from Google Maps
At last at the ferry and the ship leaves soon.
But, Ma, haven’t we time for an ice-cream cone?
If you’re quick, and you get me a frozen drink on a stick.
Yikes, now that’s the klaxon sound!
Catch those drips, one last lick,
We’ll have to hurry, Pa will be waiting,
Seven years away, now homeward bound.
Written for What Pegman Saw
January isn’t the month for fungi. Yet two years back (2017), the weather being unusually mild, I found these little gems, all in a row.
Don’t miss the orange-capped specimen (lower right) trying to hide : 11th January 2017
And, as a bonus … these brackets are most often seen as solid-looking colourful fans. Yet here, in winter-growth mode, those outer loops become almost translucent.
Not often seen, turkey-tail brackets in winter-gowth mode. 11th January 2017
Not the first photo I’ve posted that features pylons—I do confess to a perverse passion for them. Neither was the photo recently taken. But …
The line of pylons is greatly compressed, by use of f16 stop: 31st May 2017
… I can’t imagine a photo more suited to #2019picoftheweek challenge title: Leading Lines
There’s a total of 8 pylons in this shot.
For details of #2019picoftheweek challenge see MariaAntonia
Crimson’s Creative Challenge #11
The Norfolk sheep
Her coat doth keep
All the winter through
For if cut slick
And to the quick
Naked, she turns blue.
CCC11
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)
If you tag it #CCC others should be able to find it by ‘Searching’ in the WP Reader (fingers crossed)
Here’s wishing you inspirational explosions. And FUN.
Details of the photo are given, if relevant, below this line
Dale, at A DelectableLife tagged me as a link in a photo-prompt chain. And what the jig, maybe I can’t resist the challenge.
So here’s the photo she gave me. And below is my ‘inspired’ story …
What a day to take a fall
Grandma’s birthday, Grandpa books the village hall
Cousin Rachel removed her shoes
Grandma blundered over those.
And now to forge the next link in the chain … This is how it’s done:
So, without further ado, I nominate the following three bloggers, who, I do stress, are under no obligation to play along.
2. Michael at Morpethroad
3. The Bag Lady
And here’s the new photo-prompt. Enjoy.
Though I can’t imagine what stories this might inspire …
Jamie looked at the road: endlessly long, featureless, boring. Like her life. She looked down at the river. Turbid. Like her head since her mother died.
She patted her jeans back-pocket; heard the crackle of the blister pack. She patted her purse, heavy with her father’s gun. She looked over the parapet.
Which way to go? Let the traffic decide.
Red for the gun. White for the sleeping tabs, prescribed, never taken. Brown for the river.
The next car was green.
Wordcount: 81
Written for What Pegman Saw
A probable dapperling: 11th October 2017
Not sure of the species, but I’m thinking possibly a dapperling. Just get a peep at that textured stipe. Wow. That and the cap, a bit of a giveaway.
They do say an Englishman’s home is his castle. Seems this chap has raised his drawbridge and issued a warning.
Message received: photo 8th October 2018
#2019picoftheweek challenge: Home Sweet Home
For details of #2019picoftheweek challenge see MariaAntonia
Crispina’s Creative Challenge
Up the hill, set to the side,
Is a camp, a gypsy camp.
To there this morning I dare
To take my Dickie fresh baked bread
To show my love that I care.
Just after I took this photo I met with a woman leading a horse, a gypsy cob. According to my grandfather, a horse breeder and dealer, these were ‘dickies’, though I think that’s just a generic Norfolk term for a horse.
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