Tuesday Treats: Mixed Bathing

Some of the bird pics from our walk at Whitlingham on 30th September 2022

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And there’s always one who wants to be alone

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Hope you enjoyed.

Now, I wonder what I might have for you next week?

 

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Monday Miscellany: Focus on Colour

A miscellany of photos from our walk 30th September 2022. Autumn knocks quietly on the door…

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That’s all folks…for today. Don’t miss tomorrow’s Tuesday Treats!

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Sunday Picture Post: Whitlingham Country Park

On the outskirts of Norwich a lake was formed when aggregates were excavated for the building of the Norwich Southern Bypass. Adjacent to the lake are the tree-clothed flanks of former quarries. It is quite a delightful place whether you want to sail, run, walk or scramble up those hills.

30th September, a misty morning

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When dew-sparkled cobwebs line the paths

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The mist is so dense, we can’t see the lake

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But by the time we reach the river (beyond the lake) that mist is clearing

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River Yare, part of the Norfolk Broads complex

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We turn then to the wooded hills, to walk our way back

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Looking down…

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So glad of the steps. Here the soil is eroding and some of those steps are rather steep

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And we’re back down to the lake…which we now can see!

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It’s a beautiful walk, a beautiful day, and I return home with a camera full of photos…which is why I posted fungi yesterday, and tomorrow I’ll post flora, and Tuesday, for a treat, water birds

Hope you enjoy them all

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Because Love Isn’t Black and White

image from Pixabay

You cannot know day without the night
Without the dark you cannot know light
You cannot know warmth without the cold
Without the shy you can’t know the bold
Without the below you can’t have above
But without its opposite you still know love


44 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Opposite

 

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Play Away

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I’m titling this Playaway because it’s children’s play equipment. And because I was playing when I took this shot!

Choose You Own Title, another title from the list Maria Antonia has given us for #2022picoftheweek

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Friday Fungi

A new feature on this blog… while the fungi season lasts.

These are photos taken at Whitlingham Country Park, 30th September 2022. Enjoy

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That’s all for now, folks. Plenty more next week!

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CCC206: Poor Polly No-Drawers

Poor Polly No-Drawers couldn’t keep a thread on
Every cloth, large or small, she’d shed
Her coat
Her jacket
Her dress
Her shoes
Her socks
Her vest
And yes, even her drawers
We found her hat on a signpost and following the sign, found Polly
She was feeding chickens with grain from the farmer’s silo.

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge # 206

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 Treat: Fungi, Fruits and Nuts

Fungi, fruits, nuts and this… all in autumnal colours

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Hope you’ve enjoyed.

Next week…more fungi. It is the season

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Sunday Picture Post: Gates, Grass and Trees

20th September 2022, we bus to Norwich, then a second bus. To come home we’ll need a third bus, for we’re walking between the bus routes. The walk is along country lanes

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Along the lanes gates fail to enclose fields of rusty docks and grasses

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Some gates fail to enclose private woods

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The lane is lined with trees that hold mistletoe high into the sky

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The lane takes us through a village. More gates, these into gardens, these more secure

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A footpath takes us out of the village…

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and delivers us onto another lane

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Where there’s an ivy-bound gate. Not sure this one would open

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The gate to this field was secure

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Here’s a hefty, hearty tree…

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And another gate… though our route takes us to right of this

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The last gate…

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And that’s all for today… please join me again next Sunday when we find water birds on a misty morn

 

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