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Between Heather and Grass – Our Book is Here
We are delighted that Between Heather and Grass – Poems and Photographs Filled with Love, Hope and Whippets is now available in paperback, ebook and Kindle editions.
When we selected images and poems for our first collection Sharing Our Horizon (September 2018), a few poems were set aside especially for this second book. One of those poems was A Message from the Stars, a poem about our nine-year old nephew Jamie Baker who suffered from leukaemia. His story shows us what love, football and a big dream can do, even in the most difficult circumstances.
With these poems in place, I dedicated the following year to creating photographs and poems that would flow naturally through the seasons with these earlier verses.
Your feedback and encouraging words helped us to select the most popular poems among these. In addition, the lovely bloggers among you who host regular photo and poetry challenges inspired us to look at what had been written from a different perspective.
As with our first book, we have created Between Heather and Grass to help raise funds for animal rehoming shelters, a cause very close to our heart.
We are also supporting Children with Cancer UK, in memory of our nephew Jamie. This charity works hard to find better and kinder ways to treat children with cancer. Their mission is to help every child ring their end of treatment bell, and to keep families together.
We want to say a very big thank you to Darlene Swanson for the book design and to the teams at Reedsy and Ingram Spark for putting everything together.
Our book is available in paperback and can be ordered from your local bookstore, online bookstores, Amazon, Indie Bound, Barnes & Noble, Waterstones, Fishpond, Adlibris and any other store connected to the IngramSpark Global network.
Our Apple Book can be downloaded from Apple Books in Europe, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Asia.
Our ebook is available via Kobo, Google Play, Nook and many others worldwide.
Our Kindle version is available via Amazon UK, Amazon US, Amazon Australia, Amazon India, Amazon Japan and Amazon worldwide.
For further details on where to order, please visit our Between Heather and Grass page.
In so many positive ways, you all played a part and this book is for you too.
A very big thank you for all your love, support and inspiration.
Wishing you all a beautiful Friday and a wonderful weekend,
with love from Eivor, Pearl and Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Settings: f/5 – 1/6 s – ISO 200 and f/2.8 – 1/2000 s – ISO 100.
Word of the Day Challenge: Accommodate
Please click on the cover for a peek inside …
… or scan the QR Code below:
Tanka: Late Summer Mountain
footsteps
full of devotion
side by side
heather and flowers bloom
in late summer mountains
© Xenia Tran
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.
Camera: Panasonic Lumix FZ200, Settings: f/2.8 – 1/200 s – ISO 100, f/2.8 – 1/160 s – ISO 100 and f/2.8 – 1/640 s – ISO 100.
Lens-Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #61: Precious Pets
Carpe Diem #1737: Introduction to a Month Full of Devotion – Adam’s Peak
Rag Tag Daily Prompt: Marvel
Haiku: Catching Footprints
sheer joy
catching your footprints
in the air
© Xenia Tran
With love from Eivor, Pearl and Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Camera: Panasonic Lumix FZ200, Settings: f/2.8 – 1/640 s – ISO 100, f/2.8 – 1/1000 s – ISO 100 and f/2.8 – 1/1600 s – ISO 100.
Nurturing Thursday: Jump
Your Daily Word Prompt: Charge
Rag Tag Daily Prompt: Ingenuity
This poem features in Between Heather and Grass. If you haven’t read the book yet, feel free to take a peek inside:
Wordless Wednesday: Thoughtful Observations
With love from Eivor, Pearl and Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Camera: Panasonic Lumix FZ200, Settings: f/2.8 – 1/320 s – ISO 100, f/2.8 – 1/640 s – ISO 100 and f/3.2 – 1/250 s – ISO 100.
Weekly Word Prompt: Observation
Haiku: After the Rain
Inshriach Forest
sunshine after rain
gliding through the wood
the loch glitters
© Xenia Tran
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.
Camera: Panasonic Lumix FZ200, Settings: f/3.2 – 1/400 s – ISO 100, f/3.2 – 1/640 s – ISO 100 and f/4 – 1/1600 s – ISO 160.
Frank J Tassone’s Weekly Haikai Challenge #91: Midsummer Rain
Lens-Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #51: Unique
Haibun: Forest Rain
The beech tree’s green canopy spreads across the grey and blue of morning sky, exchanging glances with the younger ones. The carpet is still red and gold with memories of autumn. So many smells of old and new. We breathe in the past and exhale the present, before inhaling the present and exhaling the past again.
rain falls
a journey of its own
in the forest
© Xenia Tran
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.
Camera: Panasonic Lumix FZ200, Settings: f/3.2 – 1/100 s – ISO 100 and f/2.8 – 1/500 s – ISO 100.
Carpe Diem Weekend Meditation #89: Extreme Haibun – Rain
Lens-Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #50: Trees
When the Mist Rises
when the mist rises
this light that wraps around
where comfort falls
is always here for you
is always here for you
© Xenia Tran
Eivor and Pearl wanted to create this post for our blogging friend Bella and her family and the many others who lost their loved ones after they’d been given transfusions or products containing infected blood.
May the love and light of this world continue to wrap itself around all of you who need it at this time.
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 – 1/1100 s – ISO 100 and f/2.8 – 1/2000 s – ISO 100.
Becca’s Nurturing Thursday: All That Matters
This poem features in Between Heather and Grass. If you haven’t read the book yet, feel free to take a peek inside:
Wordless Wednesday: Breathtaking Days
We wish you all a very happy Wednesday!
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 100.
Sunday Stills: Playground
Rag Tag Daily Prompt: Breathtaking
Wordless Wednesday: Alt na Bodachan
Glen Affric
With love from Eivor, Pearl and Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Camera: Panasonic Lumix FZ200, Settings: f/3.2 – 1/200 s – ISO 100 and f/3.2 – 1/100 s – ISO 100.
Rag Tag Daily Prompt: Splash
Whippet Wisdom - a Highland Journey 
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