Via Flixton Decoy, Flixton Marshes, Somerleyton, Ashby and Lound. 9th September 2020
Iconic Tree: 📷 09/09/2020
I know some of you have seen this iconic tree before. It’s not that it marks the start of the walk, though it does mark where we have to turn off ‘proper’ roads, just that I can’t resist it.
Sidney (so I’ve been told): 📷 09/09/2020
Last time here we were greeted by geese. This time by Sidney (at least, that’s what I’m told is his name)
Through the farmyard and down the track to the marsh: 📷 09/09/2020
Flixton Marshes: 📷 09/09/2020
Flat marshland isn’t the best of subjects. But I’m getting the knack. Look for something of interest, something vertical. A gate will do nicely.
Silver Birch, Ancient Mother of the Woodlands: 📷 09/09/2020
I’ve photographed this tree so many times. Birch and oak are the first colonisers of wasteland. This one sits proud atop an old estate boundary which probably doubled as flood defence.
Green dragonfly: 📷 09/09/2020
I’ll leave you to search for it. It is there…
A hill! 📷 09/09/2020
Amazing, I’m just over the border from “flat as a pancake” Norfolk. Yet here are hills. Those hills once were dunes grown out of beautiful white sandy shores.
The footpath: 📷 09/09/2020
Wending between the Waveney Valley and those Sand Hills is this path. This year it’s passable. It isn’t always, the nettles and brambles closing it over
A tree! 📷 09/09/2020
Although there are trees all along this path, it once forming a boundary, this one, in particular, caught my affections. It looks like a witch’s scrawny, craggy hand.
Large White Butterfly on a dandelion: 📷 09/09/2020
Since changing to the phone-camera I haven’t had much success with photographing butterflies. A combination of factors. I have a defective right eye (awaiting op) and I’m still getting used to the camera. But I’m pleased with this one cos cameras don’t like yellow and white when the sun’s full on them
White moth caught on spider’s web: 📷 09/09/2020
I know you can’t see the web, but it is there.
Single Track Road with Passing Places: 📷 09/09/2020
Typical road in this borderland
Somerleyton’s claim to fame: 📷 09/09/2020
A medusa of an oak-tree: 📷 09/09/2020
Approaching Hopton: 📷 09/09/2020
Heading towards Gt Yarmouth, the land flattens and the clouds gather in ominous darkness.
But it’s been a good day. Hope you enjoyed your 10-mile walk. I posted the photos of flowers and fungi from the walk last Tuesday.
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I more than enjoyed it. One day, you’ll have to take me on a physical tour!
And it took a while, but I did find the dragonfly
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Beautiful images, my friend
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Well done. I have to say, that phone-camera isn’t a touch on my canon for butterflies, dragons and damsels. Very disappointing,
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Ahhh. Not all phone cameras are created equal and no phone camera can be as good as a real one! But these images are nothing to dismiss!
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You are so kind. It’s working with the limitations. This phone-camera isn’t good on zoom. So this now I’ve learned. Yet if I get in close I can get good results.
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No. You’ve done well with the limitations. My previous phone sucked on zoom, too. This one I haven’t tested overly much yet.
You’re doing might fine!
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So long as I don’t want to zoom. A limitation of the Galaxy A10, so I’ve discovered on internet
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I have the Galaxy S10 and because of your comment, I did a test. I’ll send you it on HO to show you. It’s not fabulous but way better than my S8 was…
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I have received. You are right. And it’s better than my A10.
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🙂
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Funny I was just wondering the other day if they still have hovercrafts. I know my mother went on one years ago, but I never have….A very atmospheric walk, I kind of like the bleakness of the flat marshes but I also love that overgrown path – and Sidney of course!
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When I was in Weymouth in early 2000s the ferry to France was a hovercraft. More than that I cannot say.
It’s a great walk, with an ever-changing range of environments.
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I looked it up, the last place you can go to by hovercraft is the Isle of Wight apparently!
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Gosh. So what’re every other place else back to chug-along-ships?
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Apparently so…
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Wonder why?
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I love that photo of the butterfly. Very beautifully taken.
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You’re so kind. With the sun on white you tend to get blinkies. And yellow loses definition. So I had to play with the settings. New phone-camera, getting to know it. And the butterfly sat still, as if waiting for me. Only after I’d a few successful shots did it fly away. I thanked it
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I understand. I always find it difficult to take photographs of creatures, flying or crawling alike.
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hmm, I think you’ve mentioned that before. I was ok with the Canons, but I’m training myself to use the phone-camera and it’s not so easy. Also, this camera’s zoom isn’t… just isn’t. Frustrations. But we’ll get there.
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BTW, I’m good with snails!!!!
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Haha, I never knew how to take photos of creatures which capture their essence…LOL
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Start with snails. They’re easy
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Nice, I’ll start with them, after a rain. I know they come out in swarms near where I stay
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Yea, that usually brings them out. wish you well with it
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What a lovely long walk. Hi Sidney! I never see animals on my walk, except other people walking their dogs, or hearing a chicken in someone’s hidden backyard.
I especially like the dramatic first shot of the tree.
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We see a lot of farm animals. Geese in the farmyard, sheep, goats, horses, cattle, pgs, all out in the fields. See less of chickens. Ironic.
That tree, yea, there’s a story behind that, but I cannot share. Enough to say it touches me heart.
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That goat/ram looks like he has some personality.
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So I was informed by someone who knows him. 🙂
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The natural images are very pretty. And hi, Sidney!
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He’s beautiful isn’t he. Usually sheep will shy away. But he came to talk to me
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What a good boy
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I believe he has a good master. Though said master described him as naughty
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All these pictures are so immersive. Thanks for sharing!
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My pleasure. I love to walk. And I love the countryside through which I’m walking. And I love to show it off and to share it.
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