Crimson’s Creative Challenge #185

Posted on May 25, 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 Treat: Flowers of Sand and Peat

Posted on May 24, 2022 by crispina kemp

Where the bus stops there is a park, quite delightful with ornamental trees, a cafe, music concerts, and run-around-lawns for the kids. We pass through on the way to the promenade…

Rhododendron: 15th May 2022 

Even the concrete promenade has flowers… for those with eyes. Love how the salt has changed the leaves to purple

Dandelion relative: 15th May 2022 

On the dunes, a tiny flower

Unidentified, guessing at cranesbill: 15th May 2022 

Dune Rose, Sand Rose, Rosa Rugossa… take your pick

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And choose your colour

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This next one’s protected (means it’s rare & endangered) so DON’T pick it

Sea Kale: 15th May 2022 

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Atop the cliff… gorse, of course

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And into the woods… a Red Horse Chestnut (oh, that old nut!)

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Anomalies multiply… white bluebells

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And here was a shot I couldn’t resist

Rhododendron & pine: 15th May 2022 

Cascade of honeysuckle: 15th May 2022 

And with the honeysuckle we must move on. Next week we’re back to the second part of the walk… cliffs and sea

Hope you enjoyed

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Sunday Picture Post: Between the Resorts

Posted on May 22, 2022 by crispina kemp

We set out early, a bus to Lowestoft. It’s no great distance, about 10 miles. We’re walking back… by beach and cliff and woods and back to cliffs and beach. It’s a walk of two parts (second part next week)

The tide is high when we arrive at Lowestoft and there’s not a lot of blue in the sky.

15th May 2022 

In fact, it’s a decidedly grey day. Why, even the gulls are grey!

15th May 2022 

I do hope the weather improves; I hope we find some colour. Hey, here’s colour. This beach (north end of Lowestoft) is almost a war museum, so many remains of WWII coastal defences

15th May 2022 

Moving to Gunton Cliffs and Warren… a spring

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At Gunton the dunes are alive with golden gorse

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More war relics…and someone with a sense of humour

15th May 2022 

We climb the cliff. This being compacted sand (not sandstone) we do it the safe way, using the steps provided

Looking back after first flight: 15th May 2022 

Atop the cliff a veritable forest of evergreen oak, wind-wrung and wrangled

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And more gorse, so welcome on such a grey day

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And soon from the gorse-land we’re into the woodland and here we’re greeted by a little green pool

15th May 2022 

Meandering through… so easy to get lost although this woodland is no great size

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…until we come to the heart of the woods…

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What a beautiful place to stop, take a breath. We’ll return next week when we’ll head back to the sea

Hope you enjoy. Sorry about the weather; I’m not in control of that!

Don’t forget to check out Tuesday Treats for the flowers seen on the way

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Something New

Posted on May 21, 2022 by crispina kemp

18th May 2022 

I planted these irises last autumn; they’ve been advertising their presence (as leaves) for ages, but I’d forgotten what colour they were till Wednesday morning. Fully delighted with this *something new*.

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

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The Pole That Threads

Posted on May 21, 2022 by crispina kemp

Design by Lauren Willmore for The Pole That Threads

Kerrid watched the sky, a sullen stare at the encircling Star Serpent, a fervent prayer to the Spinner for some sign, any sign, some guidance. That sign came the third night.

She thought she’d entranced to the Web, yet there was no cold cutting wind, no taste of smoke and salt on the air in the Web.

But if she weren’t in the Web, then what were those lights, these wind-wafted veils of delicate hues?

Divines… pouring through the star-guarded hole. She’d found the pole that threads the world. The Omphalos.

91 words for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Omphalos

Sampled from The Pole That Threads, Bk 3 in The Spinner’s Game

 

 

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CCC184: The Border Trench

Posted on May 19, 2022 by crispina kemp

It took one hundred men one hundred years to dig out the border trench one hundred feet deep.

But that was one thousand years ago.

Time has filled it with silt and drift. Today it took me less than ten clicks to cross it.

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #184

Posted on May 18, 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: Flowers and… Things

Posted on May 17, 2022 by crispina kemp

Spring is the best time for wild flowers. Please browse with me what Nature offers us…

6th May 2022

It is the time for apples and pears…

6th May 2022

And May (hawthorn) of course…

6th May 2022

It’s a time for daisies… these are stitchwort

6th May 2022

These too are stitchwort… except that big one. That’s an Ox-Eye daisy

6th May 2022

And we humans aren’t alone in liking daisies…

Female Orange Tip: 6th May 2022

And while we’re talking butterflies…

Speckled Wood: 6th May 2022

Common Comfrey: 6th May 2022

Our two most common wayside comfreys (although I could be wrong with their identification, since there aeveral similar)

Russian Comfrey: 6th May 2022

And while we’re looking at blue flowers, though coming down a bit in size!

Speedwell: 6th May 2022

And keeping it small…

Cranesbill: 6th May 2022

Then on the wet-marshy common… ransoms! (wild garlic)

6th May 2022

Looking like celestial crowns as they hold their flowers over the water

6th May 2022

I hope you enjoyed. Now, let’s see, what I might have for you next week?

 

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Sunday Picture Post: Happing on Flordon Common

Posted on May 15, 2022 by crispina kemp

Out of nowhere, without the slow build usual of spring, Friday 6th May is going to be hot. Not roasting-hot, not height of the summer-hot, but hot.  So fill those water-bottles, pack your sunscreen, and come along with me.

Two buses take us to Long Stratton, a small town on an old Roman road (we’ve been there before, the start of many walks). We head out of town northeastward and happen upon Tharston

6th May 2022

Too soon to take advantage of this seat. As with many Norfolk villages, the church is way-way-way away from the present-day village

6th May 2022

Just to remind us of the month, every hedgerow is white with May blossoms (hawthorn)

6th May 2022

The route is over fields and along little leafy lanes…

6th May 2022

6th May 2022

Anyone who knows me knows I’ve a passion for pylons. If we see nothing else this day, still I’d be happy with these

6th May 2022

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Twisty-turny country lanes, and sprawling farm buildings…we’re happening upon the next village, Hapton

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More little lanes, and across a pasture with cattle grazing

6th May 2022

And we’re at destination. Flordon Common. Next month (June) this path will be lined with yellow flag (wild iris)

6th May 2022

In centuries past this stream powered several mills on its way to join the river Yare just outside Norwich. How things do change!

6th May 2022

No yellow flags today, too early. Instead the common has turned white with ransom flowers (wild garlic), and oh boy, is that a tantalising smell

6th May 2022

We follow the path kept wide by grazing cattle to rejoin the country lanes at Flordon village. By now the heat has become oppressive. The two miles back to the bus-stop somewhat resembles walking into an oven; I want to return to the shade of the trees

6th May 2022

I hope you enjoyed the walk. I did. But I have to admit, I have a heart problem which makes me hyper-sensitive to heat (doctor says I shouldn’t go out in it but stupid me, I keep going)

Hope you’ll join me again next week. And don’t forget to check out Tuesday Treat for the flowers seen on the way

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Marguerite

Posted on May 14, 2022 by crispina kemp

14th May 2022

Marguerite wasn’t used to this
Crammed together with her sisters
In the nursery
Now she’d been bought
She had the spotlight

21 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Spotlight

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