Xenia Tran's Blog

on the horizonwhere earth beginsmy heart singswhen we kissbirds fly off to sea © Xenia Tran The above images were taken one beautiful autumn day while walking on our favourite beach. Wishing you all a blessed Sunday and a peaceful new week, with love from Xenia xxx Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr. Weekly … Continue reading "Tanka: On the Horizon"

sunrise …a whole new worldby the window © Xenia Tran We are deeply honoured and delighted that my haiku First Light, first published in Autumn Moon Haiku Journal 7:2, Spring/Summer 2024, has been included in Gingko Gold, Haiku Society of America Members’ Anthology 2025: With warm-hearted thanks to Nicky Gutierrez for selecting my poem and … Continue reading "Haiku: Sunrise"

Ossian's Hall

in the cornerof a weekday eveningclumps of grass © Xenia Tran We are honoured and delighted, for our Dutch-speaking readers, that my haiku Ochtendzon has been published in the 2026 Haiku-kantelkalender. Copies can be ordered from Haiku Centrum Vlaanderen. Wishing you all a wonderful Wednesday and a peaceful rest of the week, with love from … Continue reading "Haiku: In the Corner"

Some images from one of our epic long summer walks, featuring one of the remotest railway stations in Scotland. Wishing you all a blessed Sunday and a peaceful new week, with love from Xenia xxx Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr. Silent Sunday Becca’s Sunday Trees #612 Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge: Epic Lens-Artists Weekly … Continue reading "Silent Sunday: Rannoch Station"

Cairngorms National Park

This week, Egídio at Lens-Artists invites us to revisit their challenge from 2019 of landscapes … … and Becca Givens of On Dragonfly Wings with Buttercup Tea is celebrating her 14-year anniversary of hosting Sunday Trees … … so we thought we share some images from our recent blogging break when we revisited the famous … Continue reading "A Return Visit to the Birnam Oak"

River Tay

The Hermitage

Cairngorms National Park