Pictures to entertain, bring joy, and inspire you to create with words or images, if you wish. Whether that’s a poem, story, play, novel, memory, essay, painting, drawing, sculpture, or another photograph is up to you. Don’t feel obliged: you can just enjoy the pictures. My image is untitled to avoid directing anyone. If you need to know, the title is here.
I’d love to know if you use the pictorial prompt. You can post a link to your work, or the work itself, in the comments section, if you want. If you use my image, please credit me in the form of a link to this post. That way, more people will see both our creations.
The idea is to have fun and get those creative juices flowing.
From time to time, I’ll include something I’ve written, inspired by the image.
To see a selection of my pictures, look in my Gallery or for even more, here.
Stuart Aken 
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I can almost hear the water hitting the rocks below the dam and feel the coolness on my skin. So peaceful and calming.
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The overflow at the end, Brenda, is quite picturesque, but almost impossible to capture with a camera due to its location. I’ve tried several times, but the vegetation and the nature of the ground always defeats me, so I remain content with the pool.
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Beautiful forest waters!
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Thanks, Lynette. It’s a lovely place where we’re privileged to walk frequently. A little distance from here, where part of this stream flows across an area of flat ground, is a wallow used by the wild boar to cool in during the warmer months.
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What a gorgeous photograph of the creek. Is this the one that sometimes floods? It is really clean looking. Hope you and Valerie are well. Sending my love. 🤗❤️Joni
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Yes, Joni, this is the brook that eventually flows through part of the village and sometimes overflows its banks. It has now been more fully confined within an underground culvert at the flood points, so we’re hoping it won’t do any further damage.
But here, where the shot was taken, the brook flows through the natural landscape after escaping the engineering efforts of the beavers further upstream, which is why it’s so clean.
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It is so clean that was one thing I noticed right away. I loved that shot and remembered about your brother that lives on the other side I think some where. You two take care. Sending my love to you and Valerie. ❤️🤗💕🦋
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I suspect you’re thinking of another picture of a waterway, Joni. My brother lives in Yorkshire, close to the River Ure, which I’ve featured here. It’s about 200 miles or so north of us. We’re hoping to visit later this month, so there’ll probably be more shots of that other river!
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Lovely to stick your hot sweaty feet in!
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This pool was crated by a combination of the topography and some work done by local kids to form a place they cool in during the summer, Noelle. Many small toes have cooled in here!
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