Xenia Tran's Blog

We are taking a short blogging break to enjoy the current fine weather and will be back on Wednesday 22 October 2025. Wishing you all a wonderful Wednesday and a peaceful rest of the week, with love from Xenia and Bria xxx Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr. Wordless Wednesday Xingfu Mama’s Whatsoever is … Continue reading "Wordless Wednesday: Sweet October"

Loch an Eilein

Loch Millbuie

This week, John at Lens-Artists is revisiting an earlier theme of the series and invites us to share images of Autumn. The colours on the leaves are only just beginning to change here, yet on the cliffs you can really see we’re entering a different season. Gone are the green grasses, the bright yellow gorse … Continue reading "Autumn Colours of the North East"

Cairngorms National Park

As the peak of Shiehallion slowly emerges from the clouds, we are so grateful we were able to climb two-thirds of her eastern slope twice this Summer after climbing it many times before in my imagination. Wishing you all a blessed Sunday and a peaceful new week, with love from Xenia xxx Photographs by Xenia … Continue reading "Silent Sunday: Our Friend the Mountain"

Cairngorms National Park

This week, Egídio at Lens-Artists invites us to explore the concept of saudade, a Portuguese word most often translated as longing. We long for peace in the world and to head out with our backpack to the natural places that symbolise peace for us. These seem to be the places where Bria leads the way, … Continue reading "Peace in Our Heart"

I am deeply honoured and delighted to have some of my haiku included in The Haiku Foundation’s Haiku Registry: … and in The Living Haiku Anthology: With warm-hearted thanks to Marta Chocilowska at the Haiku Foundation and to Don Baird and Stephen Bailey at The Living Haiku Anthology for including my work and allowing my … Continue reading "Haiku Registry and Living Haiku Anthology"

Shiehallion