Whippet Wisdom – a Highland Journey
A journey through the seasons with two adopted whippets, a poet and a camera
Cairngorms National Park
Warm greetings from the Cairngorms National Park! We are taking a short blogging break to make the most of this fine weather and will be back next Wednesday.
Wishing you all a wonderful week,
with love from Eivor, Pearl and Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Camera: Panasonic Lumix FZ200, Settings: f/2.8 – 1/1600 s – ISO 100, f/2.8 – 1/2000 s – ISO 100 and f/4 – 1/800 s – ISO 100.
Sunday Stills: Signs of Autumn
Loch Morlich
stones in water
from emptiness to wholeness
these mountains
around them and within them
the wisdom of this life
© Xenia Tran
Wishing you all a beautiful Tuesday,
with love from Eivor xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Camera: Panasonic Lumix FZ200, Settings: f/2.8 – 1/1600 s – ISO 160, f/4 – 1/1250 s – ISO 160 and f/4.5 – 1/1600 s – ISO 100.
Carpe Diem Weekend Meditation #103 – Quest for a New Masterpiece – start of Autumn
Ronovan’s Weekly Haiku Challenge #272: Empty & Whole
Dutch Goes the Photo Tuesday Photo Challenge: Stone
so subtle
september equinox
shifting clouds
© Xenia Tran
Wishing you all a very happy September Equinox and a wonderful week ahead,
with love from Eivor, Pearl and Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Camera: Panasonic Lumix FZ200, Settings: f/3.2 – 1/2000 s – ISO 100, f/3.2 – 1/2000 – ISO 160 and f/4 – 1/1600 s – ISO 100.
Carpe Diem Weekend Meditation #103: Quest for a New Masterpiece – Start of Autumn
Frank J Tassone’s Weekly Haikai Challenge #105: September Equinox
Rag Tag Daily Prompt: Subtle
The path winds its way between sedge grass, the first blooms of heather. A scent of all things new that Summer brings, fills the air. We pause by a few lines borrowed from a famous poem by Norman MacCaig, engraved in granite. The large question mark enables us to ask his questions once more. Who owns this landscape? Who owns our beautiful planet? In our view too, it can only be master-less. For the short time that we’re here, we immerse ourselves in its beauty. We do our best to care for what we find, leaving nothing but our footprints, and our gratitude behind.
august moon
the words of our ancestors
still feel true
© Xenia Tran
The segment engraved in the stone is taken from A Man in Assynt, a long poem Norman MacCaig (1910-1996) wrote in 1967 to accompany a BBC documentary.
Wishing you all a very happy Monday and a wonderful new week,
with love from Eivor, Pearl and Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Settings: f/2.8 – 1/500 s – ISO 100, f/4 – 1/640 s – ISO 100 and f/4 – 1/1000 s – ISO 200.
Frank J Tassone’s Weekly Haikai Challenge #99: Sturgeon Moon
Lens-Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #58: Something Old, New, Borrowed and Blue
Knockan Crag Nature Reserve
Loch Eadar dha Bheinn winks at us from his mountain. Clar Loch Mor, Loch Dhonnachaidh and Clar Loch Beag make us wonder, whether we’ve met each other once before. I wish we could stay, get to know them better. Their personalities, their taste in fish.
crystal waters
the kindness in their names
a gaelic song
© Xenia Tran
Wishing you all a very happy start to August,
with love from Eivor, Pearl and Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Camera: Panasonic Lumix FZ200, Settings: f/4 – 1/640 s – ISO 160, f/2.8 – 1/400 s – ISO 100 and f/2.8 – 1/640 s – ISO 160.
Your Daily Word Prompt: Applicable
Word of the Day Challenge: Kindness
Lochan an Ais
we drink the water
left here by the clouds
quiet beauty
© Xenia Tran
We wish you all a very happy Monday and a wonderful new week,
with love from Eivor, Pearl and Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Camera: Panasonic Lumix FZ200, Settings: f/2.8 – 1/2000 s – ISO 160, f/2.8 – 1/1600 s – ISO 160 and f2.8 – 1/2000 s – ISO 100.
Lens-Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #56: Seascapes and/or Lakeshore
Ronovan’s Weekly Haiku Challenge #264: Beauty & Quiet
Rag Tag Daily Prompt: Astral
Knockan Crag Nature Reserve
The grass-covered roof of the Rock Room blends in with the ferns and heather of the hillside. Inside are display boards in English and Gaelic, explaining how parts of the earth’s crust have travelled long distances. The older mylonites on display at Knockan Crag had been forced up against and over the later Cambrian layer.
There’s a sculpture of two geologists, Ben Peach and John Horne, to celebrate these findings. Today the grass is growing around Horne’s feet, some of the seeds tickle his knees. The sun feels extra warm after the morning’s showers.
deep time
so many treasures
breathing the same air
© Xenia Tran
You can find more photographs with a triple haibun about this beautiful nature reserve in Moving Earth and a few photographs taken from inside the Rock Room in North West Highlands Geopark.
Wishing you all a wonderful Thursday and a happy weekend ahead,
with love from Eivor, Pearl and Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Camera: Panasonic Lumix FZ200, Settings: f/4 – 1/640 s – ISO 160, f/2.8 – 1/640 s – ISO 160 and f/2.8 – 1/1000 s – ISO 160.
Dutch Goes the Photo Tuesday Photo Challenge: Sculpture
Nancy Merrill’s A Photo A Week Challenge: Unexpected
Becca’s Nurturing Thursday: Celebrate
dVerse Poets: Open Link Night #247
