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These are now popping up in the fields around and about. I have a thing for poppies of al kinds, but I do love the bright red against the greenery. Their tissue-thin crinkled petals catch and hold the light so beautifully, and change so as the light does.
Common Poppy Papaver rhoeas, June 2018, local field, Staffordshire, England. © Pete Hillman. Sigma 18-300mm lens.
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These flowers are common on fields in southern Sweden and although they are beautiful they are not popular with the farmers. For them they are weeds
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Like crepe paper aren’t they?
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They are very fine, Ark.
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Poppies are a lovely flower, seemingly made of tissue paper, and best of all, beloved of bees.
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They certainly are, Eliza 🙂
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So vivid against the green.
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