Me: I claim this rose as mine
Friend: Yeah? Why?
Me: Because June is my birth month, and June’s flower is the rose
Friend: Mmm. Fine, I can get with that. But that makes you a Gemini, forever young, so a bud would be more fitting
Me: But I’m not young. I unfurled my petals long ago. I’ve seen life. I’ve lived life. Now, like this rose, I am relaxed. Confident. Poised. Thus, that rose is mine.
Every Wednesday I’ll post FOUR photos (if you want to get a head start you’ll find them marked in that week’s Sunday Picture Post and Tuesday Treats). Lots of choice!
And here they are:
You respond with something CREATIVE. Perhaps an answering photo, or micro-fiction, or a poem, or just a caption
As before, there are only two criteria:
!!!!! Your creative offering is indeed yours !!!!!
!!!!! Your writing is kept to 150 words or less !!!!!
If you post a link in the comments section of this post I’ll be able to find it.
Here’s wishing you inspirational explosions. And FUN
More more more photos from our walk on 27th May 2026. Enjoy!!!
27th May 2026
🔼 A wonderful thistle, standing proud amongst the fen grasses
27th May 2026
🔼 Red campion, entangled with the grasses 🔽 Ragged robin, bravely standing clear of the grass around it
27th May 2026
27th May 2026
🔼 I offer no apology for the photos of Dame’s Violet. I love that colour 🔽
27th May 2026
27th May 2026
🔼 Waterside plants, yellow flag. And not all blue flowers are forget-me-not. The darker blue are brooklime, a species of speedwell 🔽
27th May 2026
27th May 2026
🔼 Dog roses in abundance 🔽⏬
27th May 2026
27th May 2026
27th May 2026
🔼 Grass is a flowering plant. See all that pollen. Oops, a-cho!🔽
27th May 2026
That’s all for today, my friends. Don’t forget to check out Friday Flyers.
27th May 2026 and the weather’s getting uncomfortably hot. So we pick a walk that’s going to be short. Although having to travel half-way across county does make for a full day out. We’re going to a water-meadow on the outskirts of Dereham. So let’s hop on that bus! Please come with us…
27th May 2026
🔼To reach the fen needs a short walk through town – where I see, in a barber’s window, these great guys. Thinking of this week’s Creative Challenge, I can’t walk past and not take a photo! 🔽 Almost there, and close to Dereham church is Bishop Bonner’s house, now a museum. Bonner, better known as Bloody Bonner, was a staunch Catholic during the period of persecution of Protestants, but the museum is a celebration of local history and archaeology
27th May 2026
27th May 2026
🔼 The unique vegetation of a fen-meadow. Not for straying willy-nilly, it’s a bit squelchy underfoot. But well-kept paths ensure walkers’ feet stay dry 🔽 An example of the typical plant community, and a hint of the challenge that presents the photographer
27th May 2026
27th May 2026
🔼 Time was when water meadows were deliberately flooded to ensure sweet grazing grasses in the summer. Those same channels now drain the fen so we keen walkers can remain dry shod! 🔽 They also encourage the water-loving plants
27th May 2026
27th May 2026
🔼 Not all is soggy fen. Here are areas of woodland, some old and, like these oaks, some young
27th May 2026
🔼 The dog rose isn’t fussy about where she plants her feet, and when trees block her light she’ll scramble past the obstruction 🔽
27th May 2026
27th May 2026
🔼 Nature’s gardener has a preference for mixed planting! Here’s Garlic Mustard (flowers done, now leaves begin to lose their green and turn to beige), Dame’s Violet, Forget-me-nots and buttercups 🔽
27th May 2026
27th May 2026
🔼 More of those meadows, focusing on the grasses and the trees that hug this land, providing homes for birds and to keep the town at bay 🔽
27th May 2026
And that, my friends, is all for now. We’re heading back to town for a light bite lunch, then the bus back to the coast. Hope you enjoyed. More photos in Tuesday Treats. And this week we again have Friday Flyers!
