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

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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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Friday Fungi

Posted on December 8, 2023 by crispina kemp

Photos taken of fungi found on our walk to Fritton Woods, 17th November 2023, Part 2! Enjoy.

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I’ve tried to group these according to shared colour

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An odd one, mushroom-coloured…

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Little mushroom-coloured fungi!

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Two-toned, chocolate and grey…

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Looks blue but could be purple (see that little one tucked underneath)…

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Pink…

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And some fungi that don’t look like mushrooms!

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That’s all for now, folks. I do hope I’ve satisfied your visual hunger!

 

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CCC265: Switched By The Blue Witch

Posted on December 7, 2023 by crispina kemp

How was Eric to know that beyond that fence was the blue witch’s domain?

Never again would he ramp through that glade with his wife and young son.

Cast into blue beasts, that’s a strong fine for the crime of trespass.

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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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