ready to paint
september’s butterflies
in the garden
© Xenia Tran
We’re delighted that this haiku is featured in Haiku Dialogue: Poet’s Choice, artist studio, Troutswirl, The Haiku Foundation Blog, 18 September 2019. A very big thank you to Kathy Munro for putting this edition together.
With love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Camera: Panasonic Lumix FZ200, Settings: f/4 – 1/400 s – ISO 100, f/4 – 1/500 s – ISO 100 and f/4 – 1/1250 s – ISO 100.
Sunday Stills: Favorite Sport or Hobby
Paula’s Thursday’s Special: Pick a Word in September (Yr 4) – Fluttering
Word of the Day Challenge: Love
Congrats, Xenia.
Pat
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Thank you kindly dear Pat 🙂💖🌺 xxx
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Congratulations! What beautiful captures 🦋 The butterflies are still around here too, even though most of the flowers are almost gone 🤗💙xxx
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Thank you so much for your kind words dear Cathy 🙂💜 We’ve still a few late flowers in bloom and the butterflies seem so happy now the warm weather has returned 🌞🦋 Wishing you a wonderful rest of the day and much love from our house to yours 🤗💖🐕 xxx
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Thank you 🤗 Hope the rest of your day is good too. Much love to you all from us 🐕💕xxx
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Thank you Cathy 🙂💜🙋♀️🐕 xxx
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Until I started reading blogs from England and Scotland, I had never heard of peacock butterflies. What beauties! How I wish they were in Maine.
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Thank you dear Laurie, we’ve seen a lot more butterflies than in previous years here, including peacock and painted ladies. With changing temperatures they’ve come further north – maybe they’ll visit Maine too in future years 🙂💖🦋 xxx
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I think they would have to flutter across the Atlantic to do so. I have never heard of them in this country. Of course they could be here and I have been unaware of them.
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Beautiful captured detail and so vivid. Great job!
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Thank you so much for your kind words dear Paula and for hosting this lovely challenge 🙂💖🦋 xxx
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They are so beautiful – great photos!
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Thank you so much for your kind words dear Eliza 🤗💖🦋 xxx
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Such beauty in a garden! Nice, clear images showing your hobbies of photography and writing haikus…and their rewards. Congrats on a perfect haiku and its illustration for the Sunday Stills prompt 😁
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Thank you so much for your kind words dear Terri and for hosting this lovely challenge 🤗💖🌺 xxx
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Great news, Xenia. Much deserved!
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Thank you so much for your kind words dear Sandy 🤗💖🌺 xxx
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Certainly!
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Congrats. Beautiful butterfly.
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Thank you so much for your kind words dear Anita 🙂💖🦋 xxx
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Congratulations on the selection, Xenia.
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Thank you kindly dear Ken 🙂💜🦋
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Congratulations, Xenia! 💖🐾xxx
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Thank you dear Amy! 🙂💖🌺 xxx
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Stunning! Really beautiful.
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Thank you kindly dear Nico 🙂🙏
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🌏🙂
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A wonderful butterfly Xenia 🙂 Congrats on the publication of the haiku
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Thank you so much for your kind words dear Brian 🙂🙏🦋
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Congratulations Xenia! So thrilled your work is extending beyond WP, and reaching far & wide!
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Thank you so much for your kind words dear Ju-Lyn 🤗💖🌺 xxx
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Beautiful:)
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Thank you dear Karina 🙂💚 🦋 xxx
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Thanks for the big smile this post gave me! Gorgeous photos and a beautiful haiku. Congratulations my friend..
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Thank you so much for your kind words dear Julie! 🤗💖🦋 xxx
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You write haiku and photograph nature so beautifully. This is perfect.
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Thank you so much for your kind words dear Helen 🤗💖🦋 xxx
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