Silent Sunday: A Twist of Magic

a young toad crawling over moss towards the edge of the loch
a young toad crawling over moss and roots of heather towards the edge of the loch
a young toad swimming in the shallows of the loch

Wishing you all a blessed Sunday and a peaceful new week,

with love from Xenia xxx

Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.

Silent Sunday

Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge: Twisted

Silent Sunday: A Change in the Air

Cairngorms National Park

pine and leafless birch on a hill above the loch
a border collie on the edge of a loch looking across the water
ancient pine beside Loch an Eilein

Wishing you all a blessed Sunday and a peaceful new week,

with love from Xenia and Bria xxx

Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.

Silent Sunday

Becca’s Sunday Trees #532

Word of the Day Challenge: Change

Silent Sunday: Bliss in Motion

Cairngorms National Park

a smiling border collie climbing up the bank of the loch shore
reeds blowing in the breeze on a shimmering loch
wind rippling the water of Lochan Mor in early Spring

Wishing you all a blessed Sunday and for those of you who celebrate, a Happy Easter Holiday too.

With love from Xenia and Bria xxx

Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.

Silent Sunday

Becca’s Sunday Trees #527

Lens-Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #293: Water in Motion

Postcard from a Friend

Cairngorms National Park

We received a lovely surprise in the post from fellow blogger and haiku friend Andy Dugas, also known as Haiku Andy.

Every day, Andy writes a haiku and publishes it via social media. He then inscribes the same haiku on a single postcard and mails it to someone in the world.

He started this project as a way to expand his daily haiku practice.

If you want to read more inspiring haiku by Andy and/or would like to receive a postcard yourself, please visit his wonderful blog at Haiku Andy.

a haiku postcard from Haiku Andy

Thank you for your beautiful haiku Andy!

a lochan surrounded by pine trees in the spring sun

Wishing you all a wonderful Wednesday and a peaceful rest of the week,

with love from Xenia and Bria xxx

Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.

Xingfu Mama’s Whatsoever is Lovely Challenge 2024 Week 12

CMMC: March Alphabet – An A or E in a Word
(Postcard, Friend, Border Collie, Bria, Forest, Trees, Lochan, Water, Mountain)

Tanka: Spring Sun

Cairngorms National Park

top of the mountain seen above the tree tops

spring sun –
her light in cumuli
still on the mountain
a man chants Buddha’s name
among eternal snow

© Xenia Tran

Ribbons, Spring/Summer 2023: Volume 19, Number 2

close up of the top of a mountain with a few lingering snow fields

Wishing you all a wonderful Wednesday and a peaceful rest of the week,

with love from Xenia and Bria xxx

Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.

Xingfu Mama’s Whatsoever is Lovely Challenge 2024 Week 10

CFFC: Interesting Perspectives

Silent Sunday: Thanking the Mother Tree

Cairngorms National Park

an ancient pine surrounded by younger trees
a loch surrounded by pine trees and heather in the winter sun

Wishing you all a blessed Sunday and a peaceful new week,

with love from Xenia and Bria xxx

Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.

Silent Sunday

Becca’s Sunday Trees #524

Lens-Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #290: Circular Wonders

Silent Sunday: Sacred Pine

Cairngorms National Park

a mountain stream running through an ancient pine forest
pine and heather in an ancient pine forest

Wishing you all a blessed Sunday and a peaceful new week,

with love from Xenia and Bria xxx

Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.

Silent Sunday

Sunday Trees

Tanka: Lochan Uaine

Cairngorms National Park

a border collie striding out above Lochan Uaine

Lochan Uaine –
heavy rain swallowed
our beach
from new angles we see
how wind ripples the water

© Xenia Tran

Lochan Uaine seen from above through the trees

Wishing you all a wonderful Wednesday and a peaceful rest of the week,

with love from Xenia and Bria xxx

Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.

Xingfu Mama’s Whatsoever is Lovely Challenge 2024 Week 7

Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge: Inspiration

CMMC: February Pick a Topic from my Photo (Water, Green, Brown, White)

Tanka: Loch an Eilein Castle

Cairngorms National Park

a smiling border collie striding out beside an ancient pine

a glimpse
of castle ruins
in a frozen loch
once worn and not forgotten
this cloak of heroes

© Xenia Tran

a view of the castle ruins and trees on the island in a frozen Loch an Eilein

Wishing you all a wonderful Wednesday and a peaceful rest of the week,

with love from Xenia and Bria xxx

Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.

Xingfu Mama’s Whatsoever is Lovely Challenge 2024 Week 3

Rag Tag Daily Prompt: Worn

Silent Sunday: Ice on the Loch

Cairngorms National Park

Loch an Eilein in the winter sun with part of the loch still frozen
Loch an Eilein in the winter sun zooming in on the part of the loch that is frozen

Wishing you all a blessed Sunday and a peaceful new week,

with love from Xenia xxx

Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.

Silent Sunday

Sunday Trees