Xenia Tran's Blog, page 13

Haiku: Dog-Friendly Café

dog-friendly caféstaff give our colliethe high-five © Xenia Tran The Asahi Shimbun, 5 April 2024 On a rather wet day in April, we stopped for lunch at a dog-friendly café in Grandtully, Perthshire. I mostly took pictures of the terrace and fast-flowing river through the window, to avoid getting any of our fellow-diners in shot. … Continue reading "Haiku: Dog-Friendly Café"

Silent Sunday: A Wash of Blue

Wishing you all a blessed Sunday and a peaceful new week, with love from Xenia and Bria xxx Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr. Silent Sunday Rag Tag Daily Prompt: Wash Word of the Day Challenge: Aureole

Haiku: Pink Rhododendron

pink rhododendron –a hundred eyes smileat the flowers © Xenia Tran We are delighted to hear that our resilient fellow blogger Cee Neuner is now back home to continue her recovery and host her Flower of the Day prompt again. May you continue to feel better and better Cee! Wishing you all a wonderful Wednesday … Continue reading "Haiku: Pink Rhododendron"

Tanka Sequence: The Walled Garden

can I slow downwhat time we’re givento greet mouse-tail mossthe speckled wood who warmsher wings after the rain a shaft of lightthrough long shadowsyou trace a linewhere ghosts of mestill hug the elder tree mist curtainsone side of the shedfree from lightredshank sleeps whose goldonly the dead can see an inner sun riseswhere cherry blossom … Continue reading "Tanka Sequence: The Walled Garden"

Haiku: Gretna Green

Gretna Green …thirty-three years of rosessince we said “I do” © Xenia Tran The Asahi Shimbun, 21 June 2024 Thank you Paul for an amazing thirty-three years! Here’s to many more! The roses in the photographs were planted in our garden on previous anniversaries. Warm thanks to David McMurray at The Asahi Shimbun for selecting … Continue reading "Haiku: Gretna Green"

Seashore Rectangles

Egidio at Lens-Artists is inviting us to explore how images can be composed of two rectangles. I am more of an intuitive photographer and this is the first time anyone has asked me to consider rectangles, so thank you Egidio for making me think about compositions in a new way! I began by looking at … Continue reading "Seashore Rectangles"

Haiku: Getting Closer

getting closerwith joy in our heartsummer solstice © Xenia Tran Wishing you all a wonderful Wednesday and a blessed Summer Solstice, and to all our friends in the southern hemisphere a magical Winter Solstice, with love from Xenia and Bria xxx Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr. Xingfu Mama’s Whatsoever is Lovely Challenge 2024 … Continue reading "Haiku: Getting Closer"

Mindful Moments on a Sunny Day

When a cold, northern wind was blowing we heard it was warmer in-land and ventured into beautiful, hilly Aberdeenshire to visit Leith Hall gardens … … where we were greeted by the heavenly scent of yellow azalea … … enjoying the warmth and brightness of the day. Some of the paths were marked by pots … Continue reading "Mindful Moments on a Sunny Day"

Tanka: Light and Shade

Cairngorms National Park

Seashore Connections

When the sea retreats, we see layers of rock connecting us to ancient times … … exposed tidal sands for Bria to play, sniff, run and connect … … snails who carry their own houses, clinging to exposed rocks, covered in seaweed and barnacles … … and limpets clinging to another rock with more barnacles, … Continue reading "Seashore Connections"