Posted on October 28, 2020
This little grasshopper helps the natural order of things by feeding from an orange poppy.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: 90% One Colour
Category: Flowers Tagged: Cee's Fun Foto Challenge, Close-up, Flowers, Grasshopper, Orange, Orange poppy
Posted on October 21, 2020
Cee is lookung for a combination of orange and green for her Fun Foto Challenge this week. With the stem invisible, this wild orange poppy appears to be floating freely against a green background.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Orange and Green
Category: Flowers Tagged: Cee's Fun Foto Challenge, Green, Orange and Green, Orange poppy, Poppies, trompe d'oeil
Posted on May 10, 2020
“It’s the same story the crow told me, it’s the only one he knows
Like the morning sun you come, and like the wind you go”
– Grateful Dead: ‘Uncle John’s Band’
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About three years ago, we scattered some seeds of an orange poppy and they keep coming back every year, providing splashes of vibrant colour all over the garden. Like life itself, they come, they age and then they go.
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52WeekSmartphoneChallenge 19
Category: Flowers Tagged: 52 Week Smartphone Challenge, 52WeekSmartphoneChallenge, Ageing, lifecycle, Orange, Orange poppy, Poppies, slideshow, Wild Flowers
Posted on July 19, 2019
This grasshopper must have got blown off course, as it finds itself in the middle of an orange poppy in our garden.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Close-up of flowers
Category: Flowers Tagged: Cee's Fun Foto Challenge, Close-up, Flowers, Grasshopper, Orange poppy
Posted on June 7, 2019
Last year, we (which is to say Madame) sowed a selection of wild flowers in a couple of raised beds in our garden. This year we have a colourful swathe of bright orange poppies, which have obviously self-seeded.
Monochrome, however, helps to bring out the detail of the heart of the flower.
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Flower
Category: Black & White, Flowers Tagged: Cee's Black & White Photo Challenge, Flowers, Orange poppy, Poppy