By The Way

Posted on April 20, 2021 by crispina kemp

Quite simply, flowers seen along the way on our walk on Saturday 10th April. Hope you enjoy this wonderful splash of spring as much as I did.

Apple blossom: 10 April 2021
10 April 2021
10 April 2021
Red Dead-Nettle: 10 April 2021
Dead-Nettles & Stitchwort: 10 April 2021
Pink Campion: 10 April 2021
Alkanet: 10 April 2021
Ground Ivy: 10 April 2021
Forget-Me-Nots: 10 April 2021
Cowslips: 10 April 2021
Primroses: 10 April 2021
Barren Strawberry: 10 April 2021
:Star of Bethlehem: 10 April 2021
Wood Anemone: 10 April 2021

Truly, spring is here, with flowers everywhere.

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This Man of Mine

Posted on April 19, 2021 by crispina kemp
image by Pexels on pixabay

This man, what can I say?
Colliding on the internet
such is the common way
sent me pics.
Uncanny likeness:
Man from Uncle
Sapphire and Steel.
Can this be real?
But I’ve no doubt
A Scotsman’s genes will out

39 words for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Uncanny

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Into The Woods

Posted on April 18, 2021 by crispina kemp

Oh yay! Although the sun’s hiding, yet spring is truly come. We take the bus from Great Yarmouth to the small town of Acle on the far side of the grazing marshes. Most of our route will be off-road. But after all the rain, how muddy will it be? We don’t care; we set off.

Farm track: 10 April 2021
Silver birch: 10 April 2021
Sycamore: 10 April 2021
Into the woods: 10 April 2021
Daffodils and primroses everywhere: 10 April 2021
10 April 2021
10 April 2021
Canola field adds a brighter yellow: 10 April 2021
Wow, this was a quagmire on our last visit: 10 April 2021
Turkey-tail Fungus: 10 April 2021
Male catkins of Black Poplar: 10 April 2021
Unidentified: 10 April 2021
I am told this is a Bee-fly! 10 April 2021
Hemblington Church from across the field: 10 April 2021

We intended to catch a bus into Norwich from here. But thanks to covid there is no bus. We walk to the next village. Same story: buses early & late to serve the workers but none on a Saturday afternoon. We get a taxi into Norwich where we catch a bus back home.

Watch this space on Tuesday for the flowers seen.

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Double Vision

Posted on April 17, 2021 by crispina kemp
15th April 2021

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

And they stood like that for what seemed an age, blocking my path!

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Misery

Posted on April 15, 2021 by crispina kemp
Crimson’s Creative Challenge

Mercy was her name
To the door she came
A nurse, she wore a mask
The look she gave me, I was scared to ask
In truth, I didn’t dare
Does Stephen King still live here?

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #127

Posted on April 14, 2021 by crispina kemp
CCC127

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: When it’s Spring Again

Posted on April 13, 2021 by crispina kemp

I’ll bring again Tulips From Amsterdam

Putting the new camera to the test

I promise next week we’ll be back to wild flowers

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Behind Enemy Lines

Posted on April 12, 2021 by crispina kemp
image by Matthias Burtscher on pixabay

Who’d be the youngest in the brigade?
I swear it isn’t fair
Do this, do that
Groom the horses
Fetch the water
And never mind the danger
Off you go to forage.
————————
No, I’m not a deserter
I’m foraging food and water
Was I to know these are enemy lines
Did I pass a sign, don’t tread here?
Was there anything to say beware?
An older man might have known
That older might have shown me
Are you going to shoot me?

82 words written fro Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Forage

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Sunday Picture Post: A Different Way

Posted on April 11, 2021 by crispina kemp

My new camera arrived on 3rd April. Impatient, the next day I take it for a walk. I’m out early. The light isn’t good and it’s cold, but…

Catkins (pussy-willow with pollen): 4th April 2021
Little Egret tests the range of my new zoom: 4th April 2021

Too cold to walk on Breydon bank, I join a farm track across the grazing marshes to Burgh Castle

Seeing these everywhere amongst the reeds: 4th April 2021
Another test for the camera, will it focus through the reeds? 4th April 2021
Just two weeks ago this track was silver with pussy-willow; now it’s green and gold: 4th April 2021
Willows come in many species: 4th April 2021

At Burgh Castle I turn on to Angles Way, a route I’ve not used since late summer (tends to get boggy and miry with rain)

White violets = Spring: 4th April 2021
Wayside flowers, such a treat to see: 4th April 2021
A real star! See how he’s giving me his best profile: 4th April 2021
The route takes us across arable land: 4th April 2021
and past this characterful old house: 4th April 2021
To thread us along this behedged path: 4th April 2021
A glimpse of the marsh at the end of this lane: 4th April 2021
Finally onto a another pasture (here’s usually the soggiest stretch of path, today isn’t too bad): 4th April 2021
And here I find a pair of nesting gulls (and another chance to test the extent of zoom): 4th April 2021

After that, I’m onto a busy road with the sun at last shining. Hope you enjoyed the walk. I did (once I warmed up)

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New Camera

Posted on April 10, 2021 by crispina kemp
8 April 2021

What do you do when you can’t get out because Winter has descended again and you have a new camera you’re itching to try? You focus on the tulips in the vase by the window.

Fill the Frame from the list provided for #2021picoftheweek provided by Maria Antonia

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