Wishing you all a blessed Sunday and a peaceful new week,
with love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Rag Tag Daily Prompt: Horn
Silent Sunday: Moorland Grazing
Tag: RDP
Haiku: For Ancestors and Progeny
Culloden Battlefield
Culloden Moor –
the grass beside the bench
a paler green
© Xenia Tran
The Asahi Shimbun, 15 April 2022
Wishing you a blessed Sunday, and to all of you who celebrate, a blessed Easter too.
With love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Rag Tag Daily Prompt: Observance
Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge: Short
Wordless Wednesday: Catkins
Wishing you all a wonderful Wednesday,
with love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Rag Tag Daily Prompt: Residue
CMMC: April Close Up or Macro
Wordless Wednesday: A Splendid Day for Ducks
Wishing you all a wonderful Wednesday,
with love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Rag Tag Daily Prompt: Versatile
CMMC: March Alphabet – Letter D at the Beginning or End of a Word
Haiku: Cullen Skink
Cullen skink and stovies
a lunch-time line forms
in the rain
© Xenia Tran
The Asahi Shimbun, 18 February 2022
Cullen Skink is a popular fish soup along the Moray coast, where it is served in many restaurants, cafés and takeaways. Seeing people wait in line outside a takeaway inspired the above haiku.
This traditional Scottish soup originated in Cullen, a town that has featured a few times on this blog, most recently in January’s post Seatown.
It is an easy dish to prepare yourself. Some people use onion, we prefer leek. Some people use mashed potato with cream, we prefer cubed potato, steamed in their skin.
Ingredients:
Organic leek, organic potato, smoked haddock, milk, parsley (or lovage).
Method:
Wash, peel and chop the leek, wash and cube the potatoes. Steam the potatoes for approximately 15 minutes, the leek for 10 minutes.
In a separate saucepan, poach the smoked haddock in semi-skimmed milk for five minutes. Remove the haddock with a strainer and transfer it onto a plate. When the fish is cool enough to touch, flake it into large pieces, removing any bones, and return it to the milk in the pan.
Add the steamed potato and leek to the milk and haddock and heat together for another five minutes. Serve and garnish with fresh parsley et voilà – you have a simple, wholesome dish for any occasion.
Wishing you all a blessed Sunday and a peaceful week ahead,
with love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Thank you Cee for honouring us with this post as a CMMC Featured Blogger!
CMMC: Close-Up or Macro
Rag Tag Daily Prompt: Wholesome
Word of the Day Challenge: Occasion
Wordless Wednesday: Surprised by the Surf
Wishing you all a wonderful Wednesday,
with love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Rag Tag Daily Prompt: Perplexed
Wordless Wednesday: Solstice Sunset
After a few overcast days, the sunset of our shortest day was filled with light and made for a scintillating Winter Solstice.
We are now taking a short blogging break and will be back on Wednesday 29th December 2021.
Wishing you all a blessed week and for those of you who celebrate, a blessed Christmas too!
With love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Rag Tag Daily Prompt: Scintillate
CMMC: Pick a Topic from my Photo (Blue, Brown, Texture)
Wordless Wednesday: Magic Awakening
Cairngorms National Park
Silent Sunday: Tranquil Sea
Wishing you all a blessed Easter,
with love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Settings: f/1.8 – 1/800 s – ISO 100, f/1.8 – 1/400 s – ISO 100 and f/1.8 – 1/320 s – ISO 100.
Lens-Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #142 : You Pick It (Sunset)
Rag Tag Daily Prompt: Tranquil
Silent Sunday: Happy Homecoming
Wishing you all a blessed Sunday and a peaceful week ahead,
with love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Camera: Canon Powershot SX60 HS, Settings: f/5 – 1/200 s – ISO 100 and f/5.6 – 1/250 s – ISO 250.
Rag Tag Daily Prompt: Homecoming
Tranature 
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