Tanka: Festive Memories

a blue and white whippet in a winter coat in a frosty forest
a blue and white whippet in a winter jacket on a forest trail

melting snow
a twinkle of light
in every tree
memories of seasons past
we shared in distant places

© Xenia Tran

melting beads of frost on the trees and patches of snow on the brown grass in an ancient pine forest

Wishing you all a happy Monday and a peaceful new week,

with love from Eivor, Pearl and Xenia xxx

Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.

Lens-Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #178: You Choose

Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge: Festive Memory

Author: whippetwisdom

The stories, poems and photographs on this blog are the original creative work of Xenia Tran. Inspired by life in the Scottish Highlands and in awe of nature she gives voice to the wisdom of her adopted and fostered whippets.

38 thoughts on “Tanka: Festive Memories”

    1. Thank you so much for your kind words dear Cathy, it’s not looking likely here either with the snows melting away 💛 Wishing you a blessed evening too and much love from our house to yours 🤗💕🐕 xxx

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  8. Gorgeous photos and poetry. Scotland is on my very short list of places I’d like to visit. I have Scottish ancestry on my mother’s side, and my older sister has traced these roots back a few generations and also discovered some distant relatives living over there now. Your photography is so intriguing to me for this reason. I’m so glad you include it with your marvelous poetry! 🙂

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    1. Thank you so much for your kind words dear Mike and how lovely you have distant relatives and roots here! So many people with Scottish roots who visit Scotland for the first time say they feel that a part of them is coming home. I hope you will get a chance to visit the places where your ancestors lived one day too 😊

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  15. i’m Starting to FeeL iT NoW Xenia

    Snow And Sun We HaVE iN

    Common GRoWinG Shine

    Hills Gently Rolling

    Scotland

    Fluffy

    Cold to
    Hold Us
    Releasing
    Us Again to
    Warm Fires of Loving Life…

    And SMiLES Dear FRiEnD Hehe
    With 76F Degrees Coming on
    Christmas Day in Florida

    i Will Surely

    Dream HAha
    For SNoW in
    Christmas SPRing…:)

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