As in a painting of a dream

I took this maybe thirty years ago off the Mendocino Coast when I was visiting my sister. 

I didn't know birds then, but, when I magnify this picture, these are shaped like cormorants.

The picture makes me feel earthbound.

Morning haze:

as in a painting of a dream,

men go their ways.

BUSON

calligraphy of geese

against the sky--

the moon seals it

BUSON

(1716-1783)

It seems to me that the haiku of Buson 

have exactly the right quality to go with this photograph.