Sunday Post Extra: After the Rain

Posted on September 1, 2019 by crispina kemp

The totally bizarre effect of sunshine after the rain on a mudflat, the tide rapidly ebbing.

Breydon Water: 28 August 2019

The interesting thing is how much the mud is greening this year, something I didn’t notice at the time of taking the photo. I can find two possible reasons for that. 1: the combination of sea and river waters that twice daily cover these flat no longer rise so high. 2: the water-carried silts that form these flats have accumulated to such a degree the daily tides no long abrade them.

BTW, if you wonder where the birds, they upped at my approach, and settled on several nice places behind me.

BTW#2: I haven’t messed with this photo, I do swear it (I wouldn’t know how)

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Sunday Picture Post: An Uncommon Visitor to Town

Posted on September 1, 2019 by crispina kemp

Time was, the wheatear was commonly seen, at the least around the rural villages. But I hadn’t seen one for… a very long while. So I was somewhat surprised to see this one, perched on Breydon wall, a spit’s distance from the town.

Wheatear: 28 August 2019

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The Last of the Summer Rain

Posted on August 31, 2019 by crispina kemp

My walks have been well-timed this summer. Until this week. This week the heavens opened.

Great Yarmouth in the rain: 28 August 2019

At the confluence of the Bure and Yare, the rain was yet to fall. But I reckon it’s enough to claim the title Rainy Day

For details of #2019picoftheweek challenge see MariaAntonia

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I have a new name…

Posted on August 30, 2019 by crispina kemp

NOTE. NOTE. NOTE. NOTE.

As of yesterday, crimsonprose has a new name. Mine. AND a domain. Yep, after seven years of hiding behind the blog’s name, I’ve arrived. crispinakemp.com

But other than that, nothing changes. All links remain. Your comments will reach me just the same, whichever name you chose to use.

Reasons for this amazing [😊] change?

Crimson has been purloined. Used as a dot.com with capitalised C & P by someone who specialises in “Adult erotic literature”. I do assure you, that isn’t me. So, thought it time to change.

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Any Ideas How…?

Posted on August 30, 2019 by crispina kemp

I am perplexed, and truly would welcome any suggestions of how this could happen:

Mutford church, Suffolk: 19 August 2019

Facing the west window, my back to the east, yet I’ve captured that east window as a kind of superimposed image. There was nothing reflective between my camera and the rest of the church. Though, as you can see, there were windows to my right.

This is just so weird. Any physicists, lighting engineers or photographers out there who can answer me how?

 

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BTW

Posted on August 30, 2019 by crispina kemp

image by Rafael Juarez on pixabay

BTW I shall be off-line for a while today while my laptop visits the doctor.

I hope to be back on by the evening. But here’s advance warning in case…

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Our Everyday Duty

Posted on August 29, 2019 by crispina kemp

Crimson’s Creative Challenge #42

Six: Five and Six reporting back, Captain. Mission complete.

Captain: Off you go then, Seven and Eight. You know what to do: Lay them straight.

Two (not long back from buckling shoes): Captain, sire, why must we do this every day?

Captain: Because, Elven-lad, it’s our everyday duty; they’re counting on us.

52 words written for Crimson’s Creative Challenge #42

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #42

Posted on August 28, 2019 by crispina kemp

CCC#42

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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Too Old

Posted on August 27, 2019 by crispina kemp

image by StockSnaps on pixabay

My hair grew grey; I dyed it purple.

Yikes, my daughter spluttered, you’re too old for that.

No, I’m not. I’m vintage.

written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt

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What Pegman Saw: High on Her Mid-Summer Feast-Day

Posted on August 26, 2019 by crispina kemp

See the Pole, how it’s rooted in soil… See how it stretches high
See the Wheel rotating upon it… See how it turns the sky
See the Eagle with wings outspread… See the Earth sheltering beneath it
See the Court of divinities… See the star-gods dancing around it
See! Saule… how high she is on her midsummer feast-day.

58 words, written for What Pegman Saw: Riga, Latvia

For Ligo, Saule’s midsummer festival, a bonfire was lit atop a pole, on a hilltop. The pole represents the World Tree, the axis around which the Earth and the Heavens rotate.  Wreaths of flowers decorated the site, the day celebrated with dances, hymns and a meal of cheese and mead. I’d like to think it continues through to this day.

Latvia and Lithuania were the last European countries to relinquish their traditional beliefs and accept Christianity.

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