Tuesday Treat: Birds & Bees

The flowers and fauna seen on our walk on 1st June 2021. Enjoy

Poppy…

One of the many cranesbills…

Buttercup… up close and personal…

Forget-me-nots… and stinging nettes

Pink Campion (which is a hybrid of white & red)

Above the common a kestrel waits…

I always think of this as Sorrel. But I think it’s more likely a Goosefoot or Orache…

But no doubt of this. Vetch

The female mallard in perfect camouflage…

Her male siblings are less so…

Not many flowers on the water-meadows except for this mistletoe found growing on a willow

Mistletoe… complete with berries

That’s all for this week. I’ve more to show you next week.

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Ursula

Ursula aka Junior

Ursula, well-formed and sleek

Sensuously rounded

Strong limbed in muscle and bone, coordination finely honed

Silken hair glossy black, thick down her back

Eyes liquid pools, deep, hot and inviting yet cool

Swift and supple, dextrous and agile

A stealthy hunter, a cunning and devious fisher

A courageous traipser of dangerous deserts, strong and resilient in climbing mountains; adventurous go out and getter, fearless when a forest-dweller

Will not be defeated nor yet conquered

An admirable specimen much sort after, Ursula Junior, everything a bear should be… but from a different galaxy

92 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Galaxy

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Sunday Picture Post: Swardeston

June 1st. Summer is here. Two buses to get from Gt Yarmouth to Swardeston, but it’s worth it. We haven’t walked here since 2018. It’s almost like breaking new territory. And the sun shines on us while a gentle breeze cools us. (all images 1st June 2021)

A glimpse of a cottage lets us know the nature of the terrain

Anyone for cricket? This is the upper part of Swardeston Common

Reflections on the village pond

The “Lower” Common

And after breakfast… rest awhile (the water-meadow)

Hugging the meadows… arable fields where canola glows

Willow of course, this is riverside property. But what’s this? Mistletoe, too

We’re leaving the water meadow (where walking isn’t easy, so ridged and pitted by hooved foots)

Glimpsed before, now we walk alongside it

Everywhere are ponds and puddles and streams

Catbridge Lane. This seems a good place to stop for now. We’ll continue the walk next Sunday. See ouyou then

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Poppies… splashing

A Splash of Colour, another title achieved from the list provided for #2021picoftheweek provided by Maria Antonia

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CCC135: Sitting Up

Crimson’s Creative Challenge #135

Look at them. Look! Think themselves a cut above, always sitting up.

Now, Mum, you know that’s not true.

No? Yet they sit up on their horses, sit up on their wagon when they go into town. And you saw them at harvest? They sat up at that table while we “humble harvesters” sat down. We sit down. Sit down by the fire, sit down while we mend and make do, sit down with the company of our own kind. Sit down. While they sit up.

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #135

CCC135

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 Treat: Local Flowers

As I explained on Sunday, the op on my eye has kept me close to home. But that doesn’t mean no flowers! Enjoy.

The May is out!: 23 May 2021
It is everywhere, frothing white: 23 May 2021
Cranesbill: 23 May 2021
Also Cranesbill; there are many wild species of this: 23 May 2021
Alkanet: 23 May 2021
A ground-hugging medley that includes yet another species of cranesbill: 23 May 2021
And another: 23 May 2021
Sun Spurge (could be a garden escapee because… see next): 23 May 2021
Rare to see lilac in gardens these days, it’s out of fashion, but this was an escapee: 23 May 2021
Chamomile (or a close cousin): 23 May 2021
Vetch. And a little blue bug: 23 May 2021
Apple blossom is as common in our hedgerows at the moment as as the May blossom: 23 May 2021

A beautiful taste of spring before it edges into summer

Hope you enjoyed

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Ten Years in Holy Orders

Who would suspect him, a monk ten years in holy orders?
Although he had already lived 150.

His weapon of choice?
Not a blade or poison.
A chord of increasing volume.
Delivered within a Gregorian chant.
Crescendo.

37 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Crescendo

image from pixabay by Birgit Bollinger

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Sunday Picture Post: Angles Way

Unable to catch a bus because I couldn’t wear a mask because I’d had an op on my eye, 23rd May saw us walking out of Great Yarmouth to join the long distance track of Angles Way, though we only followed it as far as Burgh Castle. I wore very dark glasses, my eye… sensitive

Swans, a common sight today: 23 May 2021
Nesting amongst the reeds: 23 May 2021
Angles Way keeps to the back of the marshes… and today it is marshy: 23 May 2021
On reaching the village we wonder what the weather might do: 23 May 2021
A private road takes us to the grazing marshes (no sign of the foxgloves we found here last year): 23 May 2021
23 May 2021
Drainage channels at the back of Breydon Wall are full: 23 May 2021
And another swan couple; these have some cygnets but very well hidden: 23 May 2021
Looking back towards Burgh Castle and there’s a hint of woeful weather: 23 May 2021
Maybe that’s a bit more than a hint, but we’re heading home, no sweat: 23 May 2021
We end our walk at Cobholm Common. I’ve taken photos here in all seasons & conditions; this is the greenest we’ve seen it in many a month: 23 May 2021

It was a short walk, about 7 miles, and much of that along Breydon wall. The water was high so no waders to see.

For the flowers met on the way, see Tuesday Treat

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Water, Wind and Steam

23rd May 2021

Technology, another title achieved from the list provided for #2021picoftheweek provided by Maria Antonia

Wind: for the sails

Water: from the river

Steam: the old mill, now replaced by electrics

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