Yay! That time of year is here. I’m making no attempt to name the fungi (unless it’s obvious); just going to leave you to enjoy them. Please, enjoy them
Jelly ear: 4th Oct 2021
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Earth Ball: 4th Oct 2021
More of a lichen than a fungus: 4th Oct 2021
Earth Stars: 4th Oct 2021
And more: 4th Oct 2021
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That’s all for now, Folks (it is still early in the year for fungi) Maybe next week I’ll bring you more
4th October we head to Lound Lake. We’ve skirted it on previous visits to the area. This time we’re to walk through the nature reserve. What will we see? But first we’ve a 2 mile walk from the bus stop to get there, at first by country lane…
4th Oct 2021
Then through a woodland…
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Where fungi grow (more of those later)…
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To arrive at the lake…
4th Oct 2021
Although called a lake it is one of the Broads, now repurposed as a reservoir
4th Oct 2021
How many geese make a gaggle?
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Moorhen: 4th Oct 2021
And a curious young swan: 4th Oct 2021
The reserve includes grassy upland, fantastic for butterfly hunters…
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And tree-shaded walks…
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And around a second lake the pine trees grow. For me, this tree is iconic
4th Oct 2021
I featured the second part of this walk earlier this year, so I’m going to leave this here. Ah, I mentioned fungi: See Tuesday Treats.
Hope you enjoyed. More next week.
South Face, Norwich Cathedral: 15 Oct 2021
Symmetry, another title achieved from the list provided for #2021picoftheweek provided by Maria Antonia.
This isn’t the face of the cathedral most visitors see. They arrive from Tombland via the west gate, to the applause of clicking cameras. The west face is very ornate and gothic.
This is the south face, part of the original build, and Byzantium (Romanesque) in design
South Face, Norwich cathedral: 15 Oct 2021
The difference between Byzantium and Gothic is easily seen here
image by Nadine Doerle on pixabay
I don’t suppose the average Joe in the street gives thought to this, far more concerned with football results, rising prices, Climate Change, the increase in positive Covid tests and whether Blundering Boris will fall off a figurative cliff before or after the next election.
But for a few of us this endures, exquisitely, annoyingly totally unanswerable: Did William (the Bastard) Duke of Normandy truly have right to the English throne?
The ink, the paper, the hours, the reputations this question has cost us.
84 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Question
Norwich Cathedral: 15 Oct 2021
Look at this. What do you see? Beautiful, isn’t it. The praise of God made permanent in stone.
But look again and see the oppression of the Saxon race, Norman stone that crowded us out of our homes.
Three parishes flattened so they could build this to assuage their guilt. Our houses, our churches… and we could not pray in there instead. This was for their monks, not for the defeated Saxon people.
Beautiful, yes. A beautiful construction that flattened and destroyed us. But we lower our eyes and we obey and we live to fight another day.
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:
You have plenty of scope and only two criteria:
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
Our walk on 28th Sept was too late for summer flowers but too early for autumnal trees. Yet there were some signs of the changing season. Enjoy…
A tansy lingers in flower: 28 Sept 2021
Ivy, golden-bright, at its best now: 28 Sept 2021
Fruits…
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Not all of them edible
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And seeds big…
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And small…
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And leaves…
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Some fallen…
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And [drum roll] fungi… some hiding…
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Some full-on displaying…
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Hope you’ve enjoyed this colourful round-up. Next week we go to Lound Lakes. Hope you’ll join me.
28th September isn’t yet autumn, but nor is it summer, it’s a between-time. And likewise, our walk this day is through a between-land, through the softly undulating plateau between rivers Yare and Bure, through agricultural land, and through woodland. Come join me…
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With few flowers left and the trees not yet turning, it’s the land that provides most of the colour
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We prefer farm tracks and footpaths, but occasionally we have to walk a country lane (and beware of meeting tractors)
28th Sept 2021
Looking back as we leave the road and walk through a small woodland instead
28th Sept 2021
The way-marker ahead gives us a choice of routes. We’re turning left
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Sometimes we find a bench conveniently placed
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And sometimes we find obsolete gates. This little road serves the church at North Burlingham
28th Sept 2021
You might think the land is flat, but this lane proves otherwise. Down we go… and up again
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28th Sept 2021
Back to where we started with the rolling farmland between Yare & Bure, between Acle and Hemblington… one of my favourite walk.
See Tuesday Treats for the details of what we saw along the way
9th Oct 2021
Goodnight, another title achieved from the list provided for #2021picoftheweek provided by Maria Antonia.
image by Ewa Urban on pixabay
They fought with guts and guns and taunts of come-on
They wiped the field on the defeated faces of human races
They patterned them with blood-formed laces
The legion from our region
32 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Prompt: Legion
