Whippet Wisdom – a Highland Journey
A journey through the seasons with two adopted whippets, a poet and a camera
shifting clouds –
everywhere we look
yellow flowers
© Xenia Tran
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.
Weekly Prompts Weekend Colour Challenge: Mellow Yellow
Rag Tag Daily Prompt: Shift
blessed rain –
how earth creates
its own miracles
© Xenia Tran
Wishing you all a happy Thursday and a peaceful rest of the week,
with love from Eivor, Pearl and Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Lens-Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #197: The Rule of Thirds
Word of the Day Challenge: Bliss
Cairngorms National Park
A few snowflakes brush our faces and melt before touching the ground. We are not sure, where they came from. The patch of sky above us is translucent blue. Across the loch, clouds hover above the snow-capped peaks. Perhaps they travelled from there, on the wind.
crossing the bridge
the sound of spring
in flowing water
© Xenia Tran
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.
Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge: Long
Rag Tag Daily Prompt: Flake
green grass
even in the shadows
signs of spring
© Xenia Tran
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.
CMMC: Spring or Autumn Season
Your Daily Word Prompt: Epitomize
eyes so blue
the child’s first glimpse
of the sea
© Xenia Tran
Presence #72, March 2022
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.
Word of the Day Challenge: Jubilant
Thursday’s Special: Pick a Word – March 2022 (asperous, effusive)
The Akita International Haiku Network has organised the World Haiku Series 2021 ‘as a token of gratitude to our friends for their great contribution and their deep love of haiku’ and I am deeply humbled, honoured and grateful to contribute haiku and images to these special series too. A warm-hearted thank you to Mr Hidenori Hiruta for his beautiful translations, to the Akita International Haiku Network for the organisation and to all the sponsors who made this series possible.
1
st brigid’s day
hand in hand we brace
the snow storm
(Whippet Wisdom blog, 1 February 2021)
聖ブリジッドの日
手をつないで気を引き締める
吹雪
2
settling down
three generations
of oxen
(Asahi Haikuist Network, The Asahi Shimbun, 5 February 2021)
くつろぐ
牛の
3世代
3
cherry blossom
an old pen
fills with ink
(Autumn Moon Haiku Journal 4:2, Spring/Summer 2021)
桜の花
古いペン
インクで満たす
4
desert flower
carving out this life
around the sun
(Haiku Dialogue, Troutswirl, The Haiku Foundation Blog, 4 March 2021)
砂漠の花
この人生を切り開く
太陽の周りで
5
lost and found
a barn key glitters
in the moonlight
(Asahi Haikuist Network, The Asahi Shimbun, 17 September 2021)
遺失物取扱所
納屋の鍵がきらめく
月光の下で
6
first light
we flock to save
the stranded dolphin
(Haiku Dialogue, Troutswirl, The Haiku Foundation Blog, 4 August 2021)
最初の光
救うために集まる
岸に乗り上げたイルカを
7
autumn leaf
this life and the next
one breath
(Whippet Wisdom blog, 7 October 2021)
紅葉
この人生と次の人生
一息
8
lighting the…
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After a frosty night, the sun warms the day. The light shines through leafless trees, glitters in the brown heather. A sandy trail meanders through gorse and pine towards the sea.
gentle breeze
a wagtail darts in and out
of the shadows
© Xenia Tran
Wishing you all a blessed Monday and a peaceful week ahead,
with love from Eivor, Pearl and Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Weekly Prompts Colour Challenge: Brown
It is safe to return to the woods now the storms have passed and it takes a while to find our bearings. Where once was a path, the ground is covered with fallen branches. Where, until recently, trees stood filled with squirrels and birdsong, we discover wide open spaces filled with light. The usual landmarks where we would turn right and right again have disappeared and we fall back on an ancient, inner compass.
deep forest
each journey still rooted
in the soil
© Xenia Tran
We hope you all stayed safe in the storms and wish you a blessed Monday and a peaceful week ahead,
with love from Eivor, Pearl and Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
PI Poetry Prompt: Storm
Weekly Prompt Weekend Challenge: Close-Up
World War Two defences along our coast are tilting and sinking into tidal sands. Blocks of cement filled with local stone were here to stop tanks arriving via ship and water. After the war, these lines were left here, just in case. Today, some are used to rest towels of swimmers and surfers. Others become picnic tables or a shelter from the wind. When you touch them with your hand you feel the vibration of wind and waves, the pulse of the earth in the local stone. There is a lot to be grateful for when we remember all those who helped us live in peace.
how soon
a stream flows out
to sea
© Xenia Tran
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 #185: Change
Rag Tag Daily Prompt: Fragile
Whippet Wisdom - a Highland Journey 
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