Xenia Tran's Blog, page 7

Haiku: A Gentle Pulse

Cairngorms National Park

One Photo, A Thousand Stories

This week, Ann-Christine at Lens-Artists invites us to post a single picture and share why we have chosen this particular image and what it means to us. For ease of reading, and for those of you reading it in the Reader where the header image doesn’t show, I will repeat the same photograph several times … Continue reading "One Photo, A Thousand Stories"

Tanka: Winter’s Colours

Cairngorms National Park

Silent Sunday: Greeting the First Snowdrops

It’s so lovely to greet the first snowdrops of the year in our small coastal wood. Wishing you all a blessed Sunday and a peaceful new week, with love from Xenia xxx Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr. Silent Sunday Xingfu Mama’s Whatsoever is Lovely Challenge 2025 Week 5 Cee’s Flower of the Day

Bookspine Haiku: Creative Whimsy

greenery –the darkness is light enoughwalking home (Books by Tim Dee, Chris Ferris and Simon Armitage) In the Summer of 2022, Terri Hale French invited haiku poets at Triveni Haikai India to flex their haiku-muscles and stretch their imagination by walking over to their bookshelves and creating haiku from the titles of their favourite books. … Continue reading "Bookspine Haiku: Creative Whimsy"

Dogs in Our Lives

This week, Tina at Lens-Artists invites us to share images of cats and dogs. Alongside photographs of Bria, we are delighted to share photographs of the other dogs who journeyed with us in this life. Their love was unconditional and the joy of caring for these sweet souls is impossible to capture in words. Flynn … Continue reading "Dogs in Our Lives"

Tanka: A New Day

Findochty Harbour

Silent Sunday: One Day in Findochty

One sunny day last week we walked around Findochty and climbed the wee hill to visit the Memorial and enjoy all the complementary colours at play. Wishing you all a blessed Sunday and a peaceful new week, with love from Xenia xxx Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr. Silent Sunday Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge: … Continue reading "Silent Sunday: One Day in Findochty"

Haiku: Winter Walk

Cairngorms National Park

Silent Sunday: Flowing through the Forest

Cairngorms National Park