Crimson’s Christmas Haiku

Posted on December 24, 2018 by crispina kemp
blue star by geralt

image by Geralt on pixabay

Christmas star rising
Western cults unobliging
Cash registers ring

With a wish for Christmas Peace to you all.

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Sunday Fungi: Hidden Away

Posted on December 23, 2018 by crispina kemp

Not all fungi like to flash their colours. Some are shy babies, not even content to lie disguised amidst autumn leaves.

Hideaway Fungi

Photo: 1 October 2018

These camera-shy fungi were hiding in the deep shadows beneath the roots of a wind-blown tree. But lucky for me the sun then shone! I shall say nothing of the dirty knees and the crick in the neck and the various nasties that also were there. A photographer must suffer for her craft!

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Little Beads of Winter

Posted on December 22, 2018 by crispina kemp
winter cp

These red berries of bryony epitomise the typical Norfolk winter: taken 27 November 2018

It’s rare for the typical snow-scene to happen along the east coast of Norfolk, though it happens plenty inland. So rather than wait … #2018picoftheweek: Winter

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My Solstice Wish

Posted on December 21, 2018 by crispina kemp

Seasons Greetings A wish for stillness … To travel inwards … To hold to goodness … Embrace with love

This, with Season’s Greetings, I wish to those who follow this blog, with special affection for those who have helped me so much this year. No need to name you, you know who you are!

For those who are interested, my sister emailed the basic photo taken of the frost on her car windscreen. Twenty-five miles away, I was enjoying a warm sunny day!

I played with it, tweaked it, helped it to pop. And made of it something … jewel-like. I’d been looking for an image to accompany this wish. Between my sister and I, we came up with something that fit.

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Tangerine Dreams and Apricot Kisses CCC6

Posted on December 20, 2018 by crispina kemp
sunset wreck 1

Crimson’s Creative Challenge #6

An hour before sunset on a hot August day
mists rise, hints of tangerine, apricot kisses
still waters beneath, spread in negative echoes
a leaden flow into mercury pools.

Written for Crimson’s Creative Challenge #6

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #6

Posted on December 19, 2018 by crispina kemp
sunset wreck 1

CCC6

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 link your post to 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

If you think you’ve seen the photo before, I did use one similar for the title Sunset in the #2018picoftheweek challenge. This is Breydon Water, all that remains of the one time Great Estuary; it hides away at the back of Great Yarmouth.

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Sunday Fungi: Served on Wood

Posted on December 16, 2018 by crispina kemp

Over the past few weeks, I’ve chosen the more fragile, ephemeral fungi to post on a Sunday. But that can’t be said of this week’s specimen. Its name? Nah, some kind of bracket.

Wood-look bracket

A wooden bracket? No, it’s a fungus. 17 September 2018

What I like about this sturdy fella is how the older growths have taken on the patterning of the host log. It’s almost as if they’re all made of wood.

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Pigs in Muck

Posted on December 15, 2018 by crispina kemp

Year’s end approaching, I’m left with titles not so easy to fill. So you’ll forgive me if this one isn’t so obvious.

Happiness cp

Pigs in Muck: 21st June 2018

As my dear old mum used to say: They’re happy as pigs in muck.

#2018picoftheweek challenge: Happiness

Don’t you just love these piggies. Fields of pigs are a frequent sight on my walks.

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The Green Lady Legend

Posted on December 15, 2018 by crispina kemp
Green Lady Woods

Green Lady Woods

There wasn’t a kid in the village who didn’t know about the Green Lady who haunted the tower. Just a tale to scare us kids, to keep inquisitive noses out of an old building no longer safe. Right? Yet it made us more curious. As we braved ourselves to enter the dark woods which surrounded the part-demolished old hall, I fleshed out the skeletal tale, made the lady a green witch who lay in wait for us amongst those deep-shadowed trees. Scared, my friends raced for the road, left me. Alone.

When, as an adult, I read the history of that Elizabethan hall I discovered the truth of the legend: that lady wore green as a sign she was Catholic.

120 words

Written for Weekend Writing Prompt #85 on Sammiscribbles

 

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Heartbroken Marvin CCC5

Posted on December 13, 2018 by crispina kemp
farm stuff CCC5

Crimson’s Creative Challenge #5

Drops of oil dripped from every orifice
When he saw what they’d done to his beloved Alice.

For Crimson’s Creative Challenge

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