Wishing you all a blessed Sunday and a peaceful week ahead,
with love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Settings: f/6.3 – 1/160 s – ISO 100, f/6.3 – 1/640 s – ISO 100 and f/6.3 – 1/250 s – ISO 100.
Lens-Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #143: Colorful April
Cee’s Flower of the Day
Following on from our earlier post Swan Love, the cob (male swan) is building the nest whilst the pen (female swan) is feeding on extra minerals in the river below.
We wish you all a wonderful Wednesday and a peaceful rest of the week,
with love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Settings: f/6.3 – 1/1000 s – ISO 200 and f/5 – 1/400 s – ISO 200.
The last cygnet has finally fledged and the swan pair are busy bonding and mating on the windswept river.
Wishing you all a blessed Sunday and a peaceful week ahead,
with love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Settings: f/6.5 – 1/200 s – ISO 100, f/5.6 – 1/1000 s – ISO 400 and f/5.6 – 1/250 s – ISO 100.
CFFC: Birds of all Kinds
Your Daily Word Prompt: Overture
We are taking a short blogging break and will be back on
Wednesday 24th March.
Wishing you all a Happy Saint Patrick’s Day and a wonderful week ahead,
with love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Settings: f/3.5 – 1/250 s – ISO 100, f/3.5 – 1-400 s – ISO 100 and f/3.5 – 1/500 s – ISO 100.
Cee’s Flower of the Day
CFFC: (Pail or) Pale
Waking from their afternoon nap the swans and cygnets enjoy a preen and feed in the shallows of the river.
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/5.6 – 1/320 s – ISO 125, f/5.6 – 1/400 s – ISO 200 and f/5.6 – 1/400 s – ISO 160.
Jez Braithwaite’s Water Water Everywhere #31
Rag Tag Daily Prompt: Siesta
The clean air during the lockdown is helping the fruits in our garden grow better than ever.
Wishing you all a wonderful Wednesday and may you stay safe and well,
with love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Camera: Lumix Panasonic FZ200, Settings: f/3.5 – 1/2000 s – ISO 100 and f/3.5 – 1/1250 s – ISO 100.
Cee’s Flower of the Day
Word of the Day Challenge: Golden
Wishing you all a peaceful Wednesday,
with love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Camera: Panasonic Lumix FZ200, Settings: f/3.2 – 1/250 s – ISO 100, f/3.2 – 1/320 s – ISO 100 and f/3.2 – 1/500 s – ISO 100.
Cee’s Flower of the Day
cherry blossom
going with the flow
of our new normal
© Xenia Tran
This haiku was first published in Haiku Dialogue: Haiku Prism – Pink, Troutswirl, The Haiku Foundation Blog, 29 April 2020. A very big thank you to guest editor Tia Haynes and post manager Lori Zajkowski for featuring my poem and putting this beautiful edition together.
Wishing you all a wonderful Wednesday and may you stay safe and well,
with love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Camera: Canon Powershot SX60 HS, Settings: f/6.5 – 1/1000 s – ISO 125, f/6.5 – 1/1000 s – ISO 200 and f/5.6 – 1/800 s – ISO 100.
Frank J Tassone’s Weekly Haikai Challenge #136: Late Cherry Blossom
Discover Prompt #22: Tempo
Cee’s Flower of the Day
A further selection of recent publications in online and print journals can be found here:
We are delighted to see seven cygnets have hatched by the pond and are lovingly cared for by their parents.
The eggs from the river swans didn’t hatch this year. The pen and cob have been mating again last week and there is a very small chance of more eggs to come.
In 2017 their eggs didn’t hatch either and they fostered a cygnet from another swan family. We will share photographs of the river swans throughout the year and follow the progress of the pond cygnets as they grow older.
Wishing you all a magical Sunday,
with love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Camera: Canon Powershot SX60 HS, Settings: f/5.6 – 1/250 s – ISO 200 and f/5.6 – 1/400 s – ISO 200.
Rag Tag Daily Prompt: Surprise
Raven’s Rock Gorge
With love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Camera: Panasonic Lumix FZ200, Settings: f/3.2 – 1/250 s – ISO 100 and f/3.2 – 1/400 s – ISO 100.
XinfuMama’s Pull up a Seat Challenge 2019 Week 20
Your Daily Word Prompt: Nostalgic
