Poppies are so beautiful and interesting, even before they bloom.
Submitted for Cee’s Flower of the Day.
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Denzil Nature
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Poppies are so beautiful and interesting, even before they bloom.
Submitted for Cee’s Flower of the Day.
Denzil Nature 
A lovely little story. Yes, it’ll soon be poppy time. That soon sorts out which farmers drown their crops in chemicals, and which ones live and let live.
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Indeed Margaret. Unfortunately the run-off from one can affect t’other.
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Yup. And don’t the wild flowers know it?
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Poppies have the best saturated colors. Cute pictures.
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Thanks Pat.
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Lovely pictures – they are also attractive in seed form, as you know
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Is that the opium you mean Derrick? 🙂
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🙂 Nice reply
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Wonderful shots, especially with the spider!
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Thanks Freda, nice of you to pop by and comment.
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I love poppies and you’re right, the buds are nearly as lovely as the flowers – as are the seed-heads after they bloom 😀
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An all-round photographer’s dream!
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Stunning close ups of this poppy 😀
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Thanks Cee! As affirming as ever!
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These are so amazing poppies !
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Yes, I guess you can’t fail with a poppy picture!
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Lovely!
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Thank you Belinda!
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I love poppies too! Great photos
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I love a tiny spider surprise 🙂
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Indeed Brian. Thankfully we don’t have many poisonous ones.
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Jumping spiders would have to form a gang to do a human any damage 😂
During last weeks conference I aso went to a presentation about Peacock Spiders. When he was going to show us, I grabbed my camera but they were tiny dots on the table that were quite jumpy 😂
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You go to some interesting events Brian.
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One of my favourite spring flowers.
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Yes, you can’t beat a poppy field can you Carol?
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