Haiku: Queen Bee

close up of a honey bee feeding on lavender

queen bee –
in spring’s waters
a new humming

© Xenia Tran

The Asahi Shimbun, 5 May 2023

purple lavender in bloom

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

with love from Xenia xxx

Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.

Cee’s Flower of the Day

CMMC: May Color – Imperial Purple

Haiku: Double Daffodils

macro shot of double daffodils with raindrops

double daffodils –
the shape of a journey
in the rain

© Xenia Tran

macro shot of raindrops on and within a double daffodil

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

with love from Xenia xxx

Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.

Cee’s Flower of the Day – Double Daffodil

CMMC: April – Pick a Topic from my Photo (Flowers)

Wordless Wednesday: Small Blue Wonders

Close up of Anemone Blanda Blue with raindrops
Scilla siberica after a rain shower
Glory of the Snow in the sun after a rain shower

It was a treat to see Grecian Windflower (Anemone Blanda Blue), Siberian Squill (Scilla siberica) and Glory of the Snow (Chionodoxa Forbesii) glowing in the sun after a heavy rain shower.

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

with love from Xenia xxx

Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.

Wordless Wednesday

Lens-Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #244: Glowing Moments

CFFC: Anything Small

Cee’s Flower of the Day

Wordless Wednesday: White-Tailed Bumblebee

close up of a bumblebee hovering near flowering currant
close up of a bumblebee feeding on flowering currant

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

with love from Xenia xxx

Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.

Wordless Wednesday

Cee’s Flower of the Day

CFFC: Found in Nature

CMMC: April Close Up or Macro

Tanka Sequence: Light in the Shadows

white crocus buds and leaves appearing through snow

grey walls
a grey polished floor
reflecting
our movements
the jangling keys

doors
opened and locked
by strangers
behind us a free world
turns grey and disappears

female prisoners
scan my face, my eyes
while being open
it is hard not to look
at what I can see

how blue
the light around the mother
who hurt
her child’s abuser
tears running down her cheeks

we talk and listen
to each prisoner’s song
first in rows
then in a circle
a pink light glows

© Xenia Tran

Ribbons, Winter 2023: Volume 19, Number 1

lilac white crocus buds appearing through snow
flowering currant lit up by the afternoon soon

More than twenty years ago, I ran a series of workshops in a women’s prison that linked the chakra system and its colours to meditation practice. The first session in this series inspired the above sequence.

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

with love from Xenia xxx

Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.

Cee’s Flower of the Day

Lens-Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #241: Spring

Weekly Prompts Midweek Challenge: Wait

Haiku: She Sparkles

Mathiola Incana Alba

close up of Mathiola Incana Alba


she sparkles
from the inside out
incana alba

© Xenia Tran

close up of Mathiola Incana Alba seen from above

May women all over the world always be free to sparkle and live their lives in peace.

To celebrate International Women’s Day, we’re sharing a video of the talented Danish trio Stundom, who recently performed their beautiful piece Stjerner i Par (stars in pairs) on BBC Alba:

We are taking a short blogging break and will be back on Wednesday 22 March 2023.

Wishing you all a peaceful week ahead,

with love from Xenia xxx

Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.

Lens-Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #239: Finding Peace

Cee’s Flower of the Day

Haiku: When Time Stops

a woodland trail towards the sea with small clusters of snowdrops

when time stops
towards the sea
snowdrops

© Xenia Tran

close up of snowdrops in the morning sun

Wishing you all a wonderful Wednesday,

with love from Xenia xxx

Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.

CFFC: Things People Visit

Cee’s Flower of the Day

Wordless Wednesday: Small Treasures

close up of a lilac crocus bud covered in small raindrops

Wishing you all a wonderful Wednesday,

with love from Xenia xxx

Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.

Wordless Wednesday

Cee’s Flower of the Day

Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge: Treasure

Haiku: Cherry Blossom Moon

close up of cherry blossoms in dappled light

cherry blossom
the whole of the moon
turns pink

© Xenia Tran

haikuKATHA Issue 10, August 2022

close up of cherry blossoms and buds in dappled light

With warm thanks to Terri Hale French for her invitation to create haiku incorporating a song title.

The song that inspired my haiku was The Whole of the Moon by The Waterboys:

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

with love from Xenia xxx

Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.

Cee’s Flower of the Day

Wordless Wednesday: Morning Glory

Calystegia silvatica

white morning glories in bloom on the banks of the river
close up of three white morning glories in bloom

Wishing you all a wonderful Wednesday,

with love from Xenia xxx

Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.

Wordless Wednesday

Cee’s Flower of the Day