Friday Fungi

Posted on November 17, 2023 by crispina kemp

So difficult to select so few photos of fungi from so many. I give you fifteen from our walk of 30th October 2023. Enjoy…

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Pretty pink… no idea what it is!

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A four-leaf fungus?

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Not often we find purple fungi

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Puff balls and earth balls are in abundance this season

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Welcome to fairy land…

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Mother and child?

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Angels…?

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If the wee white ones are angels, then this might be the devil?

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Pink, I love the pink ones… and the purple

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Jelly ears glowing in the sun

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Alas, that’s all for now… more next week

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CCC262: Anne and Martin of Sorrel Farm

Posted on November 16, 2023 by crispina kemp

Anne turned her car into the lane, to see Sorrell Farm growing larger, advancing towards her. She sighed and smiled. Her every teen summer spent here, with her grandma. Sad the day her grandma died. But the farm stayed in the family, her cousin John inherited. Alas, it seemed that farm was cursed, for John’s wife died, and shortly after John met with a tragic accident.

Had John not already installed Martin as farm manager Anne might have sold the place. But today Martin would be waiting for her, her newlywed husband. And no one could pin John’s tragic death on them.

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #262

Posted on November 15, 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 Treat: Flowers, Seeds and Foliage

Posted on November 14, 2023 by crispina kemp

Here’s a dozen treats to brighten your Tuesday…

30th October 2023

The last poppy?

30th October 2023

Hops hanging around in the hedgerow

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Well, it was the day before Halloween

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A strange mix of horsetails and marjoram

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Delighted to see the oak finally turning golden

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Three leaves: Horsetail, reed, and ivy

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Bryony, bright berries and golden hearts

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Beech leaves, even while green they look good in the autumn sun. Better still when they turn autumnally copper

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Ferns and mosses… suggests a damp place (yea!)

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Spindle berries and whispy horsetails

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Finally a shot I couldn’t resist. See how high that reed has grown

That’s all for now, folks. Check out Friday Fungi!

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Sunday Picture Post: Smockmill Common

Posted on November 12, 2023 by crispina kemp

30th October 2023 we’re heading out to Smockmill Common on outskirts of Saxlingham Nethergate, an excellent location for a fungi-hunt. But the Common is no long walk from the bus stop, so we go the longer way round. Please join us. You’ll need waterproof footwear…

30th October 2023

So it’s along West End and through Foxhole where my father’s Grandma Kemp used to live…

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An ancient hollow way takes us towards the common…

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Graceful beech along the way, before we join a little lane running out from the village…

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Glorious weather…

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Nearly there, just need to cross the Broad Slough, which is a very damp corridor running through the village which in really wet conditions flows with streams…as here

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The Common has two different environments. There’s a hill, upon which a smock mill once stood, and which has been quarried small-scale for aggregates, and there’s a very wet part!

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My father played here as a boy, when there weren’t so many trees…

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River Tas in full burst-the-banks flow

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This is my favourite tree in this place…

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I suspect this tree existed in the days when my father played football here (1920s)

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Walking back to catch the bus…

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I do hope you enjoyed this walk. As you might have noticed, this place is close to my heart…

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Tis The Season

Posted on November 11, 2023 by crispina kemp

30th October 2023

Tis fungi season, and these brackets had colonised the tree. All were way above my head but I did manage one shot by holding my camera up at arm’s length and pointing down, and hoping (see below)

Growing, one of the titles from Maria Antonia’s #2023picofthe week 

Blushing Bracket: 30th October 2023

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A Big Guy With An Axe

Posted on November 11, 2023 by crispina kemp

Image by Gioele Fazzeri on pixabay

Describe…

Well, he was kinda tall and kinda wide. A big guy.

Ascribe…

I’d say he was possibly a Viking. Could be I think that cos of his axe.

Subscribe…

No, I don’t subscribe to the theory all Vikings were bad guys. Well, maybe I do cos if they were just benevolent traders and farmers they wouldn’t be called Vikings. Would they.

Transcribe…

You want me to write it all down on that goat skin? My word’s not enough.

Prescribe…

I don’t care what the recommendations of your organization. Oh, demands are they?

Okay, go fetch the scribe.

98 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Scribe

 

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Friday Fungi

Posted on November 10, 2023 by crispina kemp

Photos of fungi seen on the very rainy day of 24th October 2023. Enjoy…

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And finally, that special one…

24th October 2023

Hope you enjoyed. More next week!

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CCC261: Alf the Traumatised Tree

Posted on November 9, 2023 by crispina kemp

As a youngster, no more than maybe twenty years old, Alf heard the local children discussing the meaning of his name. Alf. He didn’t stop to consider how they knew his name, but immediately reacted.

Alien. Life. Form.

But he was a native tree, his family had inhabited this land since the ice disappeared.

Alien. Life. Form.

Like he shouldn’t be here! This traumatised him. He wanted to wail.

Alien. Life. Form.

Yet his roots went deep, deep into the soil to keep the soil there.

Alien. Life. Form.

INDIGENOUS!

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #261

Posted on November 8, 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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