Crimson’s Creative Challenge #214

Posted on December 14, 2022 by crispina kemp

Here’s how it works:

Every Wednesday I post a photo (this week it’s that one above.)
You respond with something CREATIVE

Here are some suggestions:

  • An answering photo
  • A cartoon
  • A joke
  • A caption
  • An anecdote
  • A short story (flash fiction)
  • A poem
  • A newly minted proverb, adage or saying
  • An essay
  • A song—the lyrics or the performance

You have plenty of scope and 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
If you include Crimson’s Creative Challenge as a heading, WP Search will find it (theory)
by ‘Searching’ in the WP Reader (fingers crossed)

Here’s wishing you inspirational explosions. And FUN

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Tuesday Treats: Wood Carving

Posted on December 13, 2022 by crispina kemp

A treat with a difference. In days gone by felled trees were used in a number of useful ways, most now replaced by plastics. So the timbers are left for Nature to dispose of. Meanwhile they provide homes for wildlife…and the material for would-be sculptors! On our walk of 7th November through East Hills Woods, Costessey, we saw so many wood carvings.

Wow! Look! Someone’s provided us with a place to sit. A shame it’s too early for lunch

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And then this scene greets us…

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A close up… oops, the dragon seems to be munching on a hapless knight!

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And here’s another

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This one looks like a snake, and yet it has legs. A lizard, then?

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No mistaking this one! I love it’s tongue

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Looks like this one’s coming out of the ground. Is it a burrowing dragon?

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The last of the dragons, they’ve met their end at the end of the woods

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Love this little wood-gnome

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I’ve featured this before, but it has to be included. Child-sized table and chairs

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And a whole array of wood-gnomes providing stools for child-sized botties!

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Hope you enjoyed. It was a little different, and fascinating to see

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Sunday Picture Post: The Wooded Hills of Costessey

Posted on December 11, 2022 by crispina kemp

Before I moved to the coast, I had only to open my door and stroll to be amongst these wooded hills. Now (7th November) we bus into Norwich and bus out to Costessey. But it’s worth it…

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Photos taken just a month ago yet the trees were still so vividly green!

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Overlooking the River Tud valley AND being at the end of a terminal moraine provides the woodland with plenty hills!

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Those hills have preserved the trees, ensuring the land wasn’t taken in for grain-growing

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Out of the woods and down the lane a way, we cross the River Tud and detour along its bank where willows hold sway

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Now we’re over the river, it’s not a long walk to the next wooded hill

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We’re heading now to what used to be a common

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Being on gravel and sand, the parish council would set those claiming Poor Law aid to quarrying. Those quarries now have flooded and the land around them grown some trees…

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I have a love of these pools; like some enchanted place

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An earlier attempt to rain now become worthy of the word. But that’s fine cos we’re now heading home, another two buses.

Hope you enjoyed

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One Day in Summer

Posted on December 10, 2022 by crispina kemp

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Clear Skies, another title from the list Maria Antonia has given us for #2022picoftheweek

 

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Beware the Teddy Bear

Posted on December 10, 2022 by crispina kemp

When goodbye you waved
Deep into my heart you engraved
A pain beyond compare
With a message to beware
Of fast-typing Teddy Bears

23 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Engrave

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Friday Fungi

Posted on December 9, 2022 by crispina kemp

7th November we returned to the village that had spawned us. Here are two long-established woodlands and a more recent area of woodland pools. Altogether ample fodder for the cameras. Here are a few of the fungi found. Enjoy

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More next week!

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CCC213: Sands of Time

Posted on December 8, 2022 by crispina kemp

When we lived closer to the land
And time was measured by a trickle of sand
Before they mined the coal
To pollute the air and use as fuel
Before that electrifying spark
That relieved the night of dark
Then wind was used to turn wheel and sail
Working with Nature, grim or hale

One of the many windmills that were used to move water from the swampy marshes into the rivers and out to sea, long since replaced by electric-powered pumps

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge # 213

Posted on December 7, 2022 by crispina kemp

Here’s how it works:

Every Wednesday I post a photo (this week it’s that one above.)
You respond with something CREATIVE

Here are some suggestions:

  • An answering photo
  • A cartoon
  • A joke
  • A caption
  • An anecdote
  • A short story (flash fiction)
  • A poem
  • A newly minted proverb, adage or saying
  • An essay
  • A song—the lyrics or the performance

You have plenty of scope and 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
If you include Crimson’s Creative Challenge as a heading, WP Search will find it (theory)
by ‘Searching’ in the WP Reader (fingers crossed)

Here’s wishing you inspirational explosions. And FUN

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Tuesday Treats: Leaves, Fruits, Flowers and Stuff

Posted on December 6, 2022 by crispina kemp

Some of the smaller details from our walk to Burlingham Woods on 31st October, chosen for their colours

Impossible to walk past and not notice…

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Orange Spindle berries with their pinky bracts…

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Teasel… of course

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A solitary late flowering knapweed

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Leaves…

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An unexpected dragonfly. And see what a vibrant leaf it has settled on. I couldn’t NOT take that photo

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A browning frond of bracken, dripping in the morning mist

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Tutsan berries stand out against the vivid green leaves

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Contrasting leaves caught in the yew

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It’ll be a while before there are holly berries here

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The plane leaf holds the beech as in an open hand

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A woodland medley of leaves

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And that is all for this week. Check out next Tuesday to see what new colourful treats I have for your eyes

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Sunday Picture Post: Burlingham Woods Complete

Posted on December 4, 2022 by crispina kemp

Last week we left our walk just as we were approaching Burlingham Woods. Now we complete the walk and return for the bus. Enjoy.

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This woodland is part of the former estate of Burlingham Hall, now made available to the public

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At the end of October most of the leaves still retain their green

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And then there are the pines

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The sun streams through for here the woodland edges the churchyard and a few houses

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Looking up we realise how tall these trees grow

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Time to turn around and come on home…

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When land is left untouched it will revert to woodland

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Between the fields, along the farm tracks…

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So good to see the sun!

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And we’re back to where we begun. Hope you enjoyed.

We’re walking the wooded hills of Costessey next week (the woods of my child-days, always a joy to return). See you then

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