first light
a surfer tries his luck
on the waves
© Xenia Tran
Wishing you all a wonderful Wednesday,
with love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Jez Braithwaite’s Water Water Everywhere #130
Rag Tag Daily Prompt: Achievement
Rock Peony
If anyone knows the name of these flowers I would love to hear! The blooms are the size of large oriental poppies and grow on a shrub with small green leaves.
UPDATE: Thanks to Cathy, Cee and Eliza we have discovered it is a Rock Peony.
Wishing you all a wonderful Wednesday,
with love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Cee’s Flower of the Day
The first gorse is in bloom and its warm scent of coconut and vanilla greets us as we follow the path across the moor. The rookery at Leanach Cottage is full of rooks and hooded crows. I wonder about the music the men who rest would have danced to and all their loved ones, who wanted to keep them safe.
ancient battleground –
the place where men fell
brimming with life
pilgrims and progeny
hear a skylark sing
© Xenia Tran
This is another poem from a series I wrote at Culloden Battlefield during my visits in February and April. You can read two earlier poems here and here.
Wishing you all a wonderful Wednesday,
with love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Your Daily Word Prompt: Elude
It is lovely to see that six cygnets have hatched two days ago. The pen (mama swan) is still on the nest with three of her cygnets by her side (one out of view), whilst the cob (papa swan) is showing the other three where the best feeding places are.
We do not know how many eggs have not hatched yet and the parents are taking it in turns to sit on them and take their cygnets for a swim and feed.
Wishing you a blessed Sunday and a peaceful new week,
with love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Spillwords.com presents: Kindness Glitters, poetry by Xenia Tran, artist & photographer who lives and works in the Scottish Highlands.
Source: Kindness Glitters, poetry by Xenia Tran at Spillwords.com
I am deeply honoured and delighted that my poem Kindness Glitters was published on Spillwords earlier today.
A warm-hearted thank you to Dagmara K and the Spillwords team for selecting and featuring my poem here.
Wishing you all a happy Saturday and a wonderful weekend,
with love from Xenia xxx
Wishing you all a wonderful Wednesday,
with love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr
Cee’s Flower of the Day
Wishing you all a blessed Sunday and a peaceful new week,
with love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Lens-Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #198: Light and Shadow
Wishing you all a wonderful Wednesday,
with love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Cee’s Flower of the Day
CMMC: May Close up or Macro
here – the silenced
still speak
war graves
© Xenia Tran
The Asahi Shimbun, 29 April 2022
Some of the wreaths and flowers from the 276th anniversary of the Battle of Culloden, which took place on 16 April 1746.
Wishing you all a peaceful Sunday,
with love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Lens-Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #197: Rule of Thirds
Wishing you all a peaceful Wednesday,
with love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
CFFC: Edges and Ledges
Tranature 
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