Crimson’s Creative Challenge #172

Posted on February 23, 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: Winter Fungus

Posted on February 22, 2022 by crispina kemp

Just when I thought no more fungus would show till the late end of the year, these…

The scarlet elf cup has to be the easiest to identify

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This was growing nearby. It didn’t tell me its name…

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This fungal growth is peppered with red-fluid filled beads

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These winter growths can be very strange…

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…very strange

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Jelly ears: 7th February 2022 

Oh what a lot I’ve got…

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Ochre Turkey-tails: 7th February 2022 

Well, that was unexpected. But that was all. Hope you enjoyed!

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Sunday Picture Post: In Winter Woods

Posted on February 20, 2022 by crispina kemp

7th February, we hop on a bus to Norwich to walk along the Wensum Valley and visit the little Tud. From there we head into Costessey where there are wooded hills. Please come with me…

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Woodland photography isn’t easy when the trees are in full leaf  and the sun spears through. So much easier to see the terrain when the trees are bare or beginning to green…

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Trees here are mostly beech, birch, oak, hazel and chestnut, with a dash of holly

Silver Birch: 7th February 2022

Hazel Catkins: 7th February 2022

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Beech trees grow on the wood-bank, a sign of this woodland’s great age

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Catkins: 7th February 2022

A very old holly: 7th February 2022

Looking towards the Tud from the edge of the woods

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Colour… remnants of last year

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This is a beautiful woodland, open to the public and managed by the parish council. Here’s where I grew up, here’s where I played Robin Hood and other such adventures. Hope you enjoyed it

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Paid With Wool

Posted on February 19, 2022 by crispina kemp

Flushwork: 7th February 2022 

East Anglia has no native rock, but it has plenty of flint. The medieval flint-knapper and mason worked together to produce this wonderfully decorative flushwork, a common feature on East Anglian churches. Paid for with the profits of East Anglian wool trade.

I submit this as Abstract, another title from the list Maria Antonia has given us for #2022picoftheweek

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Calamitous Cake

Posted on February 19, 2022 by crispina kemp

image by tsolanes on pixabay

You know my mother’s favourite saying?
That’s a sure recipe for disaster.

We kids used to laugh and say the outcome wouldn’t be so calamitous
if only she would use one – for her cooking, that is.

36 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Recipe

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CCC171: Keen Eyed Jack

Posted on February 17, 2022 by crispina kemp

Dizzy Behold could eat no cold
Dozy from Torham could eat no warm
But Keen-Eyed Jack, if he was bold
Could catch and eat a squiggly worm.

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #171

Posted on February 16, 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: Finding Colour

Posted on February 15, 2022 by crispina kemp

7th February is still early to find much by way of spring colour. But we found some. Enjoy…

Robin, singing in the Spring: 7th February 2022 

Last of the Summer Rose Hips: 7th February 2022 

Ivy’s colurful berries: 7th February 2022 

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Blackberry, Rubus fructocus: 7th February 2022 

A lone buttercup: 7th February 2022 

Roses leafing-up: 7th February 2022 

Beautiful greens: 7th February 2022 

A lone tenacious leaf: 7th February 2022 

Catkins & cones of the alder tree: 7th February 2022 

Colourful ivy: 7th February 2022 

A spring bee feeding on a dandelion: 7th February 2022 

Hope you enjoyed. I’ve something different for you next week

 

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Sunday Picture Post: Wensum, Town, and Tud

Posted on February 13, 2022 by crispina kemp

7th February, we hop on a bus to Norwich. Although Norwich is Norfolk’s County Town, it’s actually a city (it has a cathedral)

City Hall: 7th February 2022

Norwich has some fine old buildings…

Guildhall: 7th February 2022

St Peter Mancroft: 7th February 2022

But much as I love this city, our destination is Costessey on the River Tud… which is more of a stream… we’re walking there along Marriotts Way

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On the Wensum… swans, always…

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Alongside it, meadows that this time of year are frequently flooded

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The Tud is a tributary of the Wensum…

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I grew up here so I admit I am biased. Yet the Tud is [quote] “And outstanding example of a chalkland river”

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At a season when there’s little else to delight the eye, I’m happy to go click-mad here

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For years I’ve told myself, “One day I’m going to explore the place where this river rises.” One day I might, but for now this is where we leave the Tud. We’re heading now to Costessey Woods… but those photos must wait till next week

Hope you enjoyed

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Frosties For Breakfast

Posted on February 12, 2022 by crispina kemp

7th February 2022

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

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