Sunday Picture Post: Heading To Those Them Hills

Posted on December 17, 2023 by crispina kemp

28th November 2023 we hop a bus to Norwich, and another bus out. We’re headed to Ringland Hills. Not sure if we’ll find fungi, but we ought to find colour. And we do…

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Rain preceded us, but it’s clearing now, creating veils over Wensum Vale. And the sun is struggling to appear…

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And where rain and sun meets…

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Finally our oaks are showing their autumnal colours…

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In fact, every tree is dressed in autumn colour…

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No muddy tracks for us today. Yay!

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Beehive Lodge, my favourite place along this lane…

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Not everyone has swans outside the garden gate! And there’s not just one…

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And the mallards call us: They also swam!

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A glimpse through the autumnal foliage of the hills where we’re heading…

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Here the woodland dips down to the road, inviting us in…

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The sentinel. Birch is the first coloniser of future woodlands. Oak soon follows. But though we’ve the invite, we’re stopping here for something to bite. Second half next week!

Hope you enjoyed.

 

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Right Before Your Very Eyes

Posted on December 16, 2023 by crispina kemp

28th November 2023 

Last walk of November, we hopped off the bus and… right before our eyes, this wondrous sight!

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

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No Beginning, Never Ending

Posted on December 16, 2023 by crispina kemp

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There it is
Beyond the sea
Bigger
World encircling
Around the land masses
Ever bending
No beginning
The Ocean
Never Ending

21 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Ocean

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Friday Fungi

Posted on December 15, 2023 by crispina kemp

Here we go again. Photos taken on our walk of 21st November 2023. Enjoy, for the season’s all but done

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Jelly ears… oh what a lot!

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And the “little ones…”

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Getting bigger…

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And bigger…

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Getting strange…

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It’s a stinkhorn, but not the one we usually see. I was delighted with this find!

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And these tiny stag horns always delight me…

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And just as we left the woodland… this!

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Hope you enjoyed.

This is the last Friday Fungi this year. The fungi pics will now return to their former slot as part of Tuesday Treats. See you all then

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CCC266: If You Go Down To The Woods

Posted on December 14, 2023 by crispina kemp

If you go down to the woods today…
We all know the words of that song
But the tale in that song is wrong
If picnic they’re having
That would be heaven
But no, they are prowling
Prowling and growling
And hoping to lunch upon YOU.

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge # 266

Posted on December 13, 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: Colour On A Rainy Day

Posted on December 12, 2023 by crispina kemp

A few of the colours that caught my eye on our wet walk on 21st November 2023. Enjoy

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Lichen and leaf…

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Leaf and water…

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Old gold…

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The wondrous colours of bark…

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Holly needs no words…

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Encrusted lichen, autumnal leaves

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Rose leaves, gold shining out from the dark

That’s all for now, folks. Hope you enjoyed.

Don’t forget Friday Fungi!

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Sunday Picture Post: A Day Divided

Posted on December 10, 2023 by crispina kemp

21st November 2023. More rain, though with a promise of getting out brighter. We hop a bus. We’re visiting two different woodlands. Neither are extensive, both are managed by local communities. But one serves more as a walk-through from here to there, the other as a destination. So don the waterproofs and let’s go…

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Taking photos despite the drizzle that’s muting the autumnal colours

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Everywhere’s flooding; as well this woodland is bordered by a drainage channel

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We leave that woodland and cross this field…only to discover the water is laying deep across it, hidden by the grass

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Heading to the next woodland. For now it’s stopped raining. My walking shoes have proven themselves fully waterproof!

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A disused railway separate the parishes

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Brighter climes ahead!

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My favourite woodland pool

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This woodland is more open… more light to see those colours

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But more holly then darkens the view

21st November 2023

And here comes the rain again. This time heavy. Time to put the equipment away and go find a bus.

Hope you enjoyed our walk though so overcast and misty. Maybe next week’s photos will be brighter and sharper!

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Iced December

Posted on December 9, 2023 by crispina kemp

14th December 2022

Although we have had a scattering of snow, and temps low enough to produce a crunch, winter doesn’t usually arrive on our coast quite this early. This photo was taken 30 mile inland, last December.

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

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Dancing Days

Posted on December 9, 2023 by crispina kemp

credit: Cocoparisienne on Pixabay

That song I hear
Everywhere
Haunts me, trips me, makes me cry
I don’t know why.
The words?
Reminding me of better days
Of careless life
Of picnics and games amidst the May
Nostalgia they say
Is the curse of our day
Clutching us
Disallowing our play
But it could be the rhythm
Those drums, those chords
Coursing through veins
Reviving pains
When we dance with them.

67 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Word Prompt: Rhythm

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