Crimson’s Creative Challenge #98

Posted on September 23, 2020 by crispina kemp

CCC#98

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.

This is not a set-up photo. I was walking along the Cargate Lane in Saxlingham and there was this shoe. Just the one. What is the story behind it? The mind boggles. So I give it to you to imagine.

BTW, I had to tone down the greenery to enable the shoe to stand out.

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Tuesday Treat: Mist on the Water

Posted on September 22, 2020 by crispina kemp

All last Tuesday I’d kept an eye on the weather forecast. Would we have cloud; would we have a good sunset? Two nights before it had been glorious. But how many times can you take photos of a red ball in the sky? You need cloud, cloud disperses the glow, makes it more interesting.

Finally, the forecast predicted cloud-cover at sunset. But would it be too cloudy? As I left my house the air tasted of mist. I crossed the bridge, mist obscuring the further reaches of the river. I took a deep breath. What sort of photos would I get.

I got these:

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Avebury

Posted on September 21, 2020 by crispina kemp

A mega-megalith at Avebury

Megalith: noun, singular, from Ancient Greek megas (great) and líthos, (stone).

Naturally occurring megaliths are found throughout the world. Alignments of megaliths are less common and clearly the work of human hands.

The best-known English examples are at Stonehenge and Avebury. The Avebury setting contains the most mega megaliths!!!

49 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Megalith

Photos from scans, the originals taken on film in 2004.

 

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Sunday Picture Post: Oulton Village to Hopton

Posted on September 20, 2020 by crispina kemp

Via Flixton Decoy, Flixton Marshes, Somerleyton, Ashby and Lound. 9th September 2020

Iconic Tree: 📷 09/09/2020

I know some of you have seen this iconic tree before. It’s not that it marks the start of the walk, though it does mark where we have to turn off ‘proper’ roads, just that I can’t resist it.

Sidney (so I’ve been told): 📷 09/09/2020

Last time here we were greeted by geese. This time by Sidney (at least, that’s what I’m told is his name)

Through the farmyard and down the track to the marsh: 📷 09/09/2020

Flixton Marshes: 📷 09/09/2020

Flat marshland isn’t the best of subjects. But I’m getting the knack. Look for something of interest, something vertical. A gate will do nicely.

Silver Birch, Ancient Mother of the Woodlands: 📷 09/09/2020

I’ve photographed this tree so many times. Birch and oak are the first colonisers of wasteland.  This one sits proud atop an old estate boundary which probably doubled as flood defence.

Green dragonfly: 📷 09/09/2020

I’ll leave you to search for it. It is there…

A hill! 📷 09/09/2020

Amazing, I’m just over the border from “flat as a pancake” Norfolk. Yet here are hills. Those hills once were dunes grown out of beautiful white sandy shores.

The footpath: 📷 09/09/2020

Wending between the Waveney Valley and those Sand Hills is this path. This year it’s passable. It isn’t always, the nettles and brambles closing it over

A tree! 📷 09/09/2020

Although there are trees all along this path, it once forming a boundary, this one, in particular, caught my affections. It looks like a witch’s scrawny, craggy hand.

Large White Butterfly on a dandelion: 📷 09/09/2020

Since changing to the phone-camera I haven’t had much success with photographing butterflies. A combination of factors. I have a defective right eye (awaiting op) and I’m still getting used to the camera. But I’m pleased with this one cos cameras don’t like yellow and white when the sun’s full on them

White moth caught on spider’s web: 📷 09/09/2020

I know you can’t see the web, but it is there.

Single Track Road with Passing Places: 📷 09/09/2020

Typical road in this borderland

Somerleyton’s claim to fame: 📷 09/09/2020

A medusa of an oak-tree: 📷 09/09/2020

Approaching Hopton: 📷 09/09/2020

Heading towards Gt Yarmouth, the land flattens and the clouds gather in ominous darkness.

But it’s been a good day. Hope you enjoyed your 10-mile walk. I posted the photos of flowers and fungi from the walk last Tuesday.

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The Fence

Posted on September 19, 2020 by crispina kemp

The Fence: 17 September 2020

What more needs to be said. Clearly, the fence has seen better days!

Better Days, another title achieved in Maria’s Antonia’s #2020picoftheweek

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Riddle Me Riddles But Do Not Lie

Posted on September 18, 2020 by crispina kemp

Breydon Water: 15/09/2020

I was happy
I was
Alone
I didn’t need anyone
Until that virus caused lockdown
What you cannot have, you desperately want
I couldn’t have touches
And hugs
And kisses
He knew that
He played on it
Said the words
Pressed the buttons
That fired the triggers
Released the hormones
Dopamine
Endorphins
He hooked me into addiction
Fool man, he’d no need
I give my love
Freely
Willingly
To all who want it
For I am a vessel
Ever refilling
Take it, please, before I burst with it
He talked of friendship
To be honest
He was a liar
I fired him

Rather I’d have a straight-talking man
Though he might be a riddler
One who comes with respect
Who speaks soul to soul
Who wakes in me ancient memories
Those memories began this day.

Continuing my summer of romantic poetry…
This composed while watching the sunset over Breydon.

 

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CCC97: Fishing

Posted on September 17, 2020 by crispina kemp

Crimson’s Creative Challenge #97

“What are you after?” I asked as I passed the boy and his mother.

“Bass,” said the boy.

“Mullet,” said the mother.

“What have you caught?” I asked.

“Nothing,” said the mother.

“The mullet won’t bite,” the boy said.

“And why should they?” said the mother. “Would you take from a new source when you’ve plenty of food on your own ground?”

I nodded and walked on.

 

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #97

Posted on September 16, 2020 by crispina kemp

CCC#97

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: Flowers and Fungi of Early September

Posted on September 15, 2020 by crispina kemp

A combined post of flowers and fungi…

Evening Primrose: 9 Sept 2020

Hips: 9 Sept 2020

Hops: 9 Sept 2020

So musical, this time of year… (Hip-Hop)

Himalayan Balsam: 5 Sept 2020

Rosebay: 9 Sept 2020

Rosebay: 9 Sept 2020

Rosebay: 9 Sept 2020

Forgive the repetition but this time of year I get obsessed with Rosebay

Common Reed: 9 Sept 2020

Stealing its colour from my hair!

My hair: 5 Sept 2020

Common Reed: 9 Sept 2020

Fading to winter…

Bracken: 9 Sept 2020

When bracken turns we know that autumn is near…

Brittlestems: 1 Sept 2020

Dryads Saddle: 1 Sept 2020

Lichen: 1 Sept 2020

I make no apologies. I like lichen

Lichen & fungi: 9 Sept 2020

Lichen: 9 Sept 2020

Closeup Lichen: 9 Sept 2020

Common Earthball: 9 Sept 2020

Waxcap (probably): 9 Sept 2020

That’s all for now, folks. Hope you enjoyed these photos.

I’m out again twice this week; who knows what treasures I’ll find.

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Hot-DMing

Posted on September 14, 2020 by crispina kemp

📷 12/09/2020 CK

Summer spent in tweeting
Chatting, texting, hot-DMing
Work outstanding shifted aside
A summer of fun I’ll not deny
But autumn brings deadlines
Reminds me what I’m supposed to be doing
Time to work, to rectify

35 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Rectify

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