Category Archives: Photos

Tuesday Treats: Verge and Fenny Flowers

Posted on August 19, 2025 by crispina kemp

A selection of flowers featured on our walk from the archives (13th June 2022). Enjoy Scrolling this collection I noticed a distinct ‘white’ theme to these roadside flowers 🔼 white campion 🔽 stitchwort Almost keeping to the white theme is … Continue reading →

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Sunday Picture Post: A Walk to Wheatfen

Posted on August 17, 2025 by crispina kemp

This week the soaring temperatures have kept me housebound. So it’s just as well I’ve archives to call on. Here’s a walk from 13th June 2022. I know I’ve shared various photos from this walk before but – well, let’s … Continue reading →

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Friday Fliers

Posted on August 15, 2025 by crispina kemp

A selection of the butterflies we encountered on our walk 6th August 2025. Enjoy 🔼 Speckled wood  🔽 🔼 Green veined white 🔽 Holly blue 🔼 Gatekeeper 🔽 🔼 Common blue 🔽 ⏬ 🔼 Silver washed Fritillary 🔽 🔽 Red … Continue reading →

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CCC047: Howard’s Flat Tyre

Posted on August 14, 2025 by crispina kemp

I was scarcely out of the gate when Howard skidded his bike up beside me. Heart aflutter. A thousand insects river-dancing in my cavities. “You going mistletoeing?” I held up the twine I’d use to pull the clusters closer so … Continue reading →

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #047

Posted on August 13, 2025 by crispina kemp

Every Wednesday I’ll post FOUR photos (if you want to get a head start you’ll find them marked in that week’s Sunday Picture Post and Tuesday Treats). Lots of choice! And here they are: You respond with something CREATIVE. Perhaps … Continue reading →

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Tuesday Treats: Ready For Fall

Posted on August 12, 2025 by crispina kemp

A medley of photos from our walk on 6th August 2025. Enjoy High summer, the best of the wild flowers now are putting out seeds, out hedgerows now are rich in nuts and fruits (not all are ripe) 🔼Chestnut and … Continue reading →

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Sunday Picture Post: A Quiet Corner

Posted on August 10, 2025 by crispina kemp

6th August 2025 dawns bright and clear. Forecast says it’s going to get out hot but not till late in the day. So plenty of water, fruits for nibbles, let’s go. It’s a double bus ride to get to the … Continue reading →

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Friday Fliers

Posted on August 8, 2025 by crispina kemp

Some of the butterflies, damsels and dragons seen on our walk on 25th July 2025. Enjoy 🔼Small white and Green-veined whites 🔽 ⏬ 🔼 Gatekeepers 🔽 🔼 Wall, showing underwing pattern 🔽 male wall ⏬female wall 🔼 Common blue male … Continue reading →

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CCC046: The Bishop and the Carrot

Posted on August 7, 2025 by crispina kemp

What had he done to bring this curse on One moment a red-coped bishop Leading a procession through a field ready to crop The next, brought low with a beetling brow A carrot in the soil beneath him rooting deep … Continue reading →

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #046

Posted on August 6, 2025 by crispina kemp

Every Wednesday I’ll post FOUR photos (if you want to get a head start you’ll find them marked in that week’s Sunday Picture Post and Tuesday Treats). Lots of choice! And here they are: You respond with something CREATIVE. Perhaps … Continue reading →

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