Category Archives: Photos

Sunday Picture Post: Onwards to Costessey Ponds

Posted on September 22, 2024 by crispina kemp

30th August 2024 and we’d reached the newly opened Sweet Briar Reserve. Now to continue to the place that I love best (or one of them!) An underpass takes us under the busy Sweet Briar Road The grassland give way … Continue reading →

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge: Watch This Space

Posted on September 18, 2024 by crispina kemp

Last week, with much regret I announced the demise of CCC. The numbers had dwindled it didn’t seem worth continuing. Your response set me to thinking. Is there a way to present the challenge that might encourage more participation. Well, … Continue reading →

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Tuesday Treats: Late Summer Flora

Posted on September 17, 2024 by crispina kemp

A few floral photos, berries and ‘things’ from our walk on 30th August 2024. Enjoy Old Man’s Beard, always love it (Clematis vitabla) and Bittersweet, two common hedgerow plants still in flower Elderberries, slowly stripped by the birds, and rose … Continue reading →

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Sunday Picture Post: Marriott’s Way Out of Norwich

Posted on September 15, 2024 by crispina kemp

A new nature reserve was opened early this year alongside Marriott’s Way, on the outskirts of Norwich. And so on this late summer day (30th August 2024) we get kitted out and bus into Norwich and walk out to check … Continue reading →

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge: It’s Demise

Posted on September 11, 2024 by crispina kemp

Yea, you read that right, I’m pulling Crimson’s Creative Challenge. There will be no more. Sadness abounds. I began this weekly challenge in November 2018 and to begin with the number of participants grew, then held steady. But over recent … Continue reading →

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Tuesday Treats: Up Close and Personal

Posted on September 10, 2024 by crispina kemp

A few of the photographable subjects we encountered on our visit to Acle on Sunday 25th August 2024. Enjoy… Berries, some ripe, some not: blackberries and ‘haws’ (berries of the hawthorn) Rowan, aka mountain ash… And rose hips… all looking … Continue reading →

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Sunday Picture Post: Gateway to the Broads

Posted on September 8, 2024 by crispina kemp

Sunday 25th August 2024 is a UK Bank Holiday and traditionally the last of summer. We hop a bus as far as Acle, “the Gateway to the Broads,” but we start out early before the traffic and the heat build … Continue reading →

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CCC304: Master of the Riverside

Posted on September 5, 2024 by crispina kemp

Lord Cormy, the cormorant, perching proud upon his pole Surveyed the length of the riverside His. His domain. His to rule. But Lord Cormy was a blithering fool For not a hundred yards further along Hunkered down Humble in attitude … Continue reading →

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #304

Posted on September 4, 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 … Continue reading →

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Tuesday Treats: Marshland Flora

Posted on September 3, 2024 by crispina kemp

Some (and only some) of the details seen on our walk on 17th August 2024. Enjoy. Purple loosestrife and hemp agrimony Water mint and bittersweet nightshade Meadowsweet entangling with reed; fleabane lending support to willow herb What is surely a … Continue reading →

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