Let me paint this land of mine
Wash the sky with powder blue
Forbid existence to clouds anew
Mix a brave and earthy green
To stand for the most honest sturdy trees you’ve seen
Gild the fields in golden hues
Then, remember those puffy clouds? We’ll call back those
Daub them liberally around the edges
To underscore the hedges
Say now, if you will, is not the hand
Which created this land
Simply divine
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 !!!!!
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Here’s wishing you inspirational explosions. And FUN
A dozen or so additional photos from our walk on 8th May 2026 (see also Friday’s post!). Enjoy…
8th May 2026
🔼 Poppies by the water’s side 🔽 Who can resist this group of sheep!
8th May 2026
🔽 Can you spot the butterfly here? See Friday’s post for a closer look
8th May 2026
8th May 2026
🔼 We came upon this clump of pink campion 🔽
8th May 2026
🔽 The first blackberry-bramble flowers I’ve seen this year
8th May 2026
🔽 Red clover. Usually the bees are busy on this but not this day
8th May 2026
🔽 I’m no expert on grasses but I’m guessing this is a sedge. But there being so many species of sedge, I’m not going to say more than that
8th May 2026
🔽 Another plant with multiple species: Mouse-ear speckling the edge of the woods
8th May 2026
🔽 Quite a collection of plants here. At the centre is Herb Robert which has a small pink flower. As to the fern, I’m guessing that’s a Buckler fern, but which one, don’t know
8th May 2026
🔽 Vetch. Again, lots of species but I think I’m safe to say this is Common Vetch
8th May 2026
8th May 2026
🔼 And here, in wicked close-up, is the rapeseed plant which gives us canola oil 🔽
8th May 2026
That’s all for now, folks. Hope you enjoyed. Don’t miss Friday’s post for lots of various ‘flyers’
8th May 2026, the forecast is favourable with zero chance of rain, scarcely a breath of wind, and good visibility. That’s good, cos where we’re heading can be…wet. The Norfolk Broads are a network of rivers and lakes occupying the northeast corner of Norfolk (where I live). So let’s fill our water-flasks, tie our shoes and hop a bus to Acle, the self-named ‘gateway’. Enjoy…
8th May 2026
🔼 Our walk starts at Acle Boat Dyke where Broads’ cruisers line up like it’s the start of a race. 🔽 Never mind the boats, look at this poppy, shot through the wires of a fence
8th May 2026
8th May 2026
🔼 Lucky the person who lives here, surrounded by grazing pastures and reedbeds alive with the calls of warblers, rails and hungry ducklings 🔽 and with riverside frontage!
8th May 2026
🔽 When we hear chug-chug-chug it’s usually to annonce the approach of a Broads’ cruiser. I’m surprised to see this boat. Shooting through the reeds allow the occupants a degree of privacy!
8th May 2026
8th May 2026
🔼 Wet woodlands (locally known as carrs) abound in the Broads area. Some have foot-friendly paths, such as this one. 🔽 Seen through the woodland trees, a typical Broadland scene
8th May 2026
8th May 2026
🔼 We emerge from the woodland. Way in the distance is this former drainage mill, fuzzy with the increasing heat enticing mist to rise 🔽 As we leave the river and the woods, we’re very much aware of that increasing heat.
8th May 2026
8th May 2026
🔼 Last stage of the walk (back to Acle to catch a bus) 🔽 the footpath run (slogs?) through a rapeseed field. Those plants are taller than us, and there’s a definite incline to that path
8th May 2026
🔽 One more field and we’ll be back in Acle. The path through that last field is somewhat steeper than the one just walked, so I put the camera away to allow myself to give it my all.
8th May 2026
Hope you enjoyed our walk. Check out Tuesday’s and Friday’s posts for more photos
Image by Sunrise via Pixabay
My daughter says she’ll never wed
Never wants to share her bed
Rather she’d sleep in a ditch
Be accused of being a hedgerow witch
I said I understand
But does that include a woman as well as a man
I blame it on the night she was born
During a Halloween thunderstorm
53 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Thunderstorm
Don’t go to sleep
Open your eyes
Gold is falling from the sky
Pick a penny
Pick a dollar
You can sip of the nectar
But beware not to swallow
In my head I’m hearing this as a fairies’ chant
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 collection of photos from our walk on 29th April 2026. Enjoy…
29th April 2026
🔼 While some blossoms have bloomed and now are dying, others are just beginning to open 🔽 this holly is a joy to see!
29th April 2026
29th April 2026
Nature waves her yellow flowers to welcome the Spring 🔼 Here we have Broom, the ‘Plant-a-genet’ which a certain medieval family took as its badge and made it famous when they became kings 🔽 Buttercups glowing beside the water ⏬ Marsh marigolds hiding in the grasses
29th April 2026
29th April 2026
29th April 2026
🔼 I was looking forward to finding Wood Anemones. Alas, I found but one. Too late (how dare they not wait for me!!!) 🔽 I must content myself with Ramsons.
29th April 2026
29th April 2026
Bluebells 🔼 with Ramsons 🔽 with Dandelion ⏬ going solo!
29th April 2026
29th April 2026
🔽 Fumitory, a wayside plant often found along the edges of arable fields
29th April 2026
The flyers…
29th April 2026
🔼 I beg your forgiveness for the blurry head of this Jay. But what chance of a better focus when the bird hides behind leaves and the wind decides to gust just as I click 🔽 A female large red damselfly, majestically coloured
29th April 2026
29th April 2026
🔼 Orange tip 🔽 Red admiral, worse for wear having over-wintered
29th April 2026
🔽 Of all the photos I’ve taken of Holly blues, this is only the second I’ve caught it on a holly leaf!
29th April 2026
That’s all for now, folks. A different environment next week with different subjects to attract my lens. Join me then
29th April 2026 and the day dawns with exceptional promise. We hop on a bus to Norwich, and another to take us to the outskirts. Our ultimate destination is Green Hills Wood, in Costessey, but first we’re going to take a look at Costessey Ponds which lies to the side of Marriott’s Way. So, do up your laces, and let’s go…
29th April 2026
🔼 The first photo of the day, and what a glorious day it is 🔽 Hawthorn, aka May, last of the Spring blossoms is now gracing the hedgerows. Beautiful
29th April 2026
29th April 2026
🔼 The tiny Tud. This is as big as it gets, just before it joins the Wensum on its way to Norwich. It’s a chalk-land stream and, as you can see, its waters are very clean 🔽
29th April 2026
29th April 2026
🔼 Nudging the bounds of Costessey are two delightful ponds, former gravel pits, fed by the Tud 🔽
29th April 2026
🔽 I remember the grounds around the ponds as straggling scrub with heathland profile. It has since matured into a pleasant woodland
29th April 2026
29th April 2026
🔼 We leave the ponds and head off to Green Hills Wood where the bluebells are in full bloom 🔽
29th April 2026
29th April 2026
🔼 Bluebells at Green Hills Woods 🔽⏬
29th April 2026
29th April 2026
It’s time to leave Costessey and return to Norwich for our lunch. While waiting for the bus the memories flood, for my old house is across the road, full in my face. Do I regret the move to the coast? Yes, and no.
More photos in Tuesdays Treats
20th March 2025
I’ve a mind to sue
It’s defamation of character
Don’t you know
I’m not one of those Polly Titians
To take it kindly
And she’s as bad
That one who’s hammering the keys
Writing libelous words
Casting Nasturtiums
Rapacious, indeed
Just because I eat the weeds
46 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Rapacious
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