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Crimson’s Creative Post #143

Posted on August 4, 2021 by crispina kemp

Welcome to my weekly challenge—open to all—just for FUN, FUN, FUN

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

Posted on August 3, 2021 by crispina kemp

Flowers from our walk of 19th July. Hot arable land.

Bladder Campion: 19th July 2021

Poppies: 19th July 2021

Hedge Bindweed: 19th July 2021

Grasses on Stubs Green Common: 19th July 2021

Flowers… and butterflies: 19th July 2021

Wheat: 19th July 2021

Field Bindweed: 19th July 2021

Scabious & bee: 19th July 2021

Poppies & Mayweed, a natural combination: 19th July 2021

That’s all for now folks. Hope you enjoyed

Posted in Photos | Tagged British Flora, Butterflies, Photos | 13 Comments

Midnight at the Oasis

Posted on August 2, 2021 by crispina kemp

It wasn’t yet that magical hour
The hour that they’d agreed to meet
Stars blinked in and out of existence
The moon swelled to full and cut to half
She waited in hot anticipation
For tonight’s… midnight at the oasis.

40 words written for Sammi Weekend’s Writing Prompt: Oasis

Posted in Poems (Some Silly) | Tagged poems, Sammi's Weekend Writing Prompt | 13 Comments

Sunday Picture Post: A Half-Day Jaunt

Posted on August 1, 2021 by crispina kemp

19th July and it’s almost midday before we start our walk from Loddon via Stubs Green and Loddon Ingloss and back to Loddon. And it is hot! The land flat, and arable.

19th July 2021

How pleased we are to find a shady lane… almost returned to Loddon and the bus

19th July 2021

Arable land yields fewer flowers. I’ll show you those on Tuesday

Posted in Photos | Tagged Norfolk Walks, Photos | 13 Comments

St John

Posted on July 31, 2021 by crispina kemp

29 July 2021

Mellow Yellow, another title achieved from the list provided for #2021picoftheweek provided by Maria Antonia.

St John’s Wort is a herbal treatment for the alleviation of anxiety and depression.

Posted in Photos | Tagged #2021picoftheweek, British Flora, Photos | 9 Comments

CCC142: Rooted

Posted on July 29, 2021 by crispina kemp

The tree didn’t want to be there
Alone in that field
No kindred in view
No one to chat with
But there the tree was
Roots dug in deep
And there those roots
That tree would keep

Posted in Crimson's Creative Challenge, Photos, Poems (Some Silly) | Tagged Crimson's Creative Challenge, Photos, poems | 17 Comments

Crimson’s Creative Challenge #142

Posted on July 28, 2021 by crispina kemp

Welcome to my weekly challenge—open to all—just for FUN, FUN, FUN

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

Here’s wishing you inspirational explosions. And FUN

Posted in Crimson's Creative Challenge, Photos | Tagged Crimson's Creative Challenge, Photos | 21 Comments

Tuesday Treat: Flowers and Flutters

Posted on July 27, 2021 by crispina kemp

The flowers of hedgerow, riverside and field, plus a selection of “flyers” encountered on our visit to Coltishall on 15th July 2021

Bindweed and Goose-grass: 15th July 2021

White Bryony (WARNING poisonous): 15th July 2021

Hemp Agrimony (WARNING poisonous): 15th July 2021

Some common, some rare, some purely delightful… hope you’ve enjoyed. More next week.

Posted in Photos | Tagged British Fauna, British Flora, Damselflies, Photos | 24 Comments

Vivid in ’89

Posted on July 26, 2021 by crispina kemp

Vivid in ‘89
That’s a memory that makes a good line
And it was a good line
A vivid time
When I was yours
And you were mine
When passion ruled
And we ignored the clock’s chime

Ask not for whom the bell tolls

Vivid the memory of that car as it helled towards us
Vivid the face of the driver
Vivid the crash, the crumple, the force that threw me
Vivid the memory of that tree
Vivid the gas-fuelled explosion
And you not beside me
Vivid that memory.

89 words written for Sammi’s Creative Challenge: Vivid

Posted in Mostly Micro, Poems (Some Silly) | Tagged Photos, poems, Sammi's Weekend Writing Prompt | 16 Comments

Sunday Picture Post: Coltishall

Posted on July 25, 2021 by crispina kemp

Coltishall is a village on River Bure, set at the furthest navigable point. We could hire a boat in Great Yarmouth and cruise upriver. But we don’t. We bus into Norwich and bus out again.