The blue flowers (with pink buds) above are Viper’s Bugloss, which the bees especially love, and the purple flower is Corncockle. You can see more wildflowers in our recent posts Wonderful World, Happy Reunion and Nature’s Mandalas.
Wishing you all a wonderful Wednesday,
with love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Cee’s Flower of the Day
Friendly Friday Challenge: Wildflowers
Cornflower
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with love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Cee’s Flower of the Day
CMMC July: Close-up or Macro
Wishing you all a blessed Sunday and a peaceful week ahead,
with love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Cee’s Flower of the Day
Word of the Day Challenge: Reunion
Cairngorms National Park
Wishing you all a wonderful Sunday and a peaceful week ahead,
with love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Settings: f/1.8 – 1/1250 s – ISO 125, f/6.3 – 1/1250 s – ISO 720, f/5 – 1/1250 s – ISO 200 and f/2.8 – 1/1250 s – ISO 125.
Lens-Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #150: Let’s Get Wild
(Frank Bruce 1931 – 2009)
your words fade from
the headstone, the way you
returned to nature in this life
and after you join the stars
~ we sit with your presence ~
still lingering between
the Lesser Celandine
that point towards the light
you always followed
© Xenia Tran
This is my first attempt at writing a puente poem.
Wishing you all a peaceful Wednesday,
with love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Settings: f/1.8 – 1/2000 s – ISO 640, f/1.8 – 1/4000 s – ISO 640 and f/1.8 – 1/4000 s – ISO 100.
Puente is a modern poetry form created by James Rasmusson. The first stanza develops one aspect of a topic where you, line by line, work towards another aspect. The centre line is delineated by a tilde (~) and functions as a bridge that forms a couplet with both the last line of the first stanza and the first line of the second stanza. You can choose any number of lines, as long as the first stanza has the same number of lines as the second stanza. You can find more information about the form here.
dVerse Poetics: Build a Bridge
Word of the Day Challenge: Enable
Placing Poems is an online, interactive map that shares poems about new and imagined journeys away from the stifling reality of the pandemic. We are delighted that this poem now appears on this map. If you visit the Placing Poems website and select The Map, you can scroll up to the Scottish Highlands and find it under Cairngorms, Feshie Bridge, alongside many other poignant poems.
Wishing you all a blessed Sunday and a peaceful new week,
with love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Cee’s Flower of the Day
Rag Tag Daily Prompt: Design
angelica sylvestris
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with love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Camera: Canon Powershot SX60 HS, Settings: f/5.6 – 1/125 s – ISO 160, f/6.3 – 1/160 s – ISO 200 and f/5.6 – 1/320 s – ISO 400.
Cee’s Flower of the Day
side by side
letting each other be
the frog and I
his eyes a lake of gold
high up in the mountains
© Xenia Tran
Wishing you all a wonderful Tuesday,
with love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Camera: Panasonic Lumix FZ200, Settings: f/2.8 – 1/125 s – ISO 100 and f/2.8 – 1/320 s – ISO 100.
Sunday Stills: Close Up
Rag Tag Daily Prompt: Spacious
Wishing you all a wonderful Wednesday,
with love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Camera: Panasonic Lumix FZ200, Settings: f/4 – 1/200 s – ISO 100, f/3.5 – 1/200 s – ISO 100 and f/3.5 – 1/250 s – ISO 100.
Cee’s Flower of the Day
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