Sailor’s Lament

Posted on July 9, 2022 by crispina kemp

Water, water, everywhere, and not a drop to drink…

22nd June 2022

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

Here’s the long shot:

22nd June 2022

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Repeat Injury

Posted on July 9, 2022 by crispina kemp

A Snap of My Garden: 8th July 2022

Twenty minutes on the garden
Just a little bit of weeding
It was that one at the back
Just out of reach
I stretched
Couldn’t straighten
Return of the bad back

31 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Return

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CCC191: Two Hundred and Thirty-Seven Days

Posted on July 7, 2022 by crispina kemp

One thousand days of walking, that’s what the story told. One thousand days from the west coast, where I was currently residing, to the east coast where I’d been sent to gather the shells. Yellow tourmaline shells, themselves the subject of many myths.

But something was amiss. I had counted the days. Two hundred and thirty-seven. Yet here I was at the east coast, the sun rising and blinding my eyes. And there, unless I was mistaken, was a yellow tourmaline shell – though I hadn’t realised they grew high upon stalks.

Not a shell, but an evening primrose

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #191

Posted on July 6, 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

Yes, that yellow blob is a flower…if you want to feature it

28th June 2022

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Tuesday Treat: Winged Beings and All Those Things

Posted on July 5, 2022 by crispina kemp

13th June 2022 is a day I shall always remember, as you shall see if you follow my steps around Wheatfen Reserve…

First, the caterpillars, little fluffy ones trying to hide behind a stem…

13th June 2022

And big colourful ones…

Mullein Moth Caterpillar: 13th June 2022

And where there are caterpillars, you know there’ll be butterflies…

Small Tortoiseshell: 13th June 2022

A Comma (refuses to open its wings): 13th June 2022

Orange-tip: 13th June 2022

And then it flies off…

13th June 2022

A feeding bee: 13th June 2022

13th June 2022

A damselfly looking fierce: 13th June 2022

Another chilling where we want to sit: 13th June 2022

And this couple getting *down to it*: 13th June 2022

And then as we sit to eat our lunch, there is in front of us this…

Emperor Dragonfly emerges from its nymph-form: 13th June 2022

We watch entranced as its body fills out, taking on its new form. Magical.

Sights like that don’t often greet us. I’m happy to share it with you

Found this on YouTube. It tells you everything you need to know about dragonflies & damsels

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Sunday Picture Post: Wheatfen Nature Reserve

Posted on July 3, 2022 by crispina kemp

13th June, we walked from Hellington Corner, across country to the nature reserve to which TV Naturalist Ted Ellis devoted his life. Now to enter…

13th June 2022

This is fenland, which means wet… a gridwork of channels helps keep the walking dry

13th June 2022

Large areas of open water attract wildfowl in season…apparently this isn’t the season, although there are moorhens here (hiding)

13th June 2022

A *wet* meadow thick with meadowsweet

13th June 2022

Those channels are a haven for all kinds of wildlife…

13th June 2022

13th June 2022

13th June 2022

Wooden walkways allow the visitor to remain dry-shod. Mostly

13th June 2022

We can hear the creak of ropes and sails before we can see it. I hadn’t realised how close we were to the river

13th June 2022

River Yare forms the eastern boundary to the reseve

13th June 2022

A wide swathe cuts through the reeds…

13th June 2022

And another wooden walkway through a wet woodland. It’s hot and steamy out there. We’re glad of the shade, a welcome respite before crossing the barley fields again

13th June 2022

And that’s all folks for now. Hope you enjoyed.

Don’t forget to check out Tuesday Treat when we witness a truly magical event

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Molten Gold

Posted on July 2, 2022 by crispina kemp

Sunrise 4:40am 28th June 2022

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

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A Merchant So Gallant

Posted on July 2, 2022 by crispina kemp

image from pixabay, Eveline de Bruin

The merchant was gallant
Though backdated, maybe ancient
He was unfashionably dominant
Not quite the tyrant
But blunt
He’d say constant
And then add, adamant
Not a favourite with the ladies, I’d warrant
They looked away to views more distant
Some few were tolerant
Most were impatient
Cavalier, he’d say with a leer
A rake, they’d say and hope he’d disappear
Not heard of equality?
Madam, I AM that quality
He said, so flippant

74 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Flippant

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CCC190: The Waterers

Posted on June 30, 2022 by crispina kemp

I remember when you could wander there
When your feet walked on dry land
But that was back before the Waterers came.

Well, that’s what we called them
Always prophesying rising water

Change your ways, change your ways, else it’ll happen
Aye, and our lord will strike you down dead.

We didn’t believe those Waterer people
Didn’t want to change our ancestral ways

So the Waterers laid their curses on us
And the waters rose just as they said.

Now nought but the snakes live there.

 

 

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #190

Posted on June 29, 2022 by crispina kemp

NO ENTRY

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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