Sunday Picture Post: Return to Norfolk (Lound Part 2)

Posted on October 13, 2024 by crispina kemp

21st September 2024, we’ve bused to Hopton, south of the county border, to walk back via Lound Lakes nature reserve. Last week we left the walk at the main lake. Now we resume. Please join us

21st September 2024

The morning mist stretches over the water

21st September 2024

In winter the lake is busy with ducks and geese, but not yet, just a swan all alone

21st September 2024

21st September 2024

21st September 2024

This lake is available for fishing. It forms part of the local water company’s reservoir. The steep sides are wooded in pine

21st September 2024

After a short climb we’re back in arable country, and Norfolk

21st September 2024

21st September 2024

21st September 2024

Nearing the end of the walk, and again the mist lingers on

21st September 2024

It’s not a deep woodland, the sun shines through it!

21st September 2024

And out of the woods to catch the bus because I’m still a few miles from home.

Hope you enjoyed

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Lost Amongst The Mosses

Posted on October 10, 2024 by crispina kemp

Lost amongst the lichens and the mosses
She opens her petals, the day to grace
We don’t know her name
But all the same
That little white flower’s more precious than finest lace

For Pic #3, Wk 3

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Pick A Pic Week #3

Posted on October 9, 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 Mishmash Miscellany

Posted on October 8, 2024 by crispina kemp

A miscellany of photos from our walk 21st September 2024 in the order they came off my camera. Can you match them to the photos in Sunday Picture Post? Regardless, enjoy…

21st September 2024

Yellow toadflax, a reliable late flowerer

21st September 2024

Flowers amidst the mosses and lichens

21st September 2024

21st September 2024

I do love to see these crimson blackberry leaves at this time of year. And those tiny fungi we nearly stand upon

21st September 2024

21st September 2024

Two colonisers of hedgerows and fences: Bittersweet and Honeysuckle

21st September 2024

21st September 2024

I know I’ve said it many many times, but I do love the alder tree with its succession of flowers, cones and fruits

21st September 2024

Not many fungi arising yet, but the birch polypore is a ‘staple’

21st September 2024

Where there is water…

21st September 2024

In a dew-drenched meadow, self-heal seed heads and delicate grasses…and a spider’s web draped over the brambles

21st September 2024

Hope you enjoyed. Second part next week!

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Sunday Picture Post: A Short Hop South of the Border

Posted on October 6, 2024 by crispina kemp

21st September 2024 looked like it would be a good walking day so, hop on bus – and hop off again over the county border at Hopton. We’re to walk back to Great Yarmouth via the nature reserve at Lound Lakes. Please join us…

21st September 2024

Lound Lakes were formed the same way as the Broads, as peat diggings that then flooded. The difference? These are in a river valley. So we see the sun cresting the rim

21st September 2024

21st September 2024

Wherever the soil is damp, there you’ll find the alder tree!

21st September 2024

21st September 2024

There is a constructed ‘dry’ path through this wet woodland at the tail-end of the watercourse otherwise this swamp would be impassable

21st September 2024

21st September 2024

I love looking back…

21st September 2024

21st September 2024

The early morning mist clings to the trees, reluctant to relinquish its clasp

21st September 2024

21st September 2024

A sun-scorched meadow… once the sun rises above the trees. First half of walk – the walkway that crosses the main lake.

21st September 2024

We’ll leave our walk here and return to complete it next week.

Hope you enjoyed.

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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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