By Candlelight: 10 Dec 20202
How many miles to Babylon?
Three score miles and ten
Can I get there by candlelight?
Yes, you can get there by candlelight
You can get there and back again
[Old English Nursery Rhyme]
By Candle Light, another title achieved in Maria’s Antonia’s #2020picoftheweek
Crimson’s Creative Challenge #109
“Hey, Dad, take a look here,” Young Dicken said, standing dangerously close to the edge of the cliff.
“You get back from there,” his father said. “We’re here on holiday, I don’t want you dead.”
“But, Dad…”
His father edged closer, peered over. “Crikey. That’s got to be worth a shot.”
“Better than all those photos of birds,” Dickens said.
His father zoomed in with his camera… and drew back. He blinked and leaned over the cliff edge again… and took special care to focus. Then he phoned his office.
“Yea, it’s me, Detective Inspector Ridgens. Yes, I know I’m on holiday but… you know that jewel heist a few years back, getaway car never discovered? I think I’ve just found it. Am I sure? Oh yes.”
There was no mistaking the glint of gold in that sand.
Crimson’s Creative Challenge #109
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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
And for those who want a closer look, I risked my life and limbs to bring you this…
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I couldn’t get any closer; the beach is closed to humans
As promised, some touches of colour from our misty walk…
The huge downy leaves of the Tree Mallow
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And a late bloom from the Common Mallow
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Hogweed, always a reliable late bloomer… in both white and pink forms
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And strung in the hedges hops and bryony
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Ivy, a delight to see
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Oh, but what is this? They’re the seeds of the Tree Mallow
26 Nov 2020
Is it a photo of bracken, or of the dead-nettles? Maybe it’s just a picture of raindrops on grass?
26 Nov 2020
The autumnal leaves of the dogrose. The lane was lined with them, promising a beautiful walk come next June
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And sloe… so late in the year to be holding its berries
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We’ve marked a repeat of this walk for next spring/early summer
2 Dec 2020
I said poetic. He said pathetic.
I said realistic. He allowed artistic.
I said quizzical. He said risible.
I said erotic. He laughed and said quixotic.
26 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Quixotic
Hi, fellow walkers. Don your boots (make sure they’re waterproof), for today we’re to walk through the mist.
The walk starts here, at Haven Bridge 6:25 am, the sun yet to rise, the mist just beginning to form
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The bus takes us to Lowestoft where we catch a bus out to Kessingland. We’ve missed the sunrise, yet it lingers on the mist
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Gisleham: A chilly start to the walk
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We’re to follow the Hundred Stream across the meadows where the mist is thickest
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A postbox lends colour to a landscape paled out
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Heading to Rushmere the sun breaks through
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And across the meadows to Mutford
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So many photos taken here; which ones to share?
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These trees begged a photograph… back-to-back
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Wet misty meadows
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And finally onto higher land where Old Mutford Hall hides behind a muddle of roofs
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Heading into the village, fat-faced lambs graze in a field near the road. This is a breed unfamiliar to me. They look so cuddly
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I love signage. But what’s this: The footpath to heaven?
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The oaks hold out a golden welcome as we head towards Mutford Wood
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The footpath passes through someone’s garden… where strange creatures lurk in wait
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And into the woods
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Thereafter a long bridleway takes us to a bus stop and the bus ride home
Bye-bye trees. Till next time
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Hope you enjoyed the walk. No flowers along the way? Oh yes, but I’m saving them for Tuesday
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What more need I say? Rustic, another title achieved in Maria’s Antonia’s #2020picoftheweek
Crimson’s Creative Challenge
Oh where, oh where, has my master gone?
Oh where, oh where, can he be?
He threw me a ball
I went to fetch
And when I returned
He’d left without me.
Oh where, tell me where, can he be?
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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
These are the plants I found on my walk on Sunday 22 November.
This time of the year the ivy has almost finished flowering and is setting up berries
22 Nov 2020
Yes, flowers. Your eyes do not deceive you. Variously known as Blackthorn, Sloe and Quickthorn… quick for its life and quick for its flowers, the first plum-species of the year (next year, that is)
22 Nov 2020
The burr that gives burdock its name… here catching dewdrops
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Willow… I think it’s the osier. Such a startling colour in the sun
22 Nov 2020
Reed heads. But of course, this is Norfolk, famed for its reeds
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And finally that other marshland lover, alder. Here seen are the cones, the fruits of the tree. Of old, these cones were used to yield a deep bloody red dye.
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Hope you enjoyed. But alas, as we grind into winter, the flowers, leaves and seeds are yielding less of interest
