Showing posts with label Shimogamo shrine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shimogamo shrine. Show all posts

Thursday, 28 February 2008

Holy, beautiful, cold winter!


(Originally posted with photo(s) at http://dlamini-dlamini.blogspot.com/)
And the the snow did fall, and we ventured out to see the cold beauty.
Shimogamo shrine looked like never before, a majestic bird preparing to take flight.
Her roofs, like wings no longer the usual dark brown of a tree bark,
but gleaming white in the occasional winter sun.

For posterity, on the same day I made this post, I recorded a question on facebook:
"Ndumiso would like to know if we really are here, or if the universe is one big facebook - content generated by some sort of consciousness...?"