Tuesday Treats: Flowers and Fungi

Posted on February 20, 2024 by crispina kemp

Details photos from our walk on 6th February 2024. Enjoy

Larch cones. Larch is a deciduous conifer…

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And here the lichen is really nuzzling…

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Another odd ‘conifer’, the yew has flowers and berries instead of cones (forgive the blurriness, it was very high winds!)

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And while thinking of seeds, heather seed pods…

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Ah, greenery! Honeysuckle, frequently the first leaves to appear…

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And this I think is possibly foxglove, though it could be comfrey

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These need no naming…

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And catkins, of course…

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And did I say fungi? Oh yes…

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Yes, it is a fungus, just a very very small one

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And lastly, Trametes versicolor, aka Turkeytails…

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Hope you enjoyed. It does seem that spring is on the way…

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Glenda the Goose

Posted on February 18, 2024 by crispina kemp

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Ever since an ungainly gosling, Glenda hasn’t wanted to join with the gang – those gaggling girls with their goggling at the glorified guys, all greedily grappling for the grass and grain. Most ungregarious, is Glenda.

35 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Gregarious

 

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Sunday Picture Post: Two New Woods

Posted on February 18, 2024 by crispina kemp

6th February 2024, forecast high winds, wind chill, but no rain. We’re exploring where we’ve never been before. Takes two buses to arrive. Come with us…

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Pine isn’t native here, so we tend to find it in regimented rows, plantation style

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But amongst the pine and where it’s been felled…

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We earmark the location. Could be happy fungi hunting, in its season…

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Moving along to the next woodland, which is just down the lane…

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A place of mammoth trees… and then we encounter a sweet chestnut plantation…

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This isn’t the right season to visit here either…

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Again, we make a note to return in fungi season

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We’re heading out of the woods, eventually to catch the bus home…

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Felthorpe church where snowdrops abound…

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The lane leads us to Marriott’s Way… wind-blasted!

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And just to let us know this used to be a train-track…

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That’s all for now, folks. Hope you enjoyed, though this really isn’t the season for woodlands. See Tuesday Treats for some colourful details!

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CCC275: Another of Jack’s Crazy Plans

Posted on February 15, 2024 by crispina kemp

We could hear the tide rolling in behind us, chasing us across the foreshore. But we’d soon be safe. We could see from the dryness of sand that the tide didn’t lap the cliffs. We just had to get that little bit closer.

Oh, but it was slow going, feet sinking into the sand, stones slipping beneath us. And the weight of that chest! I swear there was no treasure in it, just stones, sands and water. But Jack wouldn’t listen. Jack always knew best. Huh, strange how Jack’s plans never succeeded.

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #275

Posted on February 14, 2024 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: Dunes and Beach

Posted on February 13, 2024 by crispina kemp

Something the things seen on our walk along Kessingland shore 24th January 2024. Enjoy.

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Aye, even on the dunes we can’t escape fungi!

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And lichen…

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And lichenised fungi (Cladonia)

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Thickets of sea buckthorn here, the berries now sun-dried and sea-air salted!

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Reeds, sedges and other “fancy” grasses…

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Not to mention those other things generally found on a beach…

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Immature gulls braving the waves…

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I think this one is a young herring gull…

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And an adult joins in!

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That’s all for now folks. There would have been more but the wind-driven tide wouldn’t allow us to pass

Hope you enjoyed. Now, where are we off to next week?

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Sunday Picture Post: An Abbreviated Walk

Posted on February 11, 2024 by crispina kemp

24th January 2024, midway through a two-day gale, but anyway we’re walking. The intention is the five mile walk from Kessingland dunes to Lowestoft. But we didn’t quite make it. Stay with me, you’ll find out why…

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Kessingland cliffs are faced by extensive dunes, but sea mist always makes the ships seem closer…

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So here we set off, the galing wind backing us, driving us on (thankfully!)

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I love all the different shades of grass. And across the bay, our destination…

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Crazy Mary’s Hole is flooded almost to its fullest…

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Beyond it is a shingle bank, behind it are the cliffs…

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Heading into Pakefield now…

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The sea and the cliffs run closer together here…

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But wait, it’s supposed to be low tide yet the winds are holding the tide high and there’s no way we’re going to make it to Pakefield. We’ll have to turn back, take one of the exits from the beach, and catch a bus. Drats!

Hope you enjoyed.

We got a bit sand-blasted on the way back, now heading into the 40mph wind!

 

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Since We’re Apart

Posted on February 10, 2024 by crispina kemp

credit: Vinay R at Pixabay

Boredom
The bane of my existence
Where’s the challenge, the excitement
Every day, this sameness
Bereft
Since you left
I long to expire
Be buried in a cold earthen grave
For with my ungodliness it’ll never be beneath the church nave
I long for a stake
Driven deep into my heart
Since we’re apart
To rapidly end this vapid existence.

60 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Vapid

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CCC274: The Changing Fortune of Trees

Posted on February 8, 2024 by crispina kemp

We’ve plastic now for all our needs
So now we can save the trees.

Plastic is polluting our environment
Reject, use paper instead.

Burning fossil fuels is tipping our climate
But it’s fine to burn wood and trees are renewable.

This is a wood shed, a store for firewood. There are several throughout this little woodland.

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #274

Posted on February 7, 2024 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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