Ah me, oh woe, but Life is foul
Ma sent me here to wash our knicks
Our vests and blouses and our *kex
But she told me not
Of the fairy hex
Upon this spot.
Soaken
Broken
Drowned
And taken
Though I clutch to any living body
Drain their warmth and wealth
Though I drink their well-being
Yet never can I return to health
*For those not knowing, kex are trousers
Please note the title of this post. I miss the name, Crimson’s Creative Challenge. So we’ll start it at #007, this being the 7th week of the new format. Hope it doesn’t cause you confusion 🤨
Every Wednesday I’ll post FOUR photos (if you want to get a head start you’ll find them marked in that week’s Sunday Picture Post and Tuesday Treats). Lots of choice!
And here there are:
You respond with something CREATIVE. Perhaps an answering photo, or micro-fiction, or a poem, or just a caption
As before, there are 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.
Here’s wishing you inspirational explosions. And FUN
An autumnal medley featuring photos taken during our walk on 17th October 2024. Enjoy
17th October 2024
Our native trees tend to be late autumnal-turners. But the chestnut tree isn’t native, thus its leaves are amongst the earliest to turn yellow and brown and drop to the ground. Below: a pioneering birch thrusts through the chestnut leaves, the attached polypore brackets forming like a ladder
17th October 2024
17th October 2024
Moss and lichen are year-round features where the ground and air is damp…
17th October 2024
17th October 2024
I know the song says ‘The holly and the ivy’ but here the berries are rowan and holly
17th October 2024
17th October 2024
Beech leaves, gold in the sudden sun…
17th October 2024
17th October 2024
The mist is gone, now all is bright and clear in the sun
17th October 2024
17th October 2024
So busy looking at trees, we forget the lower woodland storey: Bracken, gorse and (below) the seed-heads of wood-sage caught it that wonderful golden autumnal sun
17th October 2024
That’s all for now folks. Don’t forget Fungi Friday!
17th October 2024 we bus into Norwich, and out again. We’re headed to Broadland Country Park. We visited this woodland back in February, when all was bare, and mentally marked it for another visit later in the year. And so, step off the bus and we are here…
17th October 2024
There are several paths through these woods (former pine and chestnut plantations). Which do we follow? To begin, we stay close to the edge
17th October 2024
Despite the morning mist the sun does its best to shine through the trees. This early season it’s mostly the bracken that gives autumnal colour, though the trees’ leaves are yellowing
17th October 2024
17th October 2024
17th October 2024
Clay soil doesn’t quickly dry and this summer has seen plentiful rain. So here we come to a seasonal rill amidst dark green trees
17th October 2024
17th October 2024
I love to find these delightful vistas through the trees
17th October 2024
Above, birch is the first coloniser of open spaces. Below, beech trees have long since established their foothold
17th October 2024
17th October 2024
Into the pine plantation now. The mist is all but gone allowing the sunbeams to play
17th October 2024
This woodland edges a common. And on the common sheep are grazing…
17th October 2024
And so it’s back to the road to catch a bus home. Hope you enjoyed
Image credit: hotspotspecialgmailcom on pixabay
What a lark
Out in the street
After dark
Halloween was such a treat
Filled my bag
With lots of sweets
21 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Dark
A few of the fungi we saw on our walk through Broadland Country Park on 17th October 2024 (see Sunday Picture Post on 3rd Nov). Enjoy
17th October 2024
Hoof bracket (above)
17th October 2024
17th October 2024
Above and below, Amethyst Deceiver
17th October 2024
17th October 2024
Above, Stinkhorn… usually you can find it simply by sniffing!
17th October 2024
17th October 2024
17th October 2024
17th October 2024
Above, False Death Cap (Amanita citrina)
17th October 2024
17th October 2024
Above and below, Fly Agaric (Amanita muscaria)
17th October 2024
17th October 2024
That’s all for now folks. Don’t forget to check out Sunday Picture Post on Sunday 3rd November, and Tuesday Treats on Tuesday 5th November for more photos from this walk
I am the greatest
You know everyone agrees
That’s why so many sayings
Are said about me!
Every Wednesday I’ll post FOUR photos (if you want to get a head start you’ll find them marked in that week’s Sunday Picture Post and Tuesday Treats). Lots of choice!
And here there are:
You respond with something CREATIVE. Perhaps an answering photo, or micro-fiction, or a poem, or just a caption
As before, there are 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.
Here’s wishing you inspirational explosions. And FUN
A selection of photos from our walk through Gunton and Corton woods on 12th October 2024. Autumn is beginning to touch our trees. Enjoy
12th October 2024
The changing greens of an evergreen fern
12th October 2024
Oak and sycamore…
12th October 2024
12th October 2024
The vivid colours of an ornamental maple and the ghostly form of bryony as it tangles with ivy
12th October 2024
12th October 2024
Grasses too change colour now…
12th October 2024
Two old trees in Gunton woods
12th October 2024
12th October 2024
Beech and holly in Corton woods
12th October 2024
Hope you enjoyed. Don’t forget the Pick A Pic challenge on Wednesday 🥰
Image Credit: Webandi on Pixabay
Everyone expected the Spanish Inquisition
But Sammi’s Writing Prompt in 15 words?
That was unexpected
15 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Unexpected
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