Haiku: Salad Burnet

close up of salad burnet flower and seeds

salad burnet –
her seeds break loose
in the wind

© Xenia Tran

close up of salad burnet flower and seeds

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.

Sunday Stills: The Glowing Life of Plants

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: Weathered Wood

a memorial bench plaque with a poem by Linda-Anne Campbell

weathered wood
the memorial bench
still holds her poem

© Xenia Tran

Haiku Dialogue, The Haiku Foundation, 22 September 2021

weathered wooden memorial bench

Thank you again for all your good wishes before we went on our blogging break!

We had a relaxing time with beautiful walks in quiet areas (without a phone signal and limited internet) and hope you had a peaceful week too.

Wishing you a blessed Sunday and a happy week ahead,

with love from Xenia xxx

Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.

Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #168: Seen Better Days

Silent Sunday: The Changing Season

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

with love from Xenia xxx

Silent Sunday

Lens-Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #164: Looking Up/ Down

Wordless Wednesday: Spring Rain

close up of a red tulip with raindrops
a red tulip with raindrops surrounded by lily of the valley

Wishing you all a refreshing Wednesday,

with love from Xenia xxx

Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.

Settings: f/5 – 1/1600 s – ISO 3600, f/5 – 1/1600 s – ISO 2500 and f/5 – 1/1600 s – ISO 4000.

Wordless Wednesday

Word of the Day Challenge: Fresh

Cee’s Flower of the Day: Tulips

Silent Sunday: A New Dawn

an empty car park by the seaside with flowers and trees
a small wooden shed beside a garden wall by the seaside

Wishing you all a blessed Sunday and may you all stay safe and well,

with love from Xenia xxx

Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.

Camera: Panasonic Lumix FZ200, Settings: f/4.5 – 1/1250 s – ISO 100, f/4 – 1/800 s – ISO 100 and f/4 – 1/1000 s – ISO 100.

Silent Sunday

Lens-Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #93: Morning

Discover Prompt #18: New

Haiku: Fruits of Love

 

red currant blossom in Spring with green leaves

 

planting seeds
tending with soil, water, light
first blossoms

© Xenia Tran

 

blossoms on blackcurrant changing to young fruit

 

raindrops a mirror
when blossoms turn to fruit
a pheasant sings

© Xenia Tran

 

close up of cluster of green blackcurrant turning to red

 

a change of colour
blackcurrant fragrance
fills our bowls

© Xenia Tran

 

close up of small ripe blackcurrant cluster

With love from Xenia xxx

 

Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.

Camera: Panasonic Lumix FZ200, Settings: f/2.8, 1/250 s, ISO 100, f/2.8, 1/320 s, ISO 100, f/2.8, 1/125 s, ISO125 and f/4, 1/80 s, ISO 100.

 

Carpe Diem Summer Retreat 2018: Finding the Way

Dutch Goes the Photo Tuesday Photo Challenge: Row