Tuesday Treat: Autumnal Medley

Posted on November 5, 2024 by crispina kemp

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!

Posted in Photos | Tagged , | 8 Comments

Sunday Picture Post: Pine, Birch and Chestnut

Posted on November 3, 2024 by crispina kemp

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

Posted in Photos | Tagged , , , | 15 Comments

What A Treat

Posted on November 2, 2024 by crispina kemp

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

Posted in Poems (Some Silly) | Tagged , | 25 Comments

Friday Fungi

Posted on November 1, 2024 by crispina kemp

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

Posted in Photos | Tagged , | 16 Comments

Pic#4: Something to Crow About

Posted on October 31, 2024 by crispina kemp

I am the greatest
You know everyone agrees
That’s why so many sayings
Are said about me!

Posted in Photos, Pick a Pic, Poems (Some Silly) | Tagged , , | 17 Comments

Pick A Pic #6

Posted on October 30, 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

Posted in Photos, Pick a Pic | Tagged , | 5 Comments

Tuesday Treats: Trees and Leaves

Posted on October 29, 2024 by crispina kemp

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 🥰

Posted in Photos | Tagged , | 12 Comments

Not the Spanish Inquisition

Posted on October 28, 2024 by crispina kemp

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

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged | 16 Comments

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

12th October 2024

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

12th October 2024

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

12th October 2024

12th October 2024

A place to sit and share the sandwiches…

12th October 2024

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

12th October 2024

12th October 2024

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

12th October 2024

There are even dragons lurking in the undergrowth

12th October 2024

12th October 2024

A woodland glade, rich in the colour of beech trees

Hope you enjoyed…

Posted in Photos | Tagged , , , , | 17 Comments

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!

Posted in Photos | Tagged , | 2 Comments