Image credit: Alexander Lesnitsky via Pixabay
Shunamn tapped his fingers
Each one turned down as he counted
It was the Alsime way
Detah snorted
The granary’s way was quicker
Easier
Huh, an abacus would have been even easier and quicker
But Detah lived in the Western Bronze Age
No contact with the Far Eastern Cultures
Yet
50 words for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Abacus
Inspired by and based upon my wip, Saramequai
A few more photos that overflowed from Tuesday’s post. Theme: Wings! Enjoy
18th May 2026
From the top, from big fliers to little fliers we have 🔼 Mute Swan 🔽 Canadian Geese
18th May 2026
18th May 2026
🔼 Egyptian/Spectacle Goose 🔽 Song Thrush
18th May 2026
18th May 2026
🔼 Painted Lady 🔽 Female Common Blue Damselfly
18th May 2026
🔽 And the final, itsy-bitsy one, Red headed Cardinal Beetle
18th May 2026
Hope you liked them. We’re not seeing many butterflies at the moment but I’m sure they’ll soon start flashing their wings at us!
Look!
Look at me
This evil old crow
Sitting bold as brass in this field of gold
Here to bid you cleanse your eyes
See the reality
I am no dastardly fiend
I am your friend
It’s true, the crow is a scavenger, picking over corpses. Not nice to our C21st refined sensibilities. But what’s nastier is to come upon the rotting fly and maggot infested remains of a deceased mouse while out for a Sunday stroll. That offends our sensibilities even more. I hear you go, ‘Err!’ and ‘Ew!’ So treat more kindly with the crow.
Every Wednesday I’ll post FOUR photos (if you want to get a head start you’ll find them marked in that week’s Sunday Picture Post and Tuesday Treats). Lots of choice!
And here they are:
You respond with something CREATIVE. Perhaps an answering photo, or micro-fiction, or a poem, or just a caption
As before, there are only two criteria:
!!!!! Your creative offering is indeed yours !!!!!
!!!!! Your writing is kept to 150 words or less !!!!!
If you post a link in the comments section of this post I’ll be able to find it.
Here’s wishing you inspirational explosions. And FUN
A few extra photos from our walk, not on the ‘last of May’ but on 18th May 2026. Enjoy
18th May 2026
🔼 Daisies finding a foothold on a bridge parapet 🔽 We always look to see what cattle are in this pasture
18th May 2026
18th May 2026
Roses 🔼 Dog roses, wild and wonderful 🔽 Garden roses have a certain charm around a cottage window
18th May 2026
18th May 2026
🔼 One of the many Cranesbill 🔽 One of the many Trefoils (aka Eggs and Bacon)
18th May 2026
18th May 2026
The Campions 🔼 White 🔽 Pink ⏬ Ragged Robin
18th May 2026
18th May 2026
18th May 2026
Some flowers hug the waterside 🔼 notably Buttercups 🔽 Brooklime and…
18th May 2026
18th May 2026
🔼 and Yellow Flags 🔽
18th May 2026
18th May 2026 and how the weather forecasters do rile us. It’s going to rain, it’s not going to rain, it’s going to rain. Rain or not we hop a bus into Norwich and walk the lane to Whitlingham Country Park. We’ll take shelter if it rains. Join us.
18th May 2026
🔼 What I like about Whitlingham is it’s usually dry under foot! This paved walk is lined with golden buttercups. 🔽 And everywhere, yellow flags edge the water
18th May 2026
🔽 But with the unsettled weather forecast, we’re keeping an eye on that sky!
18th May 2026
18th May 2026
🔼 As far as I know, these churchy-looking ruins were once the summer residence of the bishop of Norwich. Certainly the bishop did have a summer residence here, where he and his cohorts escaped the nasty miasmas of summers in the city 🔽 But back in those medieval days this lake did not exist. Here was a great grazing marsh. This lake was formed when gravel/aggregates were quarried for use in the making of the Norwich Southern Bypass. The adjacent River Yare then filled the hole and pretty soon the swans appeared
18th May 2026
18th May 2026
🔼 These Egyptian geese (aka Spectacle geese) are obeying the ‘Rule of Three 🔽 Or are they keeping an eye on the weather? ⏬ Just look at those clouds rolling in
18th May 2026
🔽 !!!
18th May 2026
18th May 2026
🔼 Yellow Flags. Have I said I love Yellow Flags. Well, in case I haven’t, I’ll say it now. I love Yellow Flags!!! 🔽 With the sky clouding over we take a detour through the woods… ⏬ and back out again
18th May 2026
18th May 2026
🔽 So many trees here but this is maybe my favourite. Gnarly!
18th May 2026
Alas, that’s all for now, folks. And where are we off to next week?
crispina kemp 