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11-11-2006, 12:23 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Laindon, Basildon, Essex.
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Firstly, I must say that I do like the new poppy header to the WAB home page which has appeared following the upgrade  .
Secondly, it does seem that unfortunately these colourful signs of high summer are becoming scarcer.
I remember a few years ago seeing many fields and roadside verges in Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk populated with poppies .... but not now  . Where have all the poppies gone?
Anyone else still seeing poppy fields in their area?
Richard |
11-11-2006, 01:14 PM
|  | Dame Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: North Kent
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Originally Posted by rlchew  Firstly, I must say that I do like the new poppy header to the WAB home page which has appeared following the upgrade .
Secondly, it does seem that unfortunately these colourful signs of high summer are becoming scarcer.
I remember a few years ago seeing many fields and roadside verges in Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk populated with poppies .... but not now . Where have all the poppies gone?
Anyone else still seeing poppy fields in their area?
Richard | Very appropriate considering today's date.Last year a local farmer turned his field over and in June there was an explosion of poppies. It was even pictured on local news. There were people far and wide coming to picture it.
I think they're beautiful and always means the beginning of summer to me.
I noticed that this year the coastal horned poppies did well. Love their wonderful yellow colour. julie
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11-11-2006, 01:53 PM
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I also love the poppies at the top of the page
If you have to turn the soil over for them to germinate. |
11-11-2006, 04:50 PM
|  | Officer of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Gloucestershire
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A very fitting image and a mark of respect for today I agree.
You might like to see this wonderful photograph taken by WAB's own Kev Lewis (submitted in August this year) Link .
Click on the small image to see the full size version. I could gaze into it for hours. Perhaps we should all make a point of planting some next spring, where we're able to? |
11-11-2006, 05:44 PM
|  | Frozen | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Mendip Dist. Somerset
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Originally Posted by Owl-Light A very fitting image and a mark of respect for today I agree.
You might like to see this wonderful photograph taken by WAB's own Kev Lewis (submitted in August this year) Link .
Click on the small image to see the full size version. I could gaze into it for hours. Perhaps we should all make a point of planting some next spring, where we're able to? | Thanks, my deer, for the link, great picture  |
11-11-2006, 06:24 PM
|  | Officer of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Deepest Dorset
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the google home page is good too, they are always topical with their homepage |
11-11-2006, 06:33 PM
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I sprinkled some poppy seeds on my dog poppy's grave last year, this year after turning the soil i got one plant which the hover flies loved |
11-11-2006, 09:06 PM
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richew
I was so pleased you opened this thread today as one of my photographs [a single poppy] has been published today on Welcome! :: Fotopic.Net
I hope some of my friends at WAB will take the time to view.......
Ian
ps I do really hope for some feedback
Thanks again.
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11-11-2006, 09:14 PM
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Nice pics. Where'd that music come from? |
11-11-2006, 09:26 PM
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Deer Stalker
the music comes from the film 'braveheart' I downloaded it as a midi file, however I am getting mixed comments as to wether I should have background music.......what do you think?
anyway glad you liked the pics and thanks for the reply.
Ian.
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11-11-2006, 09:33 PM
|  | Knight Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Sheffield, FPRSY
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They are strange things poppies - said to be disappearing *but* only from the places where we'd expect them, cornfields. The reason, of course, is that farmers now use herbicides that kill off poppies and every other cornfield annual.
On the other hand, if you go to landfill sites and gravel scrapes you will see great swathes of poppies. They'll never be eliminated as long as humans keep turning the soil over! Quote:
Originally Posted by Wild-Woman Very appropriate considering today's date.Last year a local farmer turned his field over and in June there was an explosion of poppies. It was even pictured on local news. There were people far and wide coming to picture it.
I think they're beautiful and always means the beginning of summer to me.
I noticed that this year the coastal horned poppies did well. Love their wonderful yellow colour. julie | |
11-11-2006, 09:36 PM
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Originally Posted by MCLEISH Deer Stalker
the music comes from the film 'braveheart' I downloaded it as a midi file, however I am getting mixed comments as to wether I should have background music.......what do you think?
anyway glad you liked the pics and thanks for the reply.
Ian. | No worries Ian.
The music aint too bad, not intrusive or anything. I'd say leave it how it is. |
11-11-2006, 09:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Deer Stalker No worries Ian.
The music aint too bad, not intrusive or anything. I'd say leave it how it is. | Thanks
Ian.
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11-11-2006, 11:05 PM
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Thanks for remembering by showing a poppy field
Ian.
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11-11-2006, 11:43 PM
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Originally Posted by MCLEISH Thanks for remembering by showing a poppy field
Ian. | Yes that is nice and such a lovely photo of a poppy field |
12-11-2006, 07:33 AM
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I have posted a pic in forum images of my poppy with hover flies, but as usual am having trouble posting it 
I done it |
12-11-2006, 07:54 AM
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Originally Posted by Owl-Light A very fitting image and a mark of respect for today I agree. | Yes, a nice touch for Remembrance Sunday. A Pittance of Time
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12-11-2006, 08:47 AM
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Originally Posted by Tormentil | Thank you Tormentil. An apt song for today. Julie
Here's a poppy from me.
img]http://www.wildaboutbritain.co.uk/gallery/files/9/8/0/poppy.jpg[/img]
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12-11-2006, 08:47 AM
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Thank you Tormentil. An apt song for today. Julie
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12-11-2006, 09:19 AM
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Great pic mrs fish, you couldn't fit anymore hover flies on it.
As for rememberance day, John Snow said he wouldn't wear a poppy on tv and that people shouldn't. I respect other views but to me it's simply about remembering those who suffered terribly in war, many didn't know how awful it would be when they signed up, and isn't to me a political matter at all.
I do see quite a lot of poppies still, I have a photo very similar to kev's that my dad took. |
12-11-2006, 09:44 AM
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Originally Posted by honeybee Great pic mrs fish, you couldn't fit anymore hover flies on it.
As for rememberance day, John Snow said he wouldn't wear a poppy on tv and that people shouldn't. I respect other views but to me it's simply about remembering those who suffered terribly in war, many didn't know how awful it would be when they signed up, and isn't to me a political matter at all.
I do see quite a lot of poppies still, I have a photo very similar to kev's that my dad took. | Mine was taken up on Painwicks Beacon Honeybee, looking South East. So it is very possible that it was the same field |
12-11-2006, 10:02 AM
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My dad made me get up very early to go and take some pics, was a beautiful summer morning. It was over the Duntisbourne valley and looks very similar to yours. I can't believe it but it was nearly twenty years ago (that makes me feel old!)  |
12-11-2006, 10:15 AM
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Originally Posted by honeybee As for rememberance day, John Snow said he wouldn't wear a poppy on tv and that people shouldn't. I respect other views but to me it's simply about remembering those who suffered terribly in war, many didn't know how awful it would be when they signed up, and isn't to me a political matter at all. | In full agrement with you there honeybee.
I'm reading a book at the moment called "Forgotten Voices of the Great War". Its just a collection of short first hand accounts from people of all ages, positions and sides at the time of the first World War. It's not political, just human.
I wear a poppy in memory of all those who live through or are lost in such dreadful times, then and now. | | |
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