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I was up early and at brocantes at dawn this morning, but I’m afraid you’ll have to wait until tomorrow for my loot shoot. Why? Because this is a long weekend and tomorrow I shall go to a couple more! I shall show you all my purchases on the blog tomorrow.
In the meantime, to keep you happy, I bring you a few photos of poppies that I took this week. I’m so glad that the weed killers have no effect on this pretty flowers, I love to see them peppering a field of wheat or barley.
I hope you are enjoying a wonderful weekend
thank you for stopping by!
Thank you to Susan and Kris for telling me that tomorrow is Memorial Day in the States. I have published this poem before, but it seems appropriate again today.   In Flanders Field.
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What a lovely vieuw …Have a nice Sunday
Hugs
Erna
Winter is on our doorsteps. Lovely to know that the poppies are in bloom. Love from South Africa
These are fabulous photos, I love to see fields of poppies, they are such a beautiful vibrant colour.
Splendide foto…mettono tanta allegria!
Felice domenica!
Luci@
Quelle joie d'avoir trouvée ton blog!
Moi, comme Allemande, je suis aussi à l'étranger, mais la jolie Drôme est devenue facilement mon chez soi.
Eh ben, il faut trifouiller un peu ici!
As tomorrow is Memorial Day in the USA, it was so appropriate to see fields of poppies on your blog today, Sharon. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you for sharing the field of poppies. As Susan said, such appropriate timing for us here in the USA. Do you know the poem 'In Flanders Field' by John McCrae?
Hooray for the new header!! 😉 And I'll take the poppies, thank you very much. They always, always make me happy.
Beautiful photos….I love those poppies…ours are blooming now too. I have California Poppies(yellow-orange) in my garden every year that bloom all Summer and into Fall.
Cara Sharon
quando visito la francia,
tanti ricordi mi rimangono nella mente e nel cuore,
uno di questi, sono i vostri campi di grano con tanti papaveri!!
anche campi di girasoli,e la meravigliosa lavanda,(un pò più provenzale).
Grazie per averci mostrato queste bellissime foto……i papaveri fanno allegria.
baci Giò
Such a beautiful poppies field. Your photos captured the beauty of the flowers so well. Also very appropriate for the Memorial Day in the USA. But here in Canada we commemorate Armistice Day on November 11th.
Thank you for including the wonderful 'In Flander's Fields', one of my favourite WW1 poems. I can't see a poppy without thinking of it. I hope next year to go with my son on a school history tour to the battlefields of Belgium and France in April,so I will get to see those poppies for myself, (and probably shed a few tears too).
Had a laugh at the new header. It is such a lovely image 😉
I remember that poem from years ago. Thanks for the beautiful memorial to Memorial Day.
Love those poppy images. Vast seas of red heads waving in the breeze…
happy hunting!
Such beautiful photos… My best remembrances while living in beautiful Croatia as a child, are train rides adorned by beautiful poppy fields all along the way.
Thank you for the beautiful photos of poppies.
I loved your old header–but I love this one too. Also because as I was looking around my back garden, sitting on a new bench I put together with cushions I had made, I saw plants that are still in pots and need transplanting, Daisy's toys strewn everywhere, laundry flapping in the warm breeze..it felt chaotic like your day did yesterday. But then I thought of some of the comments I read yesterday and thought: if someone takes a picture of this scene, it would look idyllic too–even if it felt chaotic to me. So I thought about perspective..
Thank you for the poppy pictures, they remind me what time of year it is again in Denmark where I have spent many lovely times with family and poppies. Lise-Lotte from partygreen(dot)ca
Beautiful poem and images. I think poppies are gorgeous and to think that they grow in fields of wheat and barley wild and untamed. I didn't know weed killer couldn't kill them.
Happy Memorial Day and Pentecost.
Great flowers! We have some vining poppies here that are in full bloom also. Thanks for sharing the poem.
So B E A U T I F U L!!!!!!
I want to lay down in this beautiful field of poppies and watch the birds,
the clouds and the world go by. Beauty in all forms gladden the heart and
feed the soul. My soul considered it being fed this morning…:)
Thank you for the Memorial Day wish and poem. Memorial Day never fails
to move me. The memories of those who have gone before us and the brave ones…"who are known only to God".
To all, have a peaceful and relaxing day!
Un champ de coquelicots! Que c’est beau! Thank you also for the poem – it is the time that here in the US veterans are remembered. My father was gravely injured in WW2 and my mother narrowly escaped certain death while working with the Resistance, and it is good to honor all of them.
I loved seeing fields of poppies in Italy several years ago around this time to be exact…even a random few in the cracks of some of the sidewalks! I planted some from seed this and so far I haven't seen even a peep…but I'm still looking and wishing for a stand! Have a great day!!! Thanks again for making our days a little brighter with your lovely blog!
