thefridayfive

1. What is your favorite season?
Winter, hands down. It's dark and cold, both of which I highly prefer over bright and warm, and the snow is beautiful and covers up so much of the dirt and absorbs noise, the world feels more quiet.

2. Do you do anything special to acknowledge the change of seasons?
Spring cleaning. Mostly to stash away winter clothing and get the summer clothes out. And wash the windows.

3. Planning to do any spring cleaning this year?
See above :)

4. What is your favorite plant and why?
Plant? Eh, I don't know. Of house plants, ficus benjamina or epipremnum aureum which I have always known by it's Finnish name kultaköynnös, direct translation 'gold vine'. And of the plants I can see when I look out the window? Evergreens and during autumn, also maples.

5. Hows about a poem? C'mon, it can be about anything you like.
I don't understand the freeform western poetry. I love traditional Japanese poetry, haiku and renga. The way they are so limited by their form make them so powerful in their expression. The set form also makes those poems very hard to translate into English. So no examples.