On this shortest day the light is extra warming. Oystercatchers poised with calm stride out along the shoreline. We run and chase some balls, grateful for the blue sky and the warm of Winter.
so peaceful
every blink a golden hour
on solstice day
© Xenia Tran
This is our last post before we take a short blogging break to celebrate Christmas with our loved ones.
We will continue to share adoption appeals from shelters on Twitter over the festive season as this is traditionally a time when many pets are handed in or abandoned. We hope all these animals will find the loving homes they deserve and if you are thinking about getting a pet please consider making adoption your first option.
We want to say a huge thank you to the wordpress team for enabling this amazing platform where so many real friendships have blossomed.
We want to thank our followers and fellow bloggers for the lovely comments and inspiring posts that teach us something new each day.
We wish you all a happy Winter Solstice, a very Happy Festive Season and a wonderful start to the New Year.
With love from all of us here,
Eivor, Pearl and Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Camera: Panasonic Lumix FZ200, Settings: f/2.8, 1/500 s, ISO 125, f/4, 1/320 s, ISO 100 and f/2.8, 1/500 s, ISO 160.
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Happy Solstice Day, and Happy New Year (galactically) tomorrow!
Thanks for all the joy and beauty you have given over this year.
Visiting your blog is always one of the warmest parts of my day.
Just what we need in our depths of winter!
May the peace and joy of the holiday season find you, and keep you throughout the rolling year.
Best regards,
Paz
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Thank you so much for your kind words, your good wishes and the light you keep on giving Paz. We wish you a Happy Solstice Day and Happy New Year tomorrow too. May peace and magic always find you, with love from all of us here xxx
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Happy Holidays! Thanks so much for sharing the joyful exuberance of your lovely pets! Their photos bring a smile to my face everyday 😊 Best wishes for all of you in the New Year😊
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Thank you so much for your kind words and for sharing your beautiful photographs with the world! Best wishes to you too from all of us here :o)
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Reblogged this on Frank J. Tassone and commented:
#Haiku Happenings #7: Xenia Tran’s latest #haibun for my current #haikai challenge!
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Thank you so much for the reblog Frank and Happy Solstice Day! :o)
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My pleasure, Xenia! 😇
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Wishing you all a very happy Winter Solstice and much peace, joy and love for the festive season and beyond 💖 xxx
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Thank you dear Cathy, a very happy Winter Solstice with joy and love for the festive season and beyond to you and your family too with a big pat for Finn from all of us here :o) xxx
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Thank you 🙂 xxx
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Happy holidays to all of you, Xenia 🙂 ❤
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Thank you dear Rekha, we wish you and yours a magical time and a great start to the New Year! :o) xxx
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Thank you so much ❤ wish you too a great time and a wonderful start to the new year. 💐
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Thank you dear Rekha :o) xxx
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Thank you for your encouragement towards adopting pets. All my cats have been adoptions and they have blessed my family forever. Winter solstice is my favorite day of the year. Like that infinitesimal pause at the end of a pendulum swing, the earth turns to the light. It reminds me that there is an end to darkness, an end to falling as the Unconquered Son of God, who is the true light came to us in our darkness. Have a blessed time with your family.
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Thank you so much for your kind words Natalie and it is so good to hear you have adopted all your cats and offered them a loving home. It is a very special day today and we can feel the earth preparing to turn to the light again. We wish you and your family a blessed time too and send you love across the miles from all of us here :o) xxx
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Happy Holidays! Thank you for all the efforts of posting these beautiful posts for us to enjoy. See you soon, Xenia! 🙂 xxx
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Thank you dear Amy and Happy Holidays to you too! I look forward to following your beautiful photographic journeys and seeing you again soon :o) xxx
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🙂 xxx
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BEAUTIFUL!! ❤
Thank you so much, dear Xenia.
We wish you and yours Happy Holidays and a fabulous New Year too❣️🌿❤️🤶🎄🎅
Lots of pats for Eivor 🐾🐾 & Pearl 🐾🐾
The Fab Four of Cley 💃🏼🚶👭
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Thank you dear Hanne, we wish you all a magical time! Much love to you, Klausbernd, Siri and Selma from all of us here :o) xxx
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Happy Holidays Xenia to all and we look forward to seeing Pearl and Eivor in 2018! Your posts are day brighteners always-🐾🐾🐕 Thank you!
