Wind in the pines.
If asked
the nature of chanoyu
say it's the sound
of windblown pines
in a painting.
— Sen Sōtan (1578-1658)
A photograph of my current favourite book, Wind in the Pines: Classic Writings on the Way of Tea as a Buddhist Path. At one of my favourite morning sitting spots, under a pine on the front porch of a deserted little house near here.
Chanoyu is the Japanese Tea Ceremony, an ancient tradition of which I am a student.