With a flick of her wand, and a wink
She coloured the meadow pink
With a sneeze and a tease
She turned to purple the dull green trees
And over it all she cast a honey-dipped spell
That the meadow should have the sweetest smell
Satisfied she turned herself into a butterfly
And flew away
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 medley of photos of flowers seen on our walk down to the Yare on 15th June 2026. Enjoy
15th June 2026
🔼 Yes, it is a Potato flower. Very definitely a member of the nightshade family (in case you’ve ever doubted it) 🔽 Dog Rose, not sure what the red leaves are, but they make for an interesting photo
15th June 2026
15th June 2026
🔼 White Bryony. Love that twisting tendril. There’ll be plentiful (poisonous) red berries there in a few months time 🔽 Talking of berries… Sweet Cherry (Prunus avium)
15th June 2026
🔽 Bladder Campion. I love all the campions, but this is not so common
15th June 2026
Fen-Meadow Flowers…
15th June 2026
🔼 Common Spotted Orchid 🔽 Ragged Robin
15th June 2026
15th June 2026
🔼 Velvet Grass… has many other names 🔽 A true medley, too many to name
15th June 2026
15th June 2026
🔼 Common Meadow Rue 🔽 Purple Loosestrife…and bee
15th June 2026
🔽 Not actually a wetland plant, but it’s doing well here, almost rooted into the water: Valerian, and another bee
15th June 2026
That’s all for now, folks. Hope you enjoyed. And yes, there will be some ‘flyers’ on Friday. Not many, but some.
15th June 2026, forecast is for escalating heat so we need to make an early start. We’re heading to one of the many nature reserves between Norwich and the east coast, plus there’s another we’ll pass through along the way. The ‘way’ is downhill (mostly), into the valley of the Yare. We might find places soggy underfoot, best to wear waterproof shoes. Let’s go…
15th June 2026
🔼 A bus into Norwich and another bus out again, we hop off at Hellington, which is at the top of the ‘hill’. The first part of our walk is along rural lanes made white with hedge bindweed and ox-eyed daisies 🔽
15th June 2026
15th June 2026
🔼 Ah, poppies. I do love this season for the poppies that pop up everywhere 🔽 Across the fields we see Hellington church, but we don’t want to delay by visiting there today
15th June 2026
15th June 2026
🔼 Heading now to Rockland St Mary, and the Low Common which lies between the two villages 🔽 Rockland Low Common local nature reserve, and now you see what I mean by potential wet feet! This is wetland, this is fen, and there are no man-made drains to take the water away. But what I’m not showing are the plants that thrive here. I’ll give you a taste of those on Tuesday
15th June 2026
15th June 2026
🔼 Meadow Rue dominates the community 🔽 A gate that doesn’t close marks the end to Rockland’s small reserve
15th June 2026
🔽 We emerge into farmland… the photo is taken looking back towards the reserve
15th June 2026
🔽 Having skirted Rockland, it’s now down the hill we go, though it’s only when looking back that we realise the descent
15th June 2026
15th June 2026
🔼 The final destination, Wheatfen Reserve 🔽
15th June 2026
We had to cut our visit short because, clever me, wrenched my ankle while trying to get a better shot of a butterfly. Hobbling with a screaming ankle then weakened my knee and threw my hip out my balance. To try to walk further was not a good idea, even if possible. But how to get home? I couldn’t walk back to the bus stop. In an area with no phone signal, the reserve warden helped us get a taxi. A disappointment, but I’ve done the best with the photos I managed before that happened. Hope you enjoyed.
18th June 2026
King Henry’s Tower, built 1284 as part of Great Yarmouth’s town wall, the second most complete town wall in England. Clearly, this is H for History, my June choice for Maria’s Photo Challenge.
3rd November 2021
The tiniest thing I’d ever seen
A fairy, I don’t doubt
Cos when I stared hard
The truth won out
She was dust
A powder-filler
She was scintilla
28 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Scintilla
Butterflies and damsels from our walk on 10th June 2026. Enjoy
10th June 2026
🔼 Where else would you expect to find a Meadow Brown? 🔽
10th June 2026
🔽 Speckled Wood
10th June 2026
10th June 2026
🔼 Painted Lady on Breydon path 🔽
10th June 2026
10th June 2026
🔼 Tortoiseshell 🔽
10th June 2026
🔽 It’s a moth. I don’t know more that that
10th June 2026
10th June 2026
🔼 Southern Damselfly 🔽 Azure Damselfly
10th June 2026
🔽 A Buff-Tailed Bumble Bee enjoying a dab of mustard with its nectar!
10th June 2026
That’s all for this week. Hope you liked
Beatrice held out her hand, as defiant as a traffic cop. “I don’t care if you are my husband, you’re not coming near me nor my bed till you find us a proper house.”
Two babies she’d lost, living in this wooden box on wheels.
“But, Beatty, I’m a horse dealer,” her husband said, all reasonable and logical-sounding. “I need to travel to the horse fayres.”
“You need to. I don’t.” She restated her demands, “You’re not getting any more children on me till we’ve a proper house.”
So, yes, he bought a proper house. In fact, he bought a farm where he bred his horses and set up a riding school.
True story? It’s the way my grandma told it, so I guess so.
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 miscellany of photos taken on our walk around Burgh Castle and Breydon Water on 10th June 2026. Enjoy
10th June 2026
🔼 A Roman wall, doubtless made with local hands, and certainly with local flint. But as for the mortar, Roman mortar was amazingly resilient to the effects of weathering 🔽 Berney Arms windmill, built in 1865 to grind chalk quarried from Whitlingham to make cement. It was converted to a drainage mill in 1883
10th June 2026
There follows flowers…
10th June 2026
🔼 One everyone knows, the wild rose, aka dog rose 🔽 but here’s one you might not know, broomrape, a parasitic plant; lacking chlorophyll it attaches to a host plant
10th June 2026
Before we hit Breydon Wall 🔽 A Little Egret fishes along the banks of the Waveney
10th June 2026
Flowers along Breydon bank…
10th June 2026
🔼 Black Mustard, looking quite compact. See next photo where the Mustard takes its more usual form 🔽 Poppies, poppies everywhere ⏬
10th June 2026
10th June 2026
🔼 Love the floral community along this estuarine path 🔽 Pepperwort, finished flowering, now putting out seeds
10th June 2026
🔽 And yes, that is a butterfly lending colour to the Alexanders’ seeds
10th June 2026
🔼 You know the water’s clean with it supports a wide range of plant life. Here we see Water Crowfoot
10th June 2026
🔽 Included because I love this photo. Former over-used, neglected and abused working horses run free 💖
10th June 2026
That’s all for now. See Friday Flyers for butterflies and damsels
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