Tanka challenge 11/20/09

Winds buffet the inky clouds
Even as the sun stabs through
Curtains of raindrops.
Venture out at your peril:
On such days, foxes marry.*

*A "Foxes' wedding (kitsune no yomeiri)" is a Japanese term for a sun shower. Foxes have a reputation in Japanese folklore as tricksters. The photo is a still from Akira Kurosawa's "Dreams," in which a small boy happens upon the wedding procession of the secretive foxes.
http://www.genjipress.com/img/dvd/2003/B00007G1ZC-027.jpg )

Serendipitous photo op

So there I was, coming out of the Safeway at South Shore when I realized it was nearly sunset and the sky was likely to be doing some interesting things after today's fast moving storm. I turned right instead of left and began cruising slowly along Shoreline when I spotted sails. It figures: on a nice day with a breeze, there hadn't been anyone out, but it was cold and the light was going and there were a bunch of kite surfers out on the bay.