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Tuesday Treats: Colours

Posted on November 8, 2022 by crispina kemp

A variety of photos taken on our walk through Norwich and around Mousehold Heath on 21st October 2022

The “corner” house in ox-blood pink

21st October 2022

In the greyness of mist…colour seen through the arch of St James Bridge

21st October 2022

Mist and cobwebs, this must be October

21st October 2022

Sycamore and ivy…

21st October 2022

Hawthorn usually turns a bronzed-red in autumn, but here… such unusual colours

21st October 2022

Oak leaves. But what colour is this?

21st October 2022

Pretty heather in the bedewed grass

21st October 2022

A speckled wood butterfly… unexpected on this day

21st October 2022

The colour of riverside trees seen reflected in the river

21st October 2022

And for this week we must end here. More next week

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Sunday Picture Post: Town and Country Morning Mist

Posted on November 6, 2022 by crispina kemp

21st October 2022 begins with thick mist. Bussing across the marshland into Norwich we can’t see beyond the edge of the road. We’re heading out to Mousehold Heath, a wooded hill topped by a heathland

Our route takes us down the oft-photographed Elm Hill

21st October 2022

And via the riverside walk…

21st October 2022

A short climb, steep, not high, bring us to the woodland and the first of autumnal colour

21st October 2022

And so to the heathland…

21st October 2022

Delighted to see the heather in flower

21st October 2022

And the bracken turned to burned and fiery autumn colour

21st October 2022

Alas, there we must leave this walk, but we’ll continue next week

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Musing in the Mews

Posted on November 5, 2022 by crispina kemp

21st October 2022

A scene in The Close, Norwich Cathedral, where residents in former days were able to stable their horses, the grooms probably sleeping above, in the hayloft

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

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I’m No Fool

Posted on November 5, 2022 by crispina kemp

image: Sam Williams on pixabay

I am no fool
But make it a rule
On Saturday morn
Get this prompt done

16 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Rule

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Friday Fungi

Posted on November 4, 2022 by crispina kemp

Just a few of the fungi found on our walk around Mousehold Heath (Norwich) on 21st October. Enjoy, all you fungi fanatics!

21st October 2022

Hope you enjoyed. More next week, for these weren’t even half the camera’s harvest of that day

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CCC208: You’d Best Be Brave

Posted on November 3, 2022 by crispina kemp

If you go down to the woods today
You’d best take a spear and a shield
You’d best be brave for there you’ll find
A bestial beast who’ll refuse to yield

Fire it breathes
And its back is plated with steel
And don’t you get too close to it
Else you’ll end up being its next meal

Some says that’s just a story
To frighten children such as you
But I’ve seen it emitting its blue halo-light
And I tell you that it’s true

As to that blue halo-light… I don’t know. A water droplet on my lens? Maybe

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #208

Posted on November 2, 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: Colour (after the rain)

Posted on November 1, 2022 by crispina kemp

A colourful collection from our walk on 10th October 2022

This isn’t a native shrub, it’s an “ornamental”, but I couldn’t resist that colour

10th October 2022

Now we’re into “native”…

10th October 2022

And berries…

10th October 2022

And acorns…

10th October 2022

More leaves…

10th October 2022

Bryony, just hanging around…

10th October 2022

Undecided whether to include this photo, but I like it

10th October 2022

In a woodland full of holly…

10th October 2022

And finally an oddity. Not sure what this is. Possibly lichen.

10th October 2022

And that, dear readers, is all for this week. Ah, but more next week!

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Sunday Picture Post: After the Rain

Posted on October 30, 2022 by crispina kemp

10th October, our intended walk is only a short bus journey away. But just as we get off the bus, a great heavy cloud dumps its rain on us. We took shelter in a shop.