsky.social · 2d
My favorite maple has begun to turn at last. It's the latest I've ever seen this happen.
Crown of a maple beginning to turn deep red at the center top.
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Kazuko M. @estherhawdon.bsky.social · 2d
"Upon the maple leaves
The dew shines red,
But on the lotus blossom
It has the pale transparence of tears." Amy Lowell
(images: Hoitsu Sakai / Koson Ohara)
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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 3d
Today was cold, with a little snow. On this Thanksgiving weekend I am grateful for the seasonal burst of colour—it will be gone too soon.
Trail leading down amid fir trees and aspen trees turning yellow. Aspen with leaves turning yellow and light orange with red foliage in the foreground, green in the background. Late afternoon light. Red foliage backlit with blurred background of gold and green.
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Kazuko M. @estherhawdon.bsky.social · 4d
"Going to ruin,
bit by bit:
my autumn." Santoka

(image: Shotei Takahashi)
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Kazuko M. @estherhawdon.bsky.social · 6d
bamboo grove
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Kazuko M. @estherhawdon.bsky.social · 8d
"moon-viewing --
after coming home
nothing to say" Chiyo-ni
(image: Shufu Miyamoto)
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Dave Borthwick @borthwickdave.bsky.social · 8d
& you find fullmoon eventually - cowl of cloud streaming off - slanting fast into dark
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farsouthproject @farsouthproject.bsky.social · 8d
Buona notte... sogni d'oro...
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Kazuko M. @estherhawdon.bsky.social · 9d
"In this dream world
we doze and talk of dreams -
dream, dream on,
as much as you wish" Ryokan

[image: Shoen Uemura]
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Emma Chaplin🔮🖤🦇Lewes Nibbler @emmachaplin.bsky.social · 9d
'Cake' by Wayne Thibaud
Painting of cakes
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Kazuko M. @estherhawdon.bsky.social · 9d
"The moon in the water;
Broken and broken again,
Still it is there" Choshu (trans. R.H.Blyth)

(moonlit night, Hasui Kawase)
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Laetitia • My Incredible France! 🇫🇷 by MSB.iO @myincrediblefrance.bsky.social · 10d
The trilogy ends here, for now; little flowers from a hidden France, blooming for young families, cultured hearts, and creative souls who take time to feel. 🌸✨

Welcome to France. Welcome home. 🇫🇷

📷 Vincent Sébart
Rustic countryside building in France, ideal for heritage preservation and green real estate.
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Laetitia • My Incredible France! 🇫🇷 by MSB.iO @myincrediblefrance.bsky.social · 10d
Somewhere in France 🇫🇷 ... Mist over water. Whispers over stone. France still dreaming ...✨

#France
#SlowLiving
#WanderQuietly

📷 Vincent Sébart
Picturesque village view in France, highlighting slow lifestyle and heritage property opportunities.
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Dave Borthwick @borthwickdave.bsky.social · 10d
& the river smells of the hills this early-autumn sunday time a shift is building this acorn mast year scattered where stormfloods flattened a bed dipper in shallow rapids ducks & dives with confidence
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Kazuko M. @estherhawdon.bsky.social · 11d
"hazy moon --
bumping into
a small pine" Chiyo-ni
(image: Kaii Higashiyama)
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Catherine Eaton @sparrowpost.bsky.social · 12d
It was hard to choose just one bag of apples but it came down to Crimson Crisp. And now I can't stop eating them.
Paper bags with bright handles full of red and yellow hued apples at the orchard shop
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Kazuko M. @estherhawdon.bsky.social · 12d
"among thousands
of singing insects, one
singing out of tune" Takajo Mitsuhashi

(image: Koson Ohara)
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Kazuko M. @estherhawdon.bsky.social · 15d
"This darkening autumn:
my neighbor,
how does he continue?"
Basho Matsuo (trans. Michael R. Burch)

(images: Koitsu Ishiwata)
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Emma Chaplin🔮🖤🦇Lewes Nibbler @emmachaplin.bsky.social · 16d
Mist over the downs
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Catherine Eaton @sparrowpost.bsky.social · 16d
A little honeybee hard at work among the purple-stemmed asters before the sun sets
A honey bee busily crawling through little purple flowers
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Kazuko M. @estherhawdon.bsky.social · 16d
"Autumn weighs upon me
but tomorrow will come
and I will miss tonight." Buson Yosa

(image: autumn evening, Shotei Takahashi )
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Angela Hirons @foxglove1977.bsky.social · 17d
Like a plastic tile mosaic at the centre. Lantana camara. #minutiae
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Kazuko M. @estherhawdon.bsky.social · 18d
"I'll write to you. A super-long letter, like in an old-fashioned novel." Haruki Murakami
(autumn evening, Yumeji)
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Kazuko M. @estherhawdon.bsky.social · 19d
"two young deer
side by side...
a duet" Issa Kobayashi
(image: Kanzan Shimomura)
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Kazuko M. @estherhawdon.bsky.social · 19d
"This autumn --
Why am I growing old?
bird disappearing among clouds."
― Basho Matsuo (tr. Robert Hass)
(images: Shiro Kasamatsu / Koson Ohara)
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