Sunday Picture Post: Early One Morning

Posted on August 21, 2022 by crispina kemp

Heatwave and health issues, I’ve not been able to get out for a walk. But here’s one I did earlier. So set the alarm for an hour before sunrise, and let’s go…

The town sleeps beneath a slight mist…

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With the lights on the bridge and the mist…all very Dickensian

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Looking towards Breydon Bridge, and the water beyond…

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An amber glow heralds the sun… though she won’t show herself for a while yet

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Where the rivers meet…

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All very pale and misty, Breydon Water, the confluence of three river, an “inland” estuary…

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The Moon’s still up!

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A look back to the bridge…the sun’s about to show!

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Zoomed in time and space to show this shot…the sun rising over Breydon Bridge (it doesn’t happen for 7 minutes yet)

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Meanwhile, between the water and the mist, all would be quiet but for the waders piping in the day! Evocative sounds, not captured with a photo but that line of black dots on the water’s edge, they’re birds

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I could spend my days taking photos of Breydon when it’s like this…so serene

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Looking back… breathe deep. Enjoy

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Looking West, it might look like the world ends there. But no, my walk for that day has only just begun

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Hope you enjoyed this leisurely peaceful walk, relaxing, soul-enriching. I’m saving the rest of the photos for next week, for I doubt I’ll be able to get out for a while yet. And I have something totally different for your Tuesday Treat!

Until then…keep it fun, keep it safe, keep it cool

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Crying at the Discoteque

Posted on August 20, 2022 by crispina kemp

Image by Ezster on Pixabay

What, you’ve never heard of Alcazar? Where have you been all your life?

Oh, I guess you don’t go clubbing. Go clubbing, went clubbing…ever went clubbing?
And for you, the only music to come out of Sweden was Abba.

Babe, Abba’s Dancing Queen is like…antiquated moves, while with Alcazar’s Crying at the Discoteque you really get into the groove.

But like all good things they didn’t last forever. 1999 to 2011 and then they were gone.

76 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Alcazar

It’s a long intro (about 1 min, be patient)

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Breydon Bridge

Posted on August 20, 2022 by crispina kemp

Sunrise 18th April 2022

[Sunrise] begins with S, another title from the list Maria Antonia has given us for #2022picoftheweek

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CCC197: Into the West

Posted on August 18, 2022 by crispina kemp

Intent on a rest
The radiant Lady rode into the West
The faithful river beneath her white mare
Flowed slowly to meet her

If they met, I wonder where

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Crimson’s Creative Post #197

Posted on August 17, 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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TT: Flowers and Flutter-bys

Posted on August 16, 2022 by crispina kemp

Some of the flowers, butterflies and other things seen on our walk 1st August 2022. Inevitably, many of the flowers are garden escapees

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That’s all for now, Folks. Hope you enjoyed.

Next week I might have something totally different for you cos heat and health is keeping me close to home

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Waves Waving

Posted on August 15, 2022 by crispina kemp

Shots of the sea taken on our walk, 1st August 2022. Enjoy

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Hope that’s helped to cool you some if, like us, you’re in the midst of a heatwave

See Tuesday’s Treat for Flowers and Flutter-bys from this same walk

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An August Walk

Posted on August 14, 2022 by crispina kemp

1st August, hop on the first bus out of town…to Hemsby, a popular little resort of wooden chalets set in the sand dunes. Idyllic? I’ll let you be the judge.

Sun, sea and sand, who could ask for more, and the weather is kind; no heatwave today

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It still looks inviting yet two years ago a wooden chalet stood here. See it’s fence and the plants that were its garden

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And this chalet has left its porch behind

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I remember as a child there were at least two more lanes of chalets. But I particularly remember the furthest, most seaward row. The drifting dunes had all but covered them.

This is wind-damage, storm damage, it is not rising sea levels. And this is regular Earth behaviour.

The damage at the next resort, Scratby, isn’t as calamitous. But then the cliffs here are compacted sand, while at Hemsby they’re merely high-rise dunes.

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Next resort, California (I wonder whence that name?) Here we’ve no choice but to walk the beach for the cliff-top path runs out

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Low-level sea defences here in the form of granite blocks brought in from Norway…which the wind- and storm-driven sand is covering. The marram grass helps to stabilise that sand

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Incoming tide flows into a channel it has already carved into the beach. That channel runs some distance parallel to the shore and provides shallow safe water for the children

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Ahead, as behind, the cliffs, complete with evidence of calving. Rainwater draining through the sandy soil carves out fault lines which eventually cause collapse. Inevitable.

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The wind-turbines on Scroby Sands, a sandbar exposed at low tide

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And we leave the beach for easier walking…

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And to our delight find harebells everywhere

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I hope you enjoyed our walk. Yes, the Norfolk coast has its problems, mostly natural erosion. But it also is beautiful. And while walking the shore I indulged my passion for explosive waves which I’ll show you tomorrow…

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The North-West Passage

Posted on August 13, 2022 by crispina kemp

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This time of year the sun sets to the northwest which gives perfect alignment with shoreline, waterline and the lines of the mooring-dolphin on Breydon Water.

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

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The Courtier

Posted on August 13, 2022 by crispina kemp

image by walkerssk on pixabay

Wow! Is this guy the king or is he the king
Strutting his stuff in a lazuli ruff
Flashing his colours, outshining all others
His strident screech with piercing reach
Crest held erect
In every detail this guy is correct
Yet for all his dazzling eyes
He’s forever grounded, can’t reach the skies

53 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Dazzling

 

 

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