Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “Wood Poppy”
“What a lonely place it would be to have a world without a wildflower!” ― Roland R Kemler Every spring I give myself at least one afternoon to go wildflower hunting. And so, since the sun was shining today and the wildflowers were bound to be blooming, I took off for the creek with the dogs, Marley and Frankie. That …
“What a lonely place it would be to have a world without a wildflower!” ~Roland R Kemler When spring starts warming up and flowers start blooming, my feet get itchy to take a walk down the creek to check on the wildflowers that grow over in a cliff area on my farm. Spring just isn’t right if I miss seeing …
The earth laughs in flowers. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson A week or so ago, I invited you to go wildflower hunting with me and promised that we’d go again. That’s the thing with spring. It gifts us with such a variety spread out over a couple of months. Early, early I had to go walking to find the hepatica blooms that …
“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.” (Pablo Neruda) Here we are starting the second week of April and yesterday snow covered the ground and the weather guys actually have snowflakes in the forecast again tonight. So while the quote above is good that whether we have flowers or not, we still have spring, maybe …
You all are always such fun whenever I have a contest here on One Writer’s Journal. You jump right in and give whatever I suggest a try. Some of you knew your wildflowers and guessed right on my flower picture. It was a poppy. A celandine poppy or wood poppy, to be exact. But for those of you who called it …