Last Apple Tree

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He had been tending his many orchards for many years. Getting older, things got more difficult and one by one, he had to cut down the many trees in his orchards.
Today I observed the old farmer below in my valley :



winter cold -
he felled his last
apple tree




Winterkälte -
er fällt den letzten
Apfelbaum



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The sad reality of rural Japan 2007, where the old get older rapidly and there are no young ones to take over. So the weeds, badgers and wild boars thrive ...



Read my Haiku Archives from January 2007


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