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Yorkshire Fog

Nancy's Notes 🖊️♬

Written for Crimson’s Creative Challenge

© Crispina Kemp

From the hilltop, the field looked like it was smoking …. a low pink haze clinging to the grass. I had walked an hour to see it, expecting mist.

Up close, there was no fog at all …. just thousands of tiny spikes, each one dusted rose and rust, nodding together in the summer breeze. Velvet grass, the guide book called it. Yorkshire fog …. blurring in the distance, the old farmer said …. and I was struck by the romance in his words.

I knelt and touched one plume; it was as soft as its name promised, softer than any fog had ever been.

I stayed until the light changed and the pink deepened to copper, thinking how the best illusions are the ones worth walking toward.

Not fog at all, but a flowering
haze of rose and rust
that drifts above the meadow grass
like smoke without the dust.

Each spike a soft-fringed feather,
each feather kissed with wine,
nodding in the summer breeze
where green and pink entwine.

NAR©2026

This is “Summer Breeze” by Seals & Crofts

Crimson’s Creative Challenge #093

Everything seen here was created by me, unless otherwise indicated. Thanks for your consideration. NAR©2017-present.



25 thoughts on “Yorkshire Fog”

  2. Nice combination of a story and a poem, Nancy. Yorkshire fog acts as a weed in pristine lawns and arable crops, but it can be used to feed cattle and caterpillars seem to like it and without them, we wouldn’t have any butterflies.

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      1. Hi Nancy, good to hear from you … damn internet 🛜 is has been down again … but apparently I’m back … the Waterboys an Appointment With Mr Yeats is one of my favourites 🎶🥰

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        1. I’ve been down a bit, too. We are experiencing brown-out imposed by the electric company due to the current intense heatwave; ACs are running at reduced capacity as are our lights and the internet was interrupted for a couple of hours this morning. Right now we’re back up but I won’t be surprised if we’re shut down again. Yesterday we reached 103ºF and we are currently at 100ºF. It’s too much too soon. 🥵

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    1. Yes, I am! This is such a captivating image; I’m so pleased you shared it with us. I love the name “Yorkshire Fog” …. a perfect description, so soothing and romantic. Thanks for your lovely comments, Crisp.

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