The recent bouts of alternating rain and sunshine have resulted in an explosion of local wildflowers. Today I went for a walk through this amazing field of poppies that’s just up the road from us
red as far as the eye can see
It’s such a shame that they will all have withered away in another week or two and this will just be a green field again. Still, they’re lovely right now and seeing them has made me happy.
Hope you have a happy week where you are.
little cotton rabbits 
That is one of my most favourite sights. I drove past fields like that last week and was so sorry that I couldn’t stop to photograph them.
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Well at least that is one good thing to come from all this awful weather we have been having. Wild flowers always look so pretty and poppies are no exception to this 🙂 x x xx
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Seeing them has made me happy too Julie. 🙂
I’m afraid that despite a good start the weather here has taken a turn for the worst with heavy rain and thunder and lightning! I so wanted some garden time today but it wasn’t to be. 😦
So thank you for cheering me up with your beautiful photos.
Vivienne x
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fairytale:)
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They are lovely, I do love poppies, they are so delicate, but on mass, really pack a punch of colour!
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Such beautiful shots! 🙂
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I love poppies. My grandmother used to have some in her backyard. Bright orange ones. They remind me of delicate flowers made from those tissue paper streamers we decorate with.
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that is an amazing field! we always have a few poppies in the garden – i love how gorgeous and delicate they are.
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How very beautiful. Thanks so much for sharing this bit of beauty hidden from most of us. Don’t take the green for granted as I used to do when I lived in PA and DE. Now that I am in CA I never take green for granted. Southern California has so much brown. Most places you only see green if you irrigate. Thanks again for taking your camera along and actually remembering to snap it and then to share. I’m still working on taking worthy photos.
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Thank you for making us happy too!
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Oh my goodness…that is just so beautiful…breath-taking.
have a happy week
love jooles x
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Wow. 🙂
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I don’t think I’ve ever seen a field full of poppies like this in person – these photos are fabulous. What a great start to the week!
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Poppies are just glorious. I sometimes think the fact that they are so fleeting makes them all the more beautiful! 🙂
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Our ex-allotment used to have poppies all over it wherever we had not worked the soil. They are just the most gorgeous flowers.
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lovely! the pictures are lovely too!
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Wow!! Amazing. Thanks for sharing this beautiful sight.
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oh so stunning. we missed you on Saturday x
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Beautiful! Did you come home and whip up a knitted rabbit in a pretty poppy dress?!
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Wow .. how stunning is that?? I saw a great show recently called ‘Bees, Butterflies and Blooms’, which was about how the UK is losing all the pollinating insects because people are planting mainly hybrid bedding plants, the flowers of which are not open enough fore bees and other pollinating insects to get to the nectar. It was encouraging people and local councils to grow more wildflowers as, without them, food crops will also be affected. This is a classic example of what they were encouraging. It’s just beautiful. You are so lucky to be able to walk there. You have such beautiful wildflowers. If I did that in my paddock, it would be dandelions and 6 foot high giant paspalum!! :o)
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after this splendid vision, I’m happy too!!!
xxx Alessandra
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HI Julie
I have several poppies this colour in my garden but nothing like this amazing show, to have the opportunity to walk through would be wonderful. Ours come and go in such a short time. We are enjoying peony’s just now. I think it would be nice to get out and enjoy the sunshine while it was with you. Here’s to more sunny days.
Jennifer
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Just beautiful! A lovely whiff of country serenity for a city slicker such as myself. Thank you for sharing 🙂
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Lovely photographs. Poppies always make me smile, the poppies here are a little later, so looking forward to seeing them soon.
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Wow – makes me want to get the watercolours out! There do seem to be a lot more wildflowers around this year, I’ve noticed masses of dog roses too. Unfortunately our wildflower meadow from last year has wheat planted this year.
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What a sight! Thank you for sharing these gorgeous pictures.
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Amamzing, and all the more so for it’s brevity.
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One of my favourite views. Poppy fields. Beautiful.
louise x
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Oh wow – wonderful poppies! I have yet to see a field full like that, but would love to photograph one.
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How beautiful. I’m just loving poppies at the moment.
Fleur xx
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soo like the Monet!
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They are glorious! The best place for poppies here, a few miles away, is now under a new road 😦
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The beauty of nature and it costs nothing!
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Pictures like this always remind me of the old Flake adverts, only the crumbliest flakiest chocolate la la la 🙂
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The way they come and go so quickly makes them all the more special.
Love your knitting and hearing all your news. All the best, Emer
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What a beautiful site! It reminds me of Monet’s “Poppies”. Looks like he was standing in that field while he was painting.
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Those poppies are stunning!
x Katherine
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So beautiful!
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Beautiful pictures – thank you, they have helped to brighten up yet another wet day in Cornwall!!
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Nice pictures 🙂 Poppies can be so happy-making. I love to wander around my garden and see what different kinds of poppies I have ‘collected’. So far about four or five kinds. Splashes of colour.
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What a fab splash of colour! I have been needle-felting poppies this week. x Jo
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Lovely pictures…we love Poppies in our house. Whenever we go out for walks my daughter ‘Poppy’ always loves looking out for them! x
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So beautiful, and so nice to see the fleeting beauty of the poppies captured in photos. It makes me want to go out and scatter wildflower seeds–as if it is that easy 😉 How is the blanket coming along and what did you decide to do about the colours? Looking forward to an update.
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I’ve just stumbled across your blog – beautiful patterns and photos! – I’ll be back : )
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Hi I have noticed in one of your post that you have been using a Brittany Birch crochet hook, I am thinking of buying one of these. Do they split the yarn? and also dose the yarn run smooth over the hook? I love your work, your knitting is out of this world. I hope you can help. take care Davina x
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WOW – what beautiful photos. I haven’t popped over to see you for quite a while. I’ll stay a browse.
Hugs
Sarn xxx
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How beautiful! Thank you for sharing! I always forget my camera whenever I stumble across sights like those!
Maggie x x x
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What a glorious sight – make you feel glad to be alive!
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I really am desperately behind. All the books that are ready are up now, but there’s all the rest of it to do – selling, and announcing and trying to get reviews done. It’s almost more than I can brave-up to do. The poppies are beautiful. My Murphy and I were driving to Santa Fe two years ago when we happened to see a large patch of the most beautiful wildflowers = someone had planted them, just scattered a thousand varieties there along the side of the road in one of their pastures. We had to stop the car, and I climbed up on the seat, sticking up through the sun hole in the top of the car, shooting down with the camera and huge trucks went streaking by us, inches away. I think that wildflowers have such a short life because Heaven wishes us to realize that joys are both free and ephemeral – life is meant to be work, but it’s so often unexpectedly decorated in the most glorious ways =
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Oooh, just love those pretty red poppies – they put a smile on my face!
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