Chalk cliff flowers

Flowers in the chalk cliff

7 Day Nature Challenge. Day 4

I was walking along the chalk cliffs near Brighton, noticed these flowers growing out of a ledge and thought how miraculous nature can be.

The lovely Joanne from Coffee Fuels My Photography invited me to the 7 Day Nature Challenge, and I urge you to join too.

~ Spotted Cow

 

4. Wheelies

Boy on scooter and lady on motorised wheelchair Five Photos, Five Stories Challenge Picture 4/Story 4 This was my favourite photo of the day shot when I did the cliff walk outside Brighton. There was a little old lady trundling down the path in her motorised wheelchair. A young lad decided to give chase on his scooter and he raced on after her, causing laughter to erupt from his family. The little old lady must have stepped on the accelerator because he didn’t catch up with her and he gave up!

~ Spotted Cow

The rules of Five Photos, Five Stories Challenge require you to post a photo each day for five consecutive days and attach a story to the photo (It can be fiction or non-fiction, a poem or simply a short paragraph) and then nominate another blogger to carry on this challenge. Do try it !

3. Just Smile

Chalk drawings on the wall

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Picture 3/Story 3

In the last post I told you about the walk I did under the chalk cliffs at Brighton. You are constantly reminded that they are chalk cliffs because the sea wall is punctuated with sequences of graffiti and drawings that people have made with loose white stones lying around. I came across this one that says “Just Smile’ and it instinctively made me smile ! So I took a picture.

~ Spotted Cow

The rules of Five Photos, Five Stories Challenge require you to post a photo each day for five consecutive days and attach a story to the photo (It can be fiction or non-fiction, a poem or simply a short paragraph) and then nominate another blogger to carry on this challenge. Do try it !

2. Under the chalk cliffs

Beneath the chalk cliffs

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Picture 2/Story 2

I discovered a lovely walk that starts from the Brighton Marina, which runs along the sea wall and under the chalk cliffs for about 4½km to the village of Saltdean. Not many people seem to know about it and it’s a lovely respite from the tourist crowds.

The white limestone cliffs against the rest of the monochromatic landscape is beautiful. The exceptional feature about it is that there is a motorway above the cliff and you cannot see or hear it. Walking along the path, you might imagine cows and fields. This is even more impressive if you realise that the cliffs are continually eroding and the road sits right on top of it. I kept looking up to see if I would witness a Mini and a bit of cliff hurtling toward the sea. In the event, nothing happened and I lived to tell the tale.

If you want to look it up, the walk is descriptively called the Brighton Undercliff Walk.

~ Spotted Cow

The rules of Five Photos, Five Stories Challenge require you to post a photo each day for five consecutive days and attach a story to the photo (It can be fiction or non-fiction, a poem or simply a short paragraph) and then nominate another blogger to carry on this challenge. Do try it !