This October Morn

Posted on October 5, 2024 by crispina kemp

5th October 2024

Ho hum, don’t be glum
It might be cold
Yeah, it’s cold
But that sun is bold
Gonna keep me warm
This October morn
While I shop for groceries

29 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Groceries

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Adventure Deliverers

Posted on October 3, 2024 by crispina kemp

Mikey and me
We went down to the dyke
To find us a boat
To put out to sea
But every boat there
So it would appear
Were intended only to ply the rivers
None were proper sea-fearing adventure-deliverers
And so with no sea to roam
Mikey and me
We sauntered home

Written for Pick-A-Pic Week 2

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Pick A Pic Wk#2

Posted on October 2, 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: A Mixture of Everything

Posted on October 1, 2024 by crispina kemp

The seasons are changing, the riot of summer flowers gone, the rich harvest of berries and fungi now beginning. And of course, there are dragonflies within reach of the water. Enjoy…

7th September 2024

Ivy, the great attractor of bees, though not when it’s wet. And field scabious (with bee)

7th September 2024

7th September 2024

White lilies on the village pond. And a butterfly clustered buddleia, both beautiful to see

7th September 2024

7th September 2024

Rowan/Mountain Ash brightens our hedgerows, as does the elder now in berry

7th September 2024

Alas, these bryony berries haven’t been allowed to ripen. Not sure what’s happened to them but I rather like the muted colours

7th September 2024

7th September 2024

So delicate, this inkcap, I nearly stood on it. Below, a green-veined white butterfly settled long enough to focus and click

7th September 2024

7th September 2024

A male (above) and a female (below) common darter

7th September 2024

That’s all for now. Hope you enjoyed the selection

 

 

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Beyond Enhancement

Posted on September 30, 2024 by crispina kemp

The photos I post on a Sunday and Tuesday, and for the challenge, are as nature intended. At most I’ll tweak the contrast to counter what can be our grey English climate. But the following are, as the title says, beyond enhancement. Enjoy

2nd July 2024 

21st September 2024 

13th April 2024 

17th June 2024 

17th August 2024 

21st January 2024 

27th February 2024 

25th July 2024 

24th January 2024 

17th August 2024 

The dates on the photos are those when the photo was taken

Hope you enjoyed. Let me know which one’s your favourite

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When There’s Too Much Food For the Camera

Posted on September 29, 2024 by crispina kemp

Black Bryony Berries: 28th September 2024

When walking the camera, it’s my job to determine our route plus times of buses there and back. I’ve the horrors of missing a last bus, even though that might be as early as 4:00 pm. Thus, I must calculate how long we’ll take to walk the route.

Imagine our horror when, thinking we’d ample time to reach that distant bus stop, we arrived to see the bus pulling away.

We waved. We hollered. Success! The bus waited for us.

80 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Calculate

We were delayed in taking photos of these wonderful (poisonous) berries!

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Sunday Picture Post: Down By Upton’s Boat Dyke

Posted on September 29, 2024 by crispina kemp

It’s Saturday 7th September 2024 and the weather’s not looking good. But fingers crossed it’s going to get sunny. A short bus-hop across the grazing marshes to the small town of Acle then into the Bure Valley. Please, join us…

7th September 2024

The clouds behind Fishley church don’t look promising. But wait, what’s that? Blue sky peeping through? We cross the brassica field (rape seed/canola, probably) and beyond the harvested wheat field I glance back at the mist.

7th September 2024

7th September 2024

Too early yet for anyone to be taking their yachts out. Maybe they’re waiting to see if it’s to rain?

7th September 2024

7th September 2024

I love these little cockle-boats!

7th September 2024

7th September 2024

There are benches at the staithe where previous walks we’ve sat awhile but in this unsettled weather we’d rather keep walking, taking a path that skirts the grazing marsh

7th September 2024

7th September 2024

There are cattle in this field, but all of a huddle. So I focus on the distant windmill instead

7th September 2024

7th September 2024

Returning to Acle to catch the bus, it hasn’t rained, and it’s comfortably warm though with the humidity of a sauna!

7th September 2024

Hope you enjoyed our walk. It’s not a long one, I’m having to keep the walks short because of the leg.

More next week

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Down At The Boat Dyke

Posted on September 28, 2024 by crispina kemp

7th September 2024

The day was a little too breezy to make of the water a perfect mirror, but it’s close. Therefore, I am claiming this photo for Mirrored, my eighth title of #2024picofthemonth, as set at Of Maria Antonia.

Who knows, I might manage to complete a line by New Year’s Eve 🤪

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Pick a Pic #3: Three Little Fairies

Posted on September 26, 2024 by crispina kemp

Three little fairies playing near the pond
One slipped in and then she was gone

Two little fairies playing near the pond
One slipped in then she was gone

One little fairy playing near the pond
Alighted on a lily pad and there she remained

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NEW! NEW! NEW!!! Pick a Pic

Posted on September 25, 2024 by crispina kemp

New challenge, new name, but the rules are still the same.

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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