Walk Around Lake Lagunita
Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA

Photographs & Haikus
Friday, June 18, 2010

By Peter Y. Chou
WisdomPortal.com



Preface: On Friday, June 18, 2010, a friend and I took an half-hour walk (6:20-6:52 pm) around Lake Lagunita on the Stanford University campus. There were some small patches of water in the Lake, but no ducks visible as in April. The photos were formatted at Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab on June 21 (7:40-8:45 pm) and this HTML web page with haikus were written (3:45-5:40 pm).

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Friday, June 18, 2010, 6:32 pm
Lake Lagunita, Stanford University
View of Hoover Tower and misty clouds


Misty clouds float
in blue dreamscape as
Hoover Tower looms in distance.
Friday, June 18, 2010, 6:32 pm
Lake Lagunita, Stanford University
Sleeping Tree across the Lake


Sleeping Tree across
Lake Lagunita dreaming
Pac-Man Cloud on prowl.

Friday, June 18, 2010, 6:32 pm
Lake Lagunita, Stanford University
Stanford Dish slanting to the skies


That's the Stanford Dish
at left slanting to the skies
searching for extraterrestial life.

Friday, June 18, 2010, 6:32 pm
Lake Lagunita, Stanford University
Panoramic view of clouds, trees, and lake
(Merged photos 1, 2, and 3)

The trees are sleeping,
misty clouds are dreaming,
but the Lake is awake!
Friday, June 18, 2010, 6:34 pm
Lake Lagunita, Stanford University
Tiny frog jumping on bed of leaves


Looked like an insect jumping—
but it's a tiny frog
among the leaves.

Friday, June 18, 2010, 6:38 pm
Lake Lagunita, Stanford University
Tiny frog hopping on the rocky trail


Do you see a frog
among the rocks?— Kiss it
so it may turn to a prince.
Friday, June 18, 2010, 6:48 pm
Lake Lagunita, Stanford University
California Live Oak with eight branches


Hello Octopus Tree—
spray your ink on me
so I may write more books!

Friday, June 18, 2010, 6:51 pm
Lake Lagunita, Stanford University
Tree branch resembles Komodo dragon


Is that a Komodo dragon
from Indonesia
resting by the lake?


— Peter Y. Chou, Lake Lagunita, Stanford University, June 18, 2010



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