Crimson’s Creative Challenge #93
Great Yarmouth’s famous rows run East to West and channel the health-giving sea breezes. Those “breezes” helped to fight off the Black Death when it hit in the years 1347-1351, killing a third of Europe’s population. Those wind-channelling rows did a pretty good job of cleaning away other diseases in the ensuing centuries.
But now, those very rows are a problem. They’re not six-foot wide. Some are barely 4-foot. How do we social distance in that?
CCC 93
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:
You have plenty of scope and only two criteria:
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.
For those who wish to know, the photo shows one of Great Yarmouth’s famous rows (narrow lanes or alleys that run east-west throughout the old town.
Following fast upon (or under) Marshland Skies… some of the flowers seen on the two walks made (4th & 10th August 2020). They’re not flowers specific to marshland yet tend to grow in abundance there undisturbed by plough and harvester
Poppies and Corn Marigolds: 4th August 2020
Arable flowers, true, because we had to cross a cornfield.
Thistledown: 4th August 2020
A reminder of what will become of my purple hair!
Tansy: 4th August 2020
This year this one-time herbal remedy for intestinal worms is flowering in great abundance
Traveller’s Joy: 4th August 2020
A scrambling climber with several names. Best known is Old Man’s Beard (for its fluffy-like seed heads). It’s related to the clematis we grow in our gardens.
Great Willow Herb: 10th August 2020
I’d been trying all summer to get a good shot of this one. The sun bleaches the colour, or the wind won’t leave it alone. But finally…
Field Bindweed: 10th August 2020
Another that’s tricky: the sun tends to bleach all the colour. Happy with this one. It was scrambling everywhere along the tracks and paths.
And that’s all for now, folks. I’m hoping to get out on Thursday, but if the weather prohibits I do have the photos I took this Saturday, and a story to go with them
image by jajalaba0 on pixabay
“Fair maid, I espy a loose thread. May I pull it… to see where it leads?”
“And where might it lead?” she asked in feigned innocence.
“Through wooded hills to Bedfordshire.”
“Where you’ll take me?” she asked with a jostle of shoulders.
42 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Jostle
It had not been my intention to keep my eyes on the sky. But the sky god gave me such wonderful vistas…
Tuesday 4th August. It was a pleasantly warm day.
Early sun trapped by the willow: 4th August 2020
The first meadow… not yet on the marshes
An interesting cloud formation: 4th August 2020
Burgh Castle’s grazing marshes. I believe if you squint you might see some horses
Ripe corn in the field beyond: 4th August 2020
Wow! 4th August 2020
This is a progression of the earlier cloud
Ahead Roman ruins: 4th August 2020
And that wonderful cloud gives way to cottonwool balls
More of them clouds: 4th August 2020
Looking back over Breydon Water
The wind gets up: 4th August 2020
The confluence of the rivers Yare and Waveney, it’s always windy here. And the famous Berney Arms Windmill
Roman fort at Burgh Castle: 4th August 2020
Two of the bastions. The perimeter wall is extant except where it faces the river.
at Burgh Castle Fishermans Inn: 4th August 2020
Watching the river traffic while enjoying a coffee. Two miles left to catch the bus home.
I hope you enjoyed these vistas. Next week I shall post the flowers I saw on the way.
Angles Way (Burgh Castle): 5th August 2020
Such an odd notice, and a weird place to put it. I had to Take Note, another title achieved in Maria’s Antonia’s #2020picoftheweek
Now we’re past the solstice, the nights draw in, the mornings break later, while yet it’s warm (ok, it’s hot!). Encouragement enough for me to go wandering with the camera.
Wednesday 5th August. Sunset around 8:30 pm. Breydon Water
Breydon Water: 5th August 2020
Breydon Water: 5th August 2020
Breydon Water: 5th August 2020
Just three of the 400+ photos I came home with. A really difficult choice
Wednesday 12th August. Great Yarmouth beach, sunrise 5:45 am
Pastel tints on a mist-swathed sea: 12th August 2020
The orb of the sun barely visible through the banks of mist: 12th August 2020
The mist takes the sun’s rays and diffuses them: 12th August 2020
She blazes. Worth the wait! 12th August 2020
Crispina’s Creative Challenge 92
His name was Noah
A bit of a bore
He bought an old boat
That didn’t float
He patched it, caulked it and sealed it
But up got the wind, waves driven before it
Which then did steal it.
Alas.
CCC92
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:
You have plenty of scope and only two criteria:
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.
image by Javier Rodriguez on pixabay
You, my love since ancient days, my own soul’s mate
I accept, I capitulate
From you, my love, I can no longer run
My love for you, you’ve once again won
And so this oath, ancient and true
Forever my heart is thine as yours is mine
Across the centuries to entwine
Until all ceases and sets us apart
Until then, my lord, you hold my heart.
crispina kemp 