We walk on to a raised clearing in the forest where the light comes through. It is easy to see from here, how different trees relate to each other. The path of their voice flows through roots beneath our feet, through leafless branches. For anyone still enough to listen, a portal opens into this kinder world, this circle of giving and receiving.
light snow
on the higher ground
a new beginning
© Xenia Tran
We wish you all a wonderful Tuesday,
with love from Eivor, Pearl and Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Camera: Panasonic Lumix FZ200, Settings: f/2.8 – 1/60 s – ISO 125 and f/2.8 – 1/80 s – ISO 160.
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Thank you for the good wishes – and a Happy New Year to you, too! ❤
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Thank you so much for your kind words dear Jan, a wonderful New Year to you too from all of us here 💜 xxx
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A new beginning heralded by those beautiful dogs, who could teach we humans a few things about listening.
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Thank you so much for your kind words dear Laurie, Eivor and Pearl are wonderful at showing us when to be still 💜 xxx
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I love your thoughts on the trees 🌲 Wishing you all a lovely rest of the day 💚🐕🤗xxx
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Thank you so much for your kind words dear Cathy, a lovely rest of the day to you too from all of us here 🤗💖🐕 xxx
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Thank you 💚🤗🐕xxx
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Lovely. And yes … trees ‘talk to each other’ through roots and whispered branch-to-branch. 🙂
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Thank you so much for your kind words dear Na’ama 💜 xxx
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I like your thoughts on trees. I am always sort of lost in wonder when I’m in a forest, so I resonate with your words.
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Thank you so much for your kind words dear Beverly. I totally understand being lost in wonder in a forest, it feels like such a harmonious world 💜🌲 xxx
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Very nice Xenia! I believe your dogs walk you, rather than the other way around!
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Thank you dear Dwight, Eivor and Pearl totally agree with you! 😀🐾🐾
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Xenia, I can’t recall If I said happy new year to you, but Happy new year to you.
Another beautiful post by you.
I wrote a little post on your new book :
https://thoughtsnlifeblog.com/2020/01/07/between-heather-and-grass-by-xenia-tran/
I hope it okay. I am not good at book review.
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Thank you so much for your kind words dear Bella and for creating this beautiful post! I’m deeply touched and send much love your way xxx
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Welcome.. 🤗🥰
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Wonderful words! I will try to remember them on my walk with Pearly Greyhound tomorrow. xxx
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Thank you dear Annabelle! We wish you both a wonderful walk tomorrow and please give Pearly Greyhound a big pat from us all xxx
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What a wonderful way to walk … trees are magic.
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Thank you Bjorn, they truly are 🙂
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“For anyone still enough to listen….” Perfect haibun, Xenia.
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Thank you so much for your kind words dear Lisa 💜 xxx
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You are very welcome.
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so much love for the hopeful words and lovely photo!
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Thank you so much for your kind words dear Rosema 💜 xxx
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most welcome! ❤
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Beautiful photos Xenia with so many stories to take in.
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Thank you so much for your kind words dear Denis 🙂
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So beautiful, Xenia – in words and in photography.
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Thank you so much for your kind words dear Ann-Christine 🤗💖 xxx
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♥♥♥
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Not unlike the Whippet in the
Previous Blog Poem
i Sensed the
Snow coming
Soon Just
the Look
the Look of it all
Feeling Scotland Snow Coming..:)
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Thank you so much for your kind words dear Fred. The snow is in the sky and has been falling on the higher ground. The temperature is dropping on the lower ground and we may get snow here in a few days too 💜☃️
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Hehe.. it can wait
Here till i get well
As i do get cold
With the Flu 🥶😊
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How lovely a portal opening to a kinder world. This is a gem!
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Thank you so much for your kind words dear Grace 💜 xxx
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I am late to the reading! Posted on Monday and then got immersed in packing, organizing, preparing etc as we flew yesterday to San Diego. Spending two months in a rental here away from Boston’s winter! I so enjoy your posts and seeing your photos. I’ve always believed trees and nature talks to us….walking in a woods or forest most especially can give us a soothing…a hope….a realization of calm.
This is a beautiful write! As yours always are 🙂
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Thank you so much for your kind words dear Lillian and what a blessing to spend the Winter in sunnier climes! Enjoy your stay in San Diego and much love from our house to yours 💜 xxx
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First I love to offer you my congratulations on publishing your new haiku booklet. Thank you for granting me the joy of reading it … Your new booklet is a real gem and I enjoyed reading during the last tough month of 2019. It gave me joy and happiness.
What an awesome haibun you have created, the fragile beauty of a thin layer of snow caught in a nice haiku to conclude your haibun. Thank you Xenia.
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Thank you so much for your kind words dear Kristjaan and I’m so glad to hear you are enjoying our new book. I cannot thank you enough for all your inspiration through Carpe Diem Haiku Kai and I hope this new year will bring you many blessings and more moments of joy 💜
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“The path of their voice flows through roots beneath our feet, through leafless branches. ” This is a wonderful line.
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Thank you so much for your kind words dear Ken. It often feels as if the trees are talking to each other in this way xxx
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The path of their voice flows through their roots beneath our feet … beautiful.
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Thank you so much for your kind words dear Julie 💜 xxx
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