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Forever Green

Posted on February 20, 2021 by crispina kemp

Tamarix 9th Jan 2021

Tamarix (aka Salt Cedar) looking yet more delicate with its fine tracery of frosty needles.

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

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CCC119: I Remember

Posted on February 18, 2021 by crispina kemp

Crimson’s Creative Challenge 119

I remember when you left us
Cold and lonely on this shore
No light nor gold within our life
Gone from us forever more.

And here and now you do return
Head hung low, remorsefully
Barely strength to greet the day
Expecting us to welcome thee.

And I say, welcome to thee
The New Year’s Sun

This photo was taken New Year’s Day as it finally emerged from the mist

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #119

Posted on February 17, 2021 by crispina kemp

CCC119

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: Valentine Flowers

Posted on February 16, 2021 by crispina kemp

Roses are red
Violets are blue
But tulips are all
I want from you…

Feb 2021

But why keep it to pink

Feb 2021

Or you could give me alstromeria, lily of the Incas

Feb 2021

I’ll take photos of them no matter what…

July 2020

Or, if you must, then I’ll accept a rose…

Aug 2020

Wow! All these for me?

July 2020

And these are for my father…

July 2020

PS: All flowers bought by me. No use waiting for a fella to do it!

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A Heart Full of Love

Posted on February 15, 2021 by crispina kemp

image by Gerd Altmann on Pixabay

A heart full of love
The greatest joy
That I possess

11 words, written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Possess

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Sunday Picture Post: Memories of a Warmer Day

Posted on February 14, 2021 by crispina kemp

I’m not usually a weather-wimp but high winds coupled with sub-zero temperatures… ain’t no fun walking beach nor marsh. And so this dive into the archives.

14th February 2017 and the sun shines and the air is warm and I catch a bus and another bus and by 9:00 am I arrive at Poringland, and the second highest point in (flat) Norfolk. Two aerial masts constructed during WWII provide a landmark for miles around (here’s just one)

14 Feb 2017

From Poringland to Upper Stoke… where I stop to admire the snowdrops

14 Feb 2017

Leaving the road I follow a footpath across fields grazed by sheep

14 Feb 2017

This is “big tree” country…

14 Feb 2017

The path edges a woodland…

14 Feb 2017

where I’m delighted to see the hazel’s catkins…

14 Feb 2017

and yet more big trees (2 shots, same tree)

14 Feb 2017

Looking back…

14 Feb 2017

And looking down…
btw, the winding line is a lane and to the far side of it is one of the earliest known Anglo-Saxon burial sites in England

14 Feb 2017

The Tas Valley where in Roman times stood the regional city of the Iceni (Boudicca’s people) Venta Icenorum

14 Feb 2017

The remaining walls fail to impress me
(I’m used the well-preserved walls of C3rd Roman fort at Burgh Castle)

14 Feb 2017

Within the old town the first Christians here built their church, now dedicated to East Anglia’s own martyred Saint Edmund

14 Feb 2017

A walk by the river, finding a place to stop for my lunch. Incredible, 2,000 years ago this was the wharf; here Roman galleys and barges moored to unload their wares brought up river from Burgh Castle (just outside Gt Yarmouth)

14 Feb 2017

As ever, I hope you enjoyed the walk. I know I did. It was so warm, my jacket came off, I walked bare-armed. Today, four years on, I shiver.

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My Little Lamp

Posted on February 13, 2021 by crispina kemp

8th February 2021

Most mornings I take a photo of this lamppost from various angles as a focal point for whatever the sky is doing. This time I took the photo at night.

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

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CCC118: On Such a Lovely Warm Spring Day

Posted on February 11, 2021 by crispina kemp

Crimson’s Creative Challenge #118

Into the woods to play
On such a lovely warm spring day.
If at the Beech Tree I knock by three
The Woodland Mother lets me sit on her knee;
She’ll tell me tales of the woodland gnomes
Who beneath the woodland bank have made their homes;
Stories too of the woodland elf
Who tends the herbs that give us health.
And then to a sunny woodland dell
The whereabouts I shall not tell,
To stretch and laze throughout the day
And watch the fairies at their play.

Cos I love to have fun!