Whippet Wisdom – a Highland Journey
A journey through the seasons with two adopted whippets, a poet and a camera
first green shoots
between the last brown leaves
how smooth
your beautiful otherness
changes with the season
© Xenia Tran
Wishing you all a happy Thursday and a peaceful rest of the week,
with love from Misty and Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge: Change
circle of pine –
within each smile and breath
a space for dreaming
© Xenia Tran
Wishing you all a happy Thursday and a peaceful rest of the week,
with love from Misty and Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
CMMC: February Pick a Topic from my Photo (brown, green, rocks, water)
ocean colours
in the sky and mountains
even the wind
pocks the sand with hoofprints
where no deer have been
© Xenia Tran
Wishing you all a happy Thursday and a peaceful rest of the week,
with love from Misty and Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
CMMC: Calypso (Ocean) Colors
silvered beech –
a mountain stream sings
to the snow moon
© Xenia Tran
Wishing you all a happy Monday and a peaceful new week,
with love from Misty and Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Jez Braithwaite’s Water Water Everywhere #164
Cairngorms National Park
Imbolc –
the waters of
our heart
awaken in the glen we walk
a deep sense of belonging
© Xenia Tran
Imbolc is a Celtic holiday that honours the halfway point between Winter Solstice and Spring Equinox, celebrated in Neolithic Ireland and Scotland.
To celebrate we are delighted to share the video below featuring Am Monadh Ruadh by the Calum Stewart Quartet:
Wishing you all a blessed Imbolc and a peaceful rest of the week,
with love from Misty and Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge: Belonging
sniffs and smells
a smile from the stag
in the lichen
© Xenia Tran
Wishing you all a happy Monday and a peaceful new week,
with love from Misty and Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Lens-Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #234: Messages
sheltered wood
from the bend a glimpse
of snow falling
© Xenia Tran
haikuKATHA, Issue 16, February 2023
Wishing you all a happy Monday and a peaceful new week,
with love from Misty and Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge: Bend
Lens-Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #233: One Lens Walk
the stream
glides by in gurgles
where grass sleeps
a blackbird silver sings
through winter’s forest
© Xenia Tran
Wishing you all a happy Thursday and a peaceful rest of the week,
with love from Misty and Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
CMMC: January – Pick a Topic from my Photo (green, grass, silver, weather)
snow-melt …
how clear a stream can flow
beneath our new-found bridges
© Xenia Tran
Wishing you all a happy Monday and a peaceful new week,
with love from Misty and Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Lens-Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #232: Looking Back
Jez Braithwaite’s Water Water Everywhere #161
sharing our journey
through the grass
a lone goose
© Xenia Tran
I was at first concerned when I saw the Greylag goose on her own and was later assured by other walkers that a large flock had landed half an hour earlier in the grass behind her.
Wishing you all a happy Thursday and a peaceful rest of the week,
with love from Misty and Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
CMMC: January Amber Colors
Whippet Wisdom - a Highland Journey 
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