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Thank you so much for your kind words Meg! Happy Holidays to you, Jack Henry, Hubble and Anna and I look forward to seeing your wonderful images in the New Year :o) xxx
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What a gorgeous winter day! Thank you for another year of beautiful photos, inspiring poems and many smiles to start the day. Happy Holidays to you and your (furry) family, Xenia!!! En, veel geluk en inspiratie in 2018. xxx
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Thank you so much for your kind words Liesbet! Happy Holidays to you and Mark and I look forward to your beautiful photographs and stories in the New Year! Een heel voorspoedig en gelukkig 2018 vol inspiratie en creativiteit! :o) xxx
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Happy Solstice, Pearl and Eivor! What a lovely bright day you’ve had! Much love, Millie and Pearl xx
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Thank you dear Millie and Pearl, it was beautiful! Happy Solstice to you too and much love to you both and to Annabelle :o) xxx
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Happy year’s end and beginning of the new to you and yours 🙂
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Thank you Jane, the same to you and may you all keep warm 😉🔥💖 xxx
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Thanks Xenia 🙂 Finbar agrees with the warm bit 🙂
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😉👍🐕💕
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🙂
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nice blog 🙂 love to see.. 🙂
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Thank you kindly Hassan ☺
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Happy holidays to you and yours, and thanks for all that you do. In these dark times in the United States, your blog has been a bright ray of light. Enjoy your time off!
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Thank you so much for your kind words dear Laurie and Happy Holidays to you, Clif and all the family! We hope the New Year will bring you plenty of joy and I always look forward to your beautiful photographs and stories ☺🙋♀️💖 xxx
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Aww, thanks so much! Looking forward to seeing those dogs run, sniff, and explore in 2018.
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😃🙋♀️💨🐕💕 xxx
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very nice 🙂
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Thank you Hassan ☺
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My pleasure 🙂
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May you find peace and renewal in this holiday season. Thank you for your uplifting words Xenia.
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Thank you so much for your kind words dear Ali 💜 We wish you a blessed holiday season and a magical start to the New Year ☺💖 xxx
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Happy Solstice, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of you from me and little Parker. Much love. ❤
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Thank you dear Lois and sweet little Parker, we wish you a magical festive season and a very happy New Year too! 🐈💕🎄 Much love to you from all of us here ☺💖🐕 xxx
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Thank you my FRiEnD and a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you, Katrina and Yellow Boy too! ☺🎄🎅🎆💖 xxx
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Wishing you and your family and your Beauties a wonderful and Merry Christmas! ❤
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Thank you dear E.C., we wish you and your family a wonderful Christmas too and please give Sheli-bean a big pat from all of us here ☺💖🐕 xxx
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Merry Christmas to you and the pooches!! Gorgeous photography and poem as well 🙂
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Thank you so much for your kind words Sherif! We wish you a wonderful festive season and an amazing New Year ☺🙋♀️🐕
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Thanks so much Xenia!! 🐶🎄
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Thank you for sharing your wisdom and beautiful photos this year! Wishing you Happy Holidays!
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Thank you so much for your kind words Ann-Christine and for sharing your amazing photographs with the world!💜 Happy Holidays to you and your family too!☺💖🎄🐕 xxx
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Thank you again – and love to your beautiful ladies!
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Thank you Ann-Christine ☺💖 xxx
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Enjoy your break Xenia! Wishing you and all of yours a beautiful holiday season and a happy and healthy New Year. xo-Amy
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Thank you so much for your kind words Amy 💜 Wishing you, your family and sweet Maverick a magical Holiday Season and an amazing New Year too! ☺💖🐕 xxx
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Thank you!
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Lovely. Enjoy your break. Look forward to your return. And I wish I lived closer to you so I could ask for a visit. I’d like to feel those velvet ears. (- ;
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Thank you so much for your kind words Kathie and we wish you and your family a wonderful festive season. Sending you a big hug across the miles and looking forward to seeing more of your lovely photographs and stories! ☺🙋♀️💖🐕 xxx
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I like the originality of your language.
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Thank you kindly Anne ☺
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Nothing like dogs running freely on the beach. Love this post
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Thank you so much for your kind words Pamela and we wish you and Brodie Happy Holidays ☺💖🐕🎄 xxx
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Beautiful post! Love to see the dogs running in the surf. We absorb all the sun we can get these short days!
Dwight
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Thank you so much for your kind words Dwight! ☺🐾🐾
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A beautiful uplifting post…it warms my heart to read your words and I’m left smiling seeing the joy in the eyes of your lovely dog during a winter’s day on the beach in the sun…enjoy the holidays and I’m looking forward to reading more in the new year!
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Thank you so much for your kind words dear Kimberlee 💜 We wish you Happy Holidays and a magical New Year and look forward to your poetic words and beautiful photographs too! ☺💖🐕 xxx
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My pleasure & thank you for the beautiful comment!
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☺🙋♀️💖 xxx
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