Sunday Picture Post: Two Small Woodlands

Posted on October 27, 2024 by crispina kemp

12th October 2024 looked to be a sunny, rainless day. So again we took our cameras south of the county border to two small woodlands, both of which had been ensured preservation by their status as nature reserves. Join us…

12th October 2024

As you can see, here is a little bit wet with water channels conveniently bridged

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This first woodland is more ‘managed’ than is the second

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It is home to several old thick trunked trees (more of those in Tuesday Treats)

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A place to sit and share the sandwiches…

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A much-needed bridge over the muddy drainage rill

12th October 2024

We cross a meadow, pass under an old railway bridge and soon we’re in the second woods

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12th October 2024

This tree-girt pond defines this second woodland which is altogether more ‘wild’

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There are even dragons lurking in the undergrowth

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12th October 2024

A woodland glade, rich in the colour of beech trees

Hope you enjoyed…

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On Great Yarmouth Dunes

Posted on October 26, 2024 by crispina kemp

4th October 2024 

On 4th October 2024, such a bright sunny day, we took our cameras for a walk through the dunes that separate our town from the beach. These dunes are designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest. The distinct dune flora enchants me. I’m saving those photos to post at a time when I don’t have a longer walk to show.

Regardless, I’m claiming this photo for Read Me, my tenth title of #2024picofthemonth, as set at Of Maria Antonia, and finally I complete a line!

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Friday Fungi

Posted on October 25, 2024 by crispina kemp

Yes folks, it’s fungi season, and I have too many pics to include in Tuesday Treats. And so… enjoy

12th October 2024 

No labels for I wouldn’t risk a wrong identification

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These are all from our walk on 12th October 2024 to Gunton and Corton Woods (see this Sunday’s Picture Post, 27th October, for more photos from that walk)

Hope you enjoyed!

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One and One and One and One

Posted on October 24, 2024 by crispina kemp

A single sheep
Doesn’t help me sleep
One and one and one and one
The counting soon is done
And don’t you look at me that way
I’m not trying to sleep in the middle of the day
But later, when the sun and I have gone away
Then one and one and one and one
Again the counting has begun

Written for Pick A Pic Week 5

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Pick A Pick Week #5

Posted on October 23, 2024 by crispina kemp

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

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Tuesday Treats: Butterflies and Berries

Posted on October 22, 2024 by crispina kemp

Photos from our walk on 28th September 2024…

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Red Admiral, Comma and Large White

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28th September 2024

The last of the butterflies? Yet they’re still flitting around my garden

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Direction finders… one for road and one for wind

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28th September 2024

Autumn fruits…

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Rose hips, and the prolific displays of bryony berries

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The berries of the yew

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Although sheep are more a springtime feature, I couldn’t resist this…

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Hope you enjoyed. It seems summer is lingering here in UK, much to our joy

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Sunday Picture Post: Between the Villages

Posted on October 20, 2024 by crispina kemp

28th September 2024, a warm and sunny day, we’re walking between the villages, but not through them. Which means rural lands and footpaths edging on mostly arable lands. Please join us.

28th September 2024

Not all fields are ‘farmed’. I’ve a feeling this one is earmarked for residential development

28th September 2024

This lane cuts through a woodland at the back of a manor house, edged here by what are probably former workers’ cottages

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The village church at Framingham Earl. And as with many of the Norfolk churches, the village has migrated towards the arterial road leaving the church stranded at the far edge

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Almost silent, almost deserted rural lane

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28th September 2024

Perhaps a little incongruous, certainly unexpected, to find US military vehicle amongst the farm’s tractors

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28th September 2024

I love it when a public footpath takes us through what would otherwise be a private residence. And these trees… fantastic. We’re leaving Framingham Earl, heading to Alpington and Yelverton

28th September 2024

28th September 2024

We Brits don’t celebrate Halloween with quite the same fervour as our American cousins. So it was a delight to find this in Alpington. Loved the humour

28th September 2024

I do hope you’ve enjoyed this little ‘stroll’; we’ve walked from Poringland, along the outskirts of Framingham Earl, to Alpington and Yelverton, now we’re headed to Hellington to catch the bus home.

 

 

 

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In Praise of Pleasure

Posted on October 19, 2024 by crispina kemp

Crispina Kemp 10th October 2022

Life is a lesson we want not to learn
Without merits, demerits or rewards to earn
A lesson with a curriculum that covers pain
Emotional
Physical
Mental
Again and again
We long for the school bell to ding-a-ling
A release from the suffering then to bring
That bell rings in our playtime
Hopscotch with repetitive long-learned rhyme
We welcome the leisure
Caked and sated in pleasure
And believe it all a wondrous respite
From our continuous earthly plight
But when we open our eyes
What a surprise
For us pleasure has more to teach

94 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Teach

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After the Ugly Bug’s Ball

Posted on October 17, 2024 by crispina kemp

What a ball!
What a night!
What utter exhaustion!
Had to pause
Had to wait
For my wings to dry out
Then we’ll party again…

Written for Pick A Pic Week 4, pic #3

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Pick A Pic Week #4

Posted on October 16, 2024 by crispina kemp

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

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