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On a walk: Winter Lakescapes

Uncovered Paths

On a lonely and bleak morning
Below overcast skies, I come to rest on a fleeting thought.
Like the soft snow that has come and gone.
Yet the warmth I felt when you touched my cold self
Still blankets this winter day remains.

One Winter Day

I keep breathing so I can feel your breath still warm about me.
Frozen is my heart as I look out across these frozen shores.
I feel you have gone somewhere far away. Where can I find you?

Longing

The stiff branches I see everywhere around me, they are stiff from standing against the cold.
Waiting for your return.
And I can hear them whispering to the quiet winds that they weep for you to return.
However strong these trees are, the sadness they carry is burdened by this deep winter.

Tilted

Sultry Winter

Fern

Underpass

Where to?

Where do we go next?
When will we meet again?
Until my spring comes, I remain frozen in this winter forever.

 

Lantau Island – some memoirs

Waiting in the Rain

|In the rain, he awaits by the shore of a forgotten place. For the mail that won’t come. For the decrepit and dilapidated village that can only be home|

It was raining really hard when I took this photo on Lantau Island.  And this one dog just would not stay out of the rain.  I think he was having so much fun outside – I wish I could do the same. We ended up missing the last bus to Po Lin monastery, mostly because I really really had to go pee.. :/

Shopkeeper

I took this photo on the bus on our way back down to Tung Chung. This little shop/living shack offers the infamous “Mountain Water Tofu” which is the best tofu yet, supposedly very silky and pure because it is made with mountain water. You can see below those red painted words is a little miniature shrine for the gods of the ground – and probably the remains of innumerable incense. I wonder if they really still use water from the mountain but maybe so since this is on Lantau Island afterall. I really wonder if Lantau will soon be overrun with pollution and overpopulated like Kowloon and Hong Kong island is now. The middle tables are for Chinese chess I believe. On a sunny day, that is.

I really wonder what it is like to live like this and I wonder if I’ll ever have the chance to.