Friday Fungi

Posted on December 1, 2023 by crispina kemp

Some of the fungi found on our walk to Fritton Woods on 17th November 2023 (next week I’ll post those found once we reached the woods). In other words, these are mostly hedgerow fungi

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The fungi season is coming to a close, perhaps another three, maybe four weeks. Then, while there will still be fungi around, there won’t be enough to devote a weekly post to them. Meanwhile, I hope you enjoy whatever I can find!

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CCC264: In The Woods

Posted on November 30, 2023 by crispina kemp

My bestie went down to the woods today
He went with his friends
He said, “To play.”
But they returned, and he did not.
Where is he?
Has something horrid happened to him?
Hide and seek, they said.
My heart’s in my mouth!
Is he dead?
No, he just fell asleep in the shed.

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #264

Posted on November 29, 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: Snapshots of Colour

Posted on November 28, 2023 by crispina kemp

A few details from our walk of 17th November 2023. Enjoy…

Gorse. Of course. There is always gorse!

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Ivy flowers and fallen leaves brighten a gloomy morning

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Rosa rugosa grabs a swathe of the forest edge, down by the marsh

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After the rain, bracken and grasses in the sun

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Gold-crowned saplings all hung with nature’s own fairy lights!

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Moss…

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Cladonia, a lichenised fungus

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Birch and bracken turning the heathland to copper!

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That’s all for now folks. Don’t forget Friday Fungi.

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Sunday Picture Post: A Walk of Two Halves

Posted on November 26, 2023 by crispina kemp

Rain, rain, go away, why must it always rain on my walk-the-camera day? 17th November starts wet, overcast, gloomy. But we don our waterproofs and hop a bus. We’re headed to Fritton Woods, aka Waveney Forest. Please do join us…

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We feared it might be deeply muddy but so far it’s looking good…

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The autumn foliage would look so much better in the sun…

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We arrive at the woods. The mistiness of the wet day adds a certain something…

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The rain has stopped. That’s encouraging…

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The forest abuts a marshland and a river (the Waveney)…

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Which makes the perimeter a bit like a swamp! Glad to climb the bank, back to the heathy-bits

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From whence we can see across to the river…

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Turning inland again, we venture into a birch wood, not yet explored despite our many visits…

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The rain has stopped. The sun is trying…

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And the sun’s rays burst through…

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Arriving here, in the sunlight, felt like emerging from a dark underworld!

We’ll continue the walk next week… in the sun, with vibrant autumn colours! Yay. Please join us then.

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Rudolph’s Little Helper

Posted on November 25, 2023 by crispina kemp

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Amanita muscaria aka Fly Agaric brings colour to our woodlands and heaths to provide winter nibbles for all species of deer. Want to know more? See The Chap in the Red Cap

Merry and Bright, one of the titles from Maria Antonia’s #2023picofthe week 

And that gives me another line:

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Oh Wouldn’t It Be Lovely

Posted on November 25, 2023 by crispina kemp

credit: Apples PC on pixabay

My heart’s desire
A deep comfy chair and a roaring fire
Deep in the forest where the rare birds nest
There I’d stay, let the weather do its worst till the spring buds burst
Alone in my cottage, my hopes blessed and nursed
Alone, unmoving, fortunes reversed

47 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Cottage

 

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Friday Fungi

Posted on November 24, 2023 by crispina kemp

Mega-yield of fungi photos on 7th November 2023. How to select just a few for you. Not easy; I’ve exceeded my usual dozen. Hope you enjoy, my fellow fungi-fiends…

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Let’s start with the “ordinary”…

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Have I said before how I love the pink ones?

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Getting bigger…

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And textured…

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And delicate…

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And not so common…

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Shaggies… of various sorts…

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Looks like an amanita to me, but which one?

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Just look at that pattern. Beautiful…

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Possibly another amanita, but possibly not…

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Distinctive… but a distinctive what?

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Maybe you can name the ones that I cannot. I’ve long-since given up.

Hope you’ve enjoyed. More next week

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CCC263: Memories

Posted on November 23, 2023 by crispina kemp

It was springtime when we first sat here
Summer when our love we first declared
Now autumn, and alas my love has disappeared
Memories I still hold dear.

 

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #263

Posted on November 22, 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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