Tawny Grisette: 📷 06/10/2020
This is not a common fungus, and to be at its birth… wow! Definitely qualifies for A Day in the Life, another title achieved in Maria’s Antonia’s #2020picoftheweek
Tawny Grisette: 📷 06/10/2020
Tawny Grisette: 📷 06/10/2020
Crimson’s Creative Challenge #100
I walked a woodland dark and damp
Until I came upon a bank
Moss encrusted
Soft and green
Where I met the mellowest man I’ve ever seen
Not a care did crease his brow
Rich and loving was his soul
He said for me to sit a while
There we talked soul to soul
Till from this Earth we had to go
No mine, no yours, but ours
Our love, like gold
CCC#100
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.
It’s been raining much of late. Don’t believe me?
South Quay, Great Yarmouth: Sunday 4th September, 7:30 am
And in wet weather, the fungi proliferate. Enjoy…
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Bryony berries 📷 28/09/2020
Umbellifer seed head: 📷 28/09/2020
Yellow flag seed-pods: 📷 28/09/2020
Rosehips: 📷 28/09/2020
Haws (fruit of the thorn): 📷 28/09/2020
All photos were taken in Damgate Carr, Acle, and along the adjoining stretch of Weaver’s Way
Mousehold Heath: July 2019
See there on the heath, she’s sitting
Bell-flower jingling, chuckling, giggling
See there on the heath, she is spreading
Purpling, rusting, adding colour
That’s Heather, our daughter
27 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Heather
On Saturday 12th Sept I got up real early and bused out to Acle, thence a walk that skirted the grazing marshes as far as Wickampton, just inland from River Yare. 10-miles round trip. When I related the walk to my daughter, she wanted to make the walk too. So again the early rising, this time in the rain.
The start: 📷 23/09/2020
Damage Carr in the wet 📷 23/09/2020
Yea, well, the word carr does mean wet woodland. So…
Weaver’s Way 📷 23/09/2020
Weaver’s Way runs from Cromer (North Norfolk coast) to Great Yarmouth (East Norfolk coast). While some of it follows lesser-used roads, most of its 61 miles are along footpaths and other trackways
Autumnal Reeds and Great Willowherb: 📷 23/09/2020
Have I said that I love reeds? I love reeds 🧡
The Fleet at Acle Marshes: 📷 23/09/2020
The Fleet forms, as it were, the main artery for this part of the draining system
Detail of flora along the Fleet: 📷 23/09/2020
At last, the cloud is breaking: 📷 23/09/2020
It wasn’t to last. But at least there was no more rain
Beef cattle 📷 23/09/2020
Farm buildings: 📷 23/09/2020
We’re off the marsh now and we’re walking on a proper road. Single laned with some wide and deep puddles.
Sunrise? 📷 23/09/2020
It might look like sunrise, and we are looking to east. But this is 9:00 am.
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What does one call a gathering of trees? A Twitter-friend of mine suggested an Ent-Moot and we decided Tolkein wouldn’t mind.
23/09/2020
Destination reached: Wickhampton grazing marshes stretch down the river. But gates were closed, the farmer moving his cattle, so we could go no further. Myself, I was content to take photos of the clouds.
See this Tuesday Treat for flora and fungi from this and related wetland walks
De Gallant: 📷 23/09/2020
Something Old, Something New. another title achieved in Maria’s Antonia’s #2020picoftheweek
I arrived home from my walk on 23rd September to find this moored just across the quay from me. Delighted and curious to see a schooner in port, I had to investigate.
De Gallant belongs to Blue Schooner Company who operate a Voyage Cargo Scheme offering opportunities for producers to ship their goods using the power of the wind. The ships are manned by volunteers. On this occasion, it was carrying coffee and rum from South America.
Crimson’s Creative Challenge #99
The bus trundled on through the rain, through a peopleless landscape. Where would their journey end?
And who was driving this bus? Rosemary asked those passengers nearest. Had they seen?
Someone called back from the front, “I caught a glimpse of grey.”
“You mean, a grey uniform? But that’s not the colour of this company.”
“Not uniform. Skin. And he’s a big headed fella.”
Nausea swept through Rosemary. Fear tingled every part of her. They’d been abducted, they all knew that. But by Greys?
Those wretched aliens again.
CCC99
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 interested, this was the 6:25 am bus I took on 23rd Sept, Great Yarmouth to Acle. Double-decker, top deck. As you can see, it was raining.
The numbers of wildflowers diminish while we still wait upon the autumnal plethora of fungi. But here are some. Enjoy
Like a clutch of eggs: 📷 12/09/2020
You can see how small these are by the size of the moss surrounding them
Halloween garlands? No, bryony: 📷 12/09/2020
Bull-rushes and Great Willowherb:📷 12/09/2020
Oh, that’s me: 📷 12/09/2020
Fungi & Lichen: 📷 12/09/2020
Webs on hogweed: 📷 12/09/2020
Meringues? Swirled Potatoes? Na. Fungi: 📷 12/09/2020
Tutsan (wild Rose of Sharon): 📷 12/09/2020
Tiny fungi-caps : 📷 12/09/2020
These had sprung up during the morning. Not there when I passed on the way out, yet there when I returned.
Shaggy Inkcaps: 📷 14/09/2020
Found these while taking photos of the sunset on Breydon Water.
Water mint (?spearmint?): 📷 17/09/2020
All summer, trying to get a decent photo of this mint. Finally, at summer’s end…
Earth-Ball (fungus, edible, large): 📷 17/09/2020
Plantain: 📷 17/09/2020
Such a common plant, much ignored. Yet it’s one of my favourites
And as we begin, so we end: 📷 17/09/2020
Fungi, the alpha and omega… hope you enjoyed.
