Crimson’s Creative Challenge #130

Posted on May 5, 2021 by crispina kemp
CCC130

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: April Flowers

Posted on May 4, 2021 by crispina kemp
Bluebells, of course: 22 April 2021
22 April 2021
New leaf of Rowan (Mountain Ash): 22 April 2021
Wood Anemones. Magical: 22 April 2021
Close-up: 22 April 2021
Columbine, more delicate than the garden variety: 22 April 2021
Wood Sorrel (where still the fairies hide): 22 April 2021
22 April 2021
Spring Beauty: 22 April 2021
Ransoms (Wild Garlic): 22 April 2021
Dandelion. And White Butterfly: 22 April 2021
Dandelion and Small Tortoiseshell: 22 April 2021
Marsh Marigolds (Kingcup): 22 April 2021

That’s all folks. Until next week. Hope you enjoyed this little visit to the flowers of my child-days

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Green Hills and Vales

Posted on May 2, 2021 by crispina kemp

April 22nd. The day arrives for our annual return to our childhood home, to the woods where I played Robin Hood and Sir Ivanhoe, where I learned the names of wild flowers. And from the woods a walk along Marriotts Way into Norwich for the bus back to Great Yarmouth on the North Sea coast.

Please, put on your hikers and come along with me.

Grand Lady, Guardian of the Woods: 22 April 2021
22 April 2021
And just look, the bluebells are out: 22 April 2021
22 April 2021
22 April 2021
Heading now to the stream where as a child I paddled, and to the river where as a teen I swam: 22 April 2021
River Tud (a paddling stream): 22 April 2021
And here’s a treat for the eyes: 22 April 2021
Kids don’t swim in the Wensum now, they paddle-board: 22 April 2021
Old Man Willow: 22 April 2021

Of course there were flowers seen along the way. I’ll be showing you a selection on Tuesday.

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On Beltane Eve

Posted on May 1, 2021 by crispina kemp

Wayward! Wayward? That’s what they said.
Wayward, because I wouldn’t follow where they led.
Wayward, because I took a different route.
Wayward, as if I were a woodland brute.
Wayward, because I walked a different way.
Wayward! And now I wait for break of day
When the black-hooded man must come for me.
But better hanged than burned in their god-spelled glee.
Wayward, I celebrate the birth of Earth again
On this today, the Eve of Beltane

77 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Prompt: Wayward

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Admiring the View

Posted on May 1, 2021 by crispina kemp
22nd April 2021

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

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Learning to Fly — Lauren Willmore

Posted on April 30, 2021 by crispina kemp

Learning to Fly: The Spinner’s Game Continues by Crispina Kemp My rating: 5 of 5 stars I read an early version of Learning to Fly and loved it. I’ve also read all the previous Spinner’s Game books, but this isn’t necessary and first time readers can easily jump in here. I’ve always considered myself a […]

Learning to Fly — Lauren Willmore
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CCC129: Old Man of the Woods

Posted on April 29, 2021 by crispina kemp
Crimson’s Creative Challenge #129

Old man? But he would be old if he had lived; he was older than me.

“I’ll be waiting for you right here,” he said every time we parted. “Even if I die, I shall still wait here for you.” And me, the callous bitch, married his brother within a year.

Thirty years since I’ve been here, his brother now joined him in death. And what did I expect to find? His ghost? No, just this carving, done as a self-portrait he’d said.

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #129

Posted on April 28, 2021 by crispina kemp
CCC129

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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Yare Valley Flowers

Posted on April 27, 2021 by crispina kemp

Spring has definitely arrived in the Yare Valley…. enjoy

Few-Flowered Garlic: 15 April 2021
It lined the paths and in the sun smelled (to me) divine: 15 April 2021
Horse Chestnut: 15 April 2021
Norwegian Maple: 15 April 2021
Cherry: 15 April 2021
15 April 2021
Moschatel: 15 April 2021
Violets: 15 April 2021
White violets: 15 April 2021
Cuckooflower aka Lady’s Smock: 15 April 2021
Marsh Marigold aka Kingcup: 15 April 2021
Nettles… oh yes, and a pheasant: 15 April 2021
Cow Parsley… everywhere: 15 April 2021

Hope you enjoyed this little taste of spring. More next week

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Something Different

Posted on April 26, 2021 by crispina kemp

Monday is usually my day for answering Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt but this week I answered it straight into the comments. Which frees up today for something… different.

Mandarin Duck: 15 April 2021
Close-up: 15 April 2021
Mallard duck… looks like she’s fending off Mr Fancy Pants! 15 April 2021
And now she’s called in Barny Barnacle Goose for extra defence: 15 April 2021
Meanwhile, Mr Mallard Drake is in a tiff: 15 April 2021
The Egyptian Geese watch the spectacle: 15 April 2021
And Mr Cobb Swan casts a watchful eye on his family: 15 April 2021
Whitlingham Park… where birds of a feather flock together (sometimes in harmony): 15 April 2021
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