The air is crisp and cools down as the sun slides around the mountains. The faint smell of wood smoke mingles with pine and brown leaves. It’s time to head out of the forest, before the light goes.
after the walk
grandma’s bean soup
the first star
© Xenia Tran
With love from Eivor, Pearl and Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Camera: Panasonic Lumix FZ200, Settings: f/3.2 – 1/80 s – ISO 200 and f/3.2 – 1/80 s – ISO 200.
Carpe Diem #1590: Bean Soup
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The comforts of winter indeed! What, beside beans, goes into Grandma’s soup. Clif and I are wild about soup in the winter.
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Thank you dear Laurie 💜 We use vegetable broth or unsalted bouillon, red kidney beans, black beans, butter beans or white beans, fresh garlic, onion, chipotle, tarragon, celery, vine tomatoes, green bell pepper and chestnut mushrooms. We don’t use salt but you can add it if you want to 🙂💖 xxx
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Sounds delicious!
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😉💕 xxx
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I like the sound of Grandma’s soup 🍜 🤗 xxx
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Thank you dear Cathy, it’s delicious! 🙂💖 xxx
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Hi Eivor and Pearl, I didn’t know dogs ate bean soup. Your pal, Dusty T. Dog
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No worries dear Dusty, the bean soup is for the humans! We were getting stuck into our campfire stew while they were eating 😁🐾💖🐾 xxx
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Dusty is just a worrier (he truly is…) ❤
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🙂💖🐕 xxx
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Reblogged this on Frank J. Tassone and commented:
#Haiku Happenings #4: Xenia Tran’s latest #haibun!
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Thank you so much for the reblog Frank! 🙂💖 xxx
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There’s nothing quite like a tasty dinner after a winter walk! Lots of love, Pearly Greyhound 🙂 xx ❤
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Thank you sweet Pearl, it’s lovely to come home to all this goodness! 😁🐾💖🐾 xxx
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…grandma’s bean soup, Eivor and Pearl are so lucky!
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Thank you dear Amy! 🙂🐾💖🐾 xxx
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Yes, a good hearty soup warms the soul on a brisk winter day. Sounds delicious.
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Thank you dear Anita, it’s a lovely soup 🙂💖 xxx
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Great halibun to knock the chill off the day. Hugs to the Beauties whose love warms the soul. ❤
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Thank you so much for your kind words dear E.C. 💜 We wish you and Shelibean a wonderful weekend and much love to you both from all of us here 🤗🐾💖🐾 xxx
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Send my Gratitude to the
Dogs as they remind
me i’ve been sitting
in Front
of this
Screen
A Bit too
Long Need
Some Nature
Before Nature
Deficit Disorder
Comes otherwise
Understood as
Screams of
Screens
Becoming
A ‘Scream’ Painting too hehe..;)
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Thank you Fred, we all need nature to save us from ‘screams of screens’! 😁🌲🐾🐾
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Yes and
Cats and
Dogs
Do
With
SMiLes..:$
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Beautiful imagery. A welcome relief for me, in the humidity and heatwave of a Sydney summer.
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Thank you Draco, it’s relatively mild here for the time of year – hope the Sydney heatwave will pass soon! 🙂🍀
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