Sunday Picture Post: Sunday on the Shore

Posted on January 24, 2021 by crispina kemp

While this covid lockdown continues, I have a choice for walks: the estuary or the shore. Hope you like the sea

A walk through town to reach the beach…

7:40 am 17 Jan 2021

The Blue Hour. Everything’s blue and, to my eyes, seem blurred

Britannia Pier: 17 Jan 2021

The pier’s end deck. It’s unbelievable that just 20 yrs ago the smaller ships could still moor here. Now the sea only visits briefly, and that in rough storms. This is due to shifting sands

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Still waiting for the sun to rise. BTW that’s not seaweed on the wrack-line, it’s sea-mat… see this week’s Tuesday Treat

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At last…

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The risen sun paints the sky gold

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It paints the sand and stones as well

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Tide incoming…

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This immature gull stands guard

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While the sanderlings scuttle around in search of fresh tidbits brought by the waves

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I can’t see this without seeing white horses galloping into shore

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The incoming tide is forcing me back from the firmer sand of the surf-&-wrack-line. Time to retreat to the dunes instead (see last Tuesday’s Treat: Dune Community). As the dunes give way to the village of Caister-on-Sea, the ubiquitous but colourful gorse invades

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Fungi, can’t go for a walk without they appear. This is a yellow brain; it has a preference for gorse

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Caister Lifeboat Station… the end of the walk; time to turn around and walk back, though via the village and along the road

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This is run by volunteers, funded entirely by donations

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And finally… to give a little flavour of the place, a car park full of tractors and small fishing boats

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Enjoy the road walk-home!

 

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Tulips in the Sun

Posted on January 23, 2021 by crispina kemp

19 Jan 2021

A whole week of rain and wind. Frustrated with not taking my camera for a walk, I turned inwards. I always have at least one vase of cut flowers; I’d do some flower studies. And so…

Backlight, from the list provided for #2021picoftheweek provided by Maria Antonia

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CCC115: Come With Me

Posted on January 21, 2021 by crispina kemp

Crimson’s Creative Challenge #115

Come with me down to the sea
Through dunes’ eternal green
Come share with me this one last dream
Let us be as once we were
Not torn apart by one cruel year
Let’s join with the ebbing waves
And let them scour us clean
To return again, you with me

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #115

Posted on January 20, 2021 by crispina kemp

CCC115

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: Dune Communities

Posted on January 19, 2021 by crispina kemp

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To the north, south, and east of Great Yarmouth are dunes, one-time grazing for sheep, one-time a place to draw up the fishing boats and mend the nets. These days a swathe of those dunes are lost to housing and what is left is trampled on by dogwalkers and tourists in season. Few look down to see what grows at their feet.

But I’m not the usual casual walker

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To really see some of these plants you need to crouch low

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Others are more readily visible

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The tree lupin I’ve featured before. Not a tree but a low-growing shrub

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But mostly the plants here are carpet-forming

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And lichen abounds

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Can this be lichen too? It’s Cladonia and the little cups are its fruiting bodies

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I could fill a post just on this one lichen…

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But I wouldn’t want to bore you…

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Well, maybe one more…

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And mosses…

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Yes, if you look, you’ll find quite a mixed community growing low amongst the dunes

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Hope you enjoyed this visit to our dunes where even in the depths of winter there is always green

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Sunday Picture Post: A Frosty 10-Mile Walk

Posted on January 17, 2021 by crispina kemp

Saturday 9th January, the day dawns bright. The Met Office claims low wind speeds. Great, a good day for a walk.

It’s late before I set out but the overnight frost remains thick on the ground

9th Jan 2021

With covid lockdown re-enforced, travel’s restricted… Breydon Water here I come

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The 10,000+ widgeons and teal makes quite a pleasant noise. That’s them, looking like the druids facing the Romans across the Menai Straits (Wales). Btw, the tide is ebbing

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Patterns in the flow

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Cobholm Common lies alongside Breydon

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The “road” to the common; it’s been flooded the past 2 months, but not today

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Love this scene… so wintry

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Visual pun. I’ve been losing weight of late. I’ve lost my “spare tyre”

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Breydon… low tide

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Reeds… so many shots I take of reeds

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A different view of the marshes

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The Marsh Road to Burgh Castle. Of a sudden, the cold hits hard

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Berney Arms mill as seen from Burgh Castle

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No, that’s not the same mill. No sails. Loads of birds though. Care to count them? For those with an interest, they’re mostly Black-Tailed Godwits

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The mudflats change according to the light; it’s now afternoon and the tide is flowing

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Sunset is at 4:00 pm. There’s an hour to go

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Nearly home…

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And back to the beginning, Haven Bridge at sunset

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Hope you enjoyed, and you’re feeling as warm and toasty as I am… if a little weary

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All That Glitters

Posted on January 16, 2021 by crispina kemp

9th Jan 2021

On this one bush alone there were at least 50 such sparkles. I was happy to capture just these few.

Sparkles, from the list provided for #2021picoftheweek provided by Maria Antonia.

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CCC114: Safe in Isolation

Posted on January 14, 2021 by crispina kemp

Crimson’s Creative Challenge #114

Someone had been there. How could I tell?

Was it the lingering scent?

Or the hairs, short and red, surely from a fox?

Maybe it was the prints melted through the frozen mud?

No, it was that break in the icy crust. My family dwelt within, believing themself safe in their isolation.

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #114

Posted on January 13, 2021 by crispina kemp

CCC114

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: Details

Posted on January 12, 2021 by crispina kemp

Hi. A week of rain kept me in but Saturday dawned bright so I put on my thermals and shoes and off I went, getting a head-start, as it happened, on a head cold. These photos are just a few of the details; I’ll cover the walk later

Here we go round the mulberry bush on a cold and frosty morning

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Frozen raindrops

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Frosted Alexanders

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Frosted seats… I don’t think I’ll sit just now

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And now the sun sends out her warming rays

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Yet in sheltered places, everything remains frozen

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I took an awful lot of shots of reeds… orange in the sunlight

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A certain sign of spring… pussy willow

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Crystals… I couldn’t resist a close-up

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What makes this frozen puddle sparkle so?

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More signs of spring… the elder tree with buds bursting

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I think this is a thrush’s feeding ground. Loads of empty snail-shells amongst the frosty mosses

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Some plants even in decay look good…

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No words required

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Pretty as winter flowers, the swollen ovaries of ivy…

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…to be followed by the berries,  on the blue-side of black

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Can I take a walk without I find some fungi? Jelly Ears

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And now a drum-roll please, build up the tension… what has she to show us? I have waited, I have tried, I have repeatedly failed. Until Saturday… THIS… THESE

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I am not a bird photographer, but this Little Egret has been breeding on our marshes for several years, but timid and elusive. To capture it so has made my year

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