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Friday Fungi

Posted on October 6, 2023 by crispina kemp

The various fungi seen on our walk 13th September 2023. Nothing outstanding and exciting, but early days yet. And so, I give you these…

13th September 2023

I think this one is an Oyster-something. It’s part-eaten-something, I do know!

13th September 2023

Pretty, like flowers

13th September 2023

At least these have deeper colour

13th September 2023

Birch Polypore (I think)

13th September 2023

I love how, in getting low to the fungi, I get close-ups of the newly fallen leaves, wonderful dark colours

13th September 2023

And finally…a deep crust of lichen!

13th September 2023

I hope you enjoyed. I’m sure we’ll find more colourful and unusual forms as the season trundles along

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CCC256: Tittle-Tattle

Posted on October 5, 2023 by crispina kemp

Molly was a tittle-tattle
Always whispering in Edna’s ear
Thinking that way no one else would hear
Alas, the day did come when all the herd overheard
Then Molly had to turn and run!

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #256

Posted on October 4, 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: Leaves And Berries In This Autumn’s Colours

Posted on October 3, 2023 by crispina kemp

All the colour from our walk along the lanes to Tyrrell’s Wood on 13th September 2023

13th September 2023

We start with the green, unripe berries of privet…dripping after the rain

13th September 2023

And its neighbour, unripe Dogwood

13th September 2023

Further down the lane, the hawthorn is hung in the colours of bryony!

13th September 2023

While beneath them the sun turns the bramble leaves to jewels

13th September 2023

More Dogwood, the leaves now putting on their emperor’s robes

13th September 2023

But the leaves and berries of Spindle far outdoes any other for colour!

13th September 2023

Guelder Rose advertises its poison in luscious lip-red

13th September 2023

Here’s a tricky one, hanging around with the Sloes and yet it seems to be Hazel

13th September 2023

And talking of Sloes…midnight blue

13th September 2023

What, more Dogwood? Here it’s showing us its berries…darker than Sloes, I’d call them black

13th September 2023

Rose Hips, the true colour of autumn!

13th September 2023

A fallen Oak leaf, all bronzed up after a summer in the sun…

That’s all for now folks, hope you enjoyed

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Sunday Picture Post: A Walk On The Green Side

Posted on October 1, 2023 by crispina kemp

13th September 2023. After a day of torrential rain, the heatwave that has gripped our little land has finally broken. We venture again into the (formerly hot) interior!!! Bus to Norwich. Bus to Long Stratton.

13th September 2023

Met Office said excellent visibility, yet I’m seeing haze

13th September 2023

Are we in for more rain?

13th September 2023

Oak before ash, in for a splash… yea, we should be ok

13th September 2023

Crossing the common which is Wood Green, seeing into lush green gardens…

13th September 2023

Just look at those wings…

13th September 2023

Love these old trees…

13th September 2023

We’re at Tyrrell’s Wood…which has a lot of hornbeam trees

13th September 2023

My favourite tree!

13th September 2023

It was very cool walking beneath the green leaves…

13th September 2023

And my camera kept clicking!

13th September 2023

It’s a tree but it looks like a column at the end of an avenue

13th September 2023

Away from the woods, walking back to Long Stratton to catch the bus, and it is HOT. Here’s the old mill…

13th September 2023

And beside it, glistening metals!

Hope you enjoyed. We did…

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Charming Bewitching Maligned

Posted on October 1, 2023 by crispina kemp

image: Open Clip-Art Vectors from Pixabay

The incorrigible reprobate
Beloved, berated, much underrated
Always a smile
Spreading a mile
Lasting a while
Claimed to be wicked
A claim that’s insipid
Supposedly evil
Devilishly gleeful
Yet so full of goodness
It radiates

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

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A Sacred Place In A Foreign Land

Posted on September 30, 2023 by crispina kemp

19th June 2021

Today, the Norfolk village is best known as the home of Lotus Cars. But it wasn’t always so. Beneath Lotus Cars is the airfield that was home to United States Air Force during World War II. And they are remembered and honoured still.

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