![a black whippet in a raincoat walking on a forest trail](https://whippetwisdomdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2021/05/lr-3728-ww.jpg?w=1024)
A gentle rain is scenting the dry places along the trail as we climb through the forest. The vibrant green of Spring grass opens the heart. Music from a tinkling brook echoes the gratitude we are feeling. Here, we follow our instinct. We leave all that is learned behind and surrender to the knowing.
a butterfly
with tenderness
she dances
from flower to flower
pure white and breathing
© Xenia Tran
![a stream flowing near the bottom of a woodland hill](https://whippetwisdomdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2021/05/lr-3720-ww.jpg?w=1024)
Wishing you all a happy Monday,
with love from Eivor, Pearl and Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Settings: f/1.8 – 1/1250 s – ISO 200, f/1.8 – 1/1250 s – ISO 180 and f/5 – 1/1250 s – ISO 1000.
PI Poetry Prompt: Butterfly
Earthweal: Sanctuary
Beautiful 💜💜💜
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Thank you so much for your kind words dear friends! 🤗💖🐕 xxx
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Beautiful 💛✨✨✨
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Thank you kindly dear Pragalbha! 💛 xxx
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Beautiful verse Xenia, and the forest looks a wonderful place to walk 💚 Much love from our house to yours 💕🐕💕xxx
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Thank you so much for your kind words dear Cathy, it’s a wonderful area for walking either side of the midge-season 😉💚 Hope you are having a great day and much love from our house to yours 🤗💕🐕 xxx
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Thank you 🤗💚🐕xxx
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Lovely lines! ❤
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Thank you kindly dear Eliza! 💜
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Always a pleasure to read
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Thank you kindly dear Bella 💜 xxx
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What an enjoyable walk!
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Thank you kindly dear Amy! 💚 xxx
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I love that the walk into wonder requires a letting go. No way to find sanctuary in the known. I shiver imagining the presences joining you there …
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Thank you so much for your kind words dear Brendan, the sheer magic of the presences here can be overwhelming at times, in a good way 💚
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Lovely verse –the last line especially!
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Thank you so much for your kind words dear Kim 💛
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Beautiful- just found your page but couldn’t follow – will try from laptop . We are about to get a whippet 3 month puppy – so rather excited if not a bit nervous as we too have collection of animals
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Thank you so much for your kind words dear Ruth 💗 So lovely to hear you are welcoming a whippet into your world – your life will never be the same! They make wonderful companions and are the gentlest souls. Their prey drive can be strong and it’s great to encourage them to chase a ball or frisbee from the start so they can release that energy in a natural way without bringing harm to other living creatures 💚🐕
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Thankyou so much – I’m hoping she copes with our cat and cocker spaniel x
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Fingers crossed – she’s young enough to get used to them quickly. We’ve had two greyhounds live happily with three cats (the cats were there first) and they adored each other 💜
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That’s what I’m hoping for too – a harmonious house
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It’s great to know such untouched, peaceful places still exist.
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Thank you kindly dear Suzanne, we’re grateful for the wild places here and they are thankfully well cared for and protected 💚
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Your words carry peace as well as the scent of spring. Have an enjoyable week Xenia.
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Thank you so much for your kind words dear Anne and a wonderful week to you too from all of us here 🤗💖🐎 xxx
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“Pure white and breathing” captures it perfectly.
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Thank you so much for your kind words dear Laurie 💛
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I adore your whippets in raincoats, Xenia, and would love to walk your rain-scented forest trail and hear the music from a tinkling brook – I bet that water tastes sweet. The butterflies have taken cover from the weather here; I’ll be so glad to have them back.
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Thank you so much for your kind words dear Kim, it was blissful to walk here and the sun was very bright between the showers. I hope the weather improves where you are too and the butterflies will be back before too long! 💛🦋 xxx
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It’s Tuesday now but mine is all the happier for having read of your sanctuary 🙂
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Aww thank you so much for your kind words dear Ingrid 💚
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Happy Monday dear Xenia and a pleasure to see the beautiful pictures and such a lovely poem of being blissful. Thanks.
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Thank you so much for your kind words dear Kamal and a wonderful new week to you too from all of us here! 🤗💜🌞 xxx
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You are always welcome dear Xenia. A great week ahead to you and your little darlings too.
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🤗💖🙏 xxx
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🤗🤗🤗❤️❤️❤️
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Beautiful. I especially love the surrendering to the knowing.
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Thank you so much for your kind words dear Sherry 💜
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Oh I’m a day late, finding sanctuary is always my goal when outside and with nature! Beautiful poem 🦋
Sending love from us here! 💙🐴❤️🐾💙
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Thank you so much for your kind words dear Diana, much love back to you, Chloe and Murphy from all of us here 🤗💕🐴 xxx
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Such an enticing and beautiful sanctuary – you paint your landscape with vivid beauty, both the seen and unseen.
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Thank you so much for your kind words dear Lindi 💜
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🦋💚🦋
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We leave all that is learned behind and surrender to the knowing.–that is the purest sanctuary. (K)
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Thank you kindly dear Kerfe 💫💜💫
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Nether Land
Forever Land
Scotland Feels
FoRest Birth KNoW
Dreaming Forevernow
Dog Sight God Site SaMe DiffeRent Now..:)
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Thank you kindly dear Fred, that’s beautiful 🤗💖🌲
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🍁🍃🌳🏝🌲🌄☺️
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