Crimson’s Creative Challenge #265

Posted on December 6, 2023 by crispina kemp

Every Wednesday I post a photo (this week it’s that one above.)
You respond with something CREATIVE

Here are some suggestions:

  • An answering photo
  • A cartoon
  • A joke
  • A caption
  • An anecdote
  • A short story (flash fiction)
  • A poem
  • A newly minted proverb, adage or saying
  • An essay
  • A song—the lyrics or the performance

You have plenty of scope and 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: Amanita muscaria

Posted on December 5, 2023 by crispina kemp

Amanita muscaria, aka Fly Agaric is so iconic, and always sparks excitement when we find one. On 17th November 2023 we found more than one.

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The first we found… not unusual to find them kicked over, stamped on, destroyed. Because some people think they’re terribly poisonous. Ok, so they’ll upset your intestines. They’ll upset your head too: They contain a chemical that’s a hallucinogen. But they will not kill you.

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I’d swear there’s a pixy standing near!

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The birth…

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Isn’t always clean…

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The rain might wash off those spots which are remnants of the cowl they’re born with

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They often hide, not easily found…

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And most often they are singular. But sometimes you’ll find them in a group!

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Slugs and snails enjoy them, as do many birds, and probably rodents too

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Gosh, what a lot we got! No, we didn’t pick them. We never do. We hunt them to photograph and show them to you.

More fungi on Friday!

 

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Sunday Picture Post: Fritton Woods Part 2

Posted on December 3, 2023 by crispina kemp

17th November 2023, we hopped a bus, our destination Waveney Forest aka Fritton Woods. This is Part 2 of our walk… when the sun came out! Enjoy

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Yay! Happy for the sun today…

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Everything shines, copper and gold is everywhere

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Pylon passion, they march from marshland and through the forest two-by-two…

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But of course, the sun just has to play hide-and-seek!

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And the sun shines again…

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The grand old dame, autumnal beech…

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Rich red, but not from native oaks. These are North American oaks. Yet they pick up the colour of our native bracken rather well…

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There has been much felling of pines over recent years. But as you see, there’s also regeneration

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Back into the trees, and heading for the exit

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But first we have to negotiate this…

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The long lane back to habitation to catch the bus

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I hope you’ve enjoyed. I’ve already posted the details from this walk, but I have so so so many fungi photos. So this week’s Tuesday Treats will feature one specific fungus species… cos for some peoples it’s associated with Christmas. Don’t miss it…

 

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Plantation Lines

Posted on December 2, 2023 by crispina kemp

17th November 2023

Waveney Forest, aka Fritton Woods, is a Forestry Commission plantation. The original lines of pines are lost now with the burgeoning growth of native species such as birch and oak. Yet the lines continue in the “rides”.

Choose Your Own [Lines], one of the titles from Maria Antonia’s #2023picofthe week 

This gives me another line on our Bingo Card! Yay!

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The Winter Swan

Posted on December 2, 2023 by crispina kemp

28th November 2023

A swan on a floor of icy marble
Naturally inclined to waddle
Though weight slung low
Yet easily over it might go
To its rump to take a blow
So now it has to hobble
Not strut like a catwalk model
Maybe like an infant toddle
Ever cautious not to topple
So we see the winter swan
Wibble-wobble

58 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Wobble

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Friday Fungi

Posted on December 1, 2023 by crispina kemp

Some of the fungi found on our walk to Fritton Woods on 17th November 2023 (next week I’ll post those found once we reached the woods). In other words, these are mostly hedgerow fungi

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The fungi season is coming to a close, perhaps another three, maybe four weeks. Then, while there will still be fungi around, there won’t be enough to devote a weekly post to them. Meanwhile, I hope you enjoy whatever I can find!

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CCC264: In The Woods

Posted on November 30, 2023 by crispina kemp

My bestie went down to the woods today
He went with his friends
He said, “To play.”
But they returned, and he did not.
Where is he?
Has something horrid happened to him?
Hide and seek, they said.
My heart’s in my mouth!
Is he dead?
No, he just fell asleep in the shed.

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #264

Posted on November 29, 2023 by crispina kemp

Every Wednesday I post a photo (this week it’s that one above.)
You respond with something CREATIVE

Here are some suggestions:

  • An answering photo
  • A cartoon
  • A joke
  • A caption
  • An anecdote
  • A short story (flash fiction)
  • A poem
  • A newly minted proverb, adage or saying
  • An essay
  • A song—the lyrics or the performance

You have plenty of scope and 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: Snapshots of Colour

Posted on November 28, 2023 by crispina kemp

A few details from our walk of 17th November 2023. Enjoy…

Gorse. Of course. There is always gorse!

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Ivy flowers and fallen leaves brighten a gloomy morning

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Rosa rugosa grabs a swathe of the forest edge, down by the marsh

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After the rain, bracken and grasses in the sun

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Gold-crowned saplings all hung with nature’s own fairy lights!

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Moss…

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Cladonia, a lichenised fungus

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Birch and bracken turning the heathland to copper!

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That’s all for now folks. Don’t forget Friday Fungi.

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Sunday Picture Post: A Walk of Two Halves

Posted on November 26, 2023 by crispina kemp

Rain, rain, go away, why must it always rain on my walk-the-camera day? 17th November starts wet, overcast, gloomy. But we don our waterproofs and hop a bus. We’re headed to Fritton Woods, aka Waveney Forest. Please do join us…

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We feared it might be deeply muddy but so far it’s looking good…

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The autumn foliage would look so much better in the sun…

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We arrive at the woods. The mistiness of the wet day adds a certain something…

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The rain has stopped. That’s encouraging…

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The forest abuts a marshland and a river (the Waveney)…

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Which makes the perimeter a bit like a swamp! Glad to climb the bank, back to the heathy-bits

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From whence we can see across to the river…

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Turning inland again, we venture into a birch wood, not yet explored despite our many visits…

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The rain has stopped. The sun is trying…

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And the sun’s rays burst through…

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Arriving here, in the sunlight, felt like emerging from a dark underworld!

We’ll continue the walk next week… in the sun, with vibrant autumn colours! Yay. Please join us then.

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