Fernleaves

as a silhouette in our garden. I could not miss them today, although they were there all the time. I gave the birds their seeds and at one moment I saw, very shy, a crested Tit, that picked one seed, flew away and that was her ration for the day.
The storm kept us nearly all day inside, although the sky was lovely coloured blue and a fierce sun shone brightly.

In my heaps of paper I found the Guides Joanne, petit interprete espérantiste.
A very small leaflet of 15 pages. Esperanto, the constructed international auxiliary language, was created by Doktoro Esperanto, pseudonyme of L.L. Zamenhof, published on the 26th of july 1887.
It is spoken by 10 000 to 2 000 000 active or fluent speakers. And I learned to my surprise that Google added it as the 64th language to the programm.
Esperanto was suspected by many totalitarian states because of the international understanding it provided.
In my guide I find little converation sentences as in travelling books. In the hotel: I would like a room with a bed for two persons. Translation: Mi desiras Cambron con lito par du personoj. And similar ones. Completed with a little vocabulary.

My haiku:

The pink clouds invite
Come outside, come outside now
I resist their call

And the proverb by B. Jonson:

Custom is the most certain mistress of language.