from the

SONG OF RYOKAN
III

True, all seasons have moonlit nights,
but here's the best night to see the moon.
the hills never so aloft, the streams never so clear,
in the infinite blue of autumn sky flies a disk of light,
neither light nor gloom is graced with a life of its own.
the moon and the earth are one, and myself one with them.

Going further into them
and further into them still
more green mountains

-santoka teneda-

Brazos cliffs near our cabin

The sunlight at its most intense 

one leaf falls

-santoka teneda-

                                          

sunset on the cliffs

Cold 
clouds
hurry

-santoka teneda