Can we trade places for just one day????? You can come take my traffic jams, obnoxious people in the markets moaning and groaing about the lines taking too long, spoiled teenagers wimpering when they can't borrow the car to go to the mall, and my overscheduled life and I will take your fields of poppies, brocante fairs and horses grazing right outside my front door!! PLEASE:)
Wizard of Oz…my baby Betty calls me Poppy…like the flower
Thank you so much for the lovely photos of the poppies. But most of all for John McCrae's beautiful poem. So appropriate for this weekend.
~ Christina ♥
Los Angeles
Very nice, thanks for sharing.
Lovely photos of poppies. Thanks for sharing. Jennifer
Just wanted to say I really enjoy seeing all the photos you post on your blog. The poppies are especially lovely, as they remind me of the short period when I lived in Italy. Unfortunately, I never see any now that I am back in Texas. Your photos are beautiful, inspiring and always leave me with a smile.
-Casey
Oooh, boy……the farmers HATE those poppies. Since I don't happen to do my farming in France, I love them (the poppies, not necessarily the farmers).
I've tried to grow them here in North Carolina, but it ain't happening…..rather like Autumn cyclamens (which not only grow "like" weeds in my in-laws' cherry orchard outside of Tours, but actually ARE weeds).
similarly?….I struggle to raise acanthus (and pay top-dollar for each plant). I'm so thrilled if even one blooms. The first time I carried out the trash for 85 year old Great Aunt Yvonne at her house in Argeles, I opened the back gate and found myself in an alleyway which was FILLED with blooming acanthus….all up and down each side, as far as you could see. When I mentioned that, she immediately apologized for not having had the yardman cut down all the "weeds".
French Poppies, cyclamens, and acanthus……proof, once again, that one man's trash is another man's treaure…..
—-david terry
http://www.davidterryart.com
Beautiful pictures of poppies, thanks Sharon
A most poignant post, Sharon.
When I was a little girl, I used to love to open the red box where my mom had put all of the WWII ribbons and 'decorations' given to her first husband, who had perished in the Pacific, my uncle who had lived through D-Day, only to be killed in an accident months later in NYC, and my dad who was in the Merchant Marine. I loved the colors and shapes and could only conger up my child's eye view of what those War experiences must have been like. She told me about the poppies in Flanders Fields and the tradition of the Veteran's selling crepe paper poppies in memory of fallen Vets. We sat and read this very same poem, time and time again. It is emotional to me, remembering the losses of so, so many who fought to keep us free.
To this day when I come face to face with American military, I am awestruck and can barely utter a thank you and an out-stretched hand in gratitude for their selfless service.
As I have been contemplating the timing of my trip to France next Spring, I know now that I must be there for US Memorial Day, 2013.
Thank you.
xoxo, Chris
Yes, it is the somber Memorial Day weekend in the U.S. and we are bombarded, not to make a terrible pun, by war movie after war movie on the television, although there have been some very poignant documentaries about the Normandy invasion on public broadcast television ("educational" TV). I've never quite understood the order of landings at Normandy, but I'd been told my American uncle hit the beach on the second day ("the second wave") of battle, yet he never once spoke of it; not once, to anyone. It can't have been good for him to do that; I fear the veterans of World War II did not get the therapy they should have had for the trauma and stress they endured from such battles. What I couldn't imagine while I was watching one documentary film, and I kept thinking of your blog with the lovely photos and images of your peaceful countryside, was how anything remained intact after all the bombing. How on earth did French farmhouses, little churches and buildings in small villages survive the desecration, not to mention people, their livestock, the businesses, their pets, wildlife, etc. Such loss. Such interruption, of life. There was much talk about the hedgerows, which made the combat harder because they were such well-established natural fencing. The horrors of war; I just couldn't watch any longer. Our surviving World War II vets are very elderly now, and my uncle and my veteran dad are both gone, but we shall fly the flag for them tomorrow. I wish they could see your beautiful poppies. The countryside today seems so unmarked, nearly seventy years later. It doesn't sound like you initially intended it, but you couldn't have posted more tug-at-the-heart photos than those vibrant flowers in a field.
I love your new header; that's a marvelous photo of your dog and the horses in the front yard (I really liked your previous post about the loose horses!).
Fields of poppies – what a glorious sight – it always reminds me of Flanders poppies and the men who gave their lives in the name of freedom. God rest their souls.
absolutely lovely 🙂
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How I love countryside! It makes me feel tranquil and at ease. The photos are so lovely, just as impressionists would have made them.
wow, these are the most beautiful poppy shots ever!
i love your blog/photography!
Lovely picture of the glorious poppies.It was nice to read the Flanders poem again as it has been a long time since the last read.
You have taken my breath away……..so inspirational….must do a little 'red poppy' painting soon!!!!!!