I like the composition, with the row of 3 in front and the V-shaped arrangement in back heading off toward the corner.
The front ones look a bit soft, but the back ones look sharp. Personally, I'm partial to the red poppies that grow in the UK and Europe. But these are nice, too. Rick --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ...so semi-turned off by the poppies that sort of > looked planted (seeds > scattered), in someone's front yard in Clayton, I > thought of a county hiking trail. > I'd seen quite a few poppies along it's edge last > year. > > I headed on over -- fewer poppies, by miles, this > year. But still some. Part > of the trail has houses on the other side. So I > parked in front of a house and > walked up the trail and took poppy shots. > > Then when I was walking back, I spotted a little pot > of land planted with > cultivated flowers of some kind, and a sign on a > tree over it that read, > "Roxana's garden." This bordered the poppies that > bordered the trail. > > A woman right near where I parked was raking in her > yard, so I went up to > her. "Are you Roxana?" Turns out it was her dog. > > It also turned out, yup, county workers had weed > wacked the whole area, > cutting down a lot of poppies in among the weeds. > > But it also turned out, that the poppies I was > looking at had been planted by > HER!!! (Seeds scattered, still think one can't > cultivate CA wildflower > poppies). And the poppies I had probably seen the > previous year were also seeded by > her. > > She tried to get the county workers not to wack them > down, but because she'd > seeded them, and they were not natural, I suppose it > was not an offense > against the state law to not destroy poppies. > > They were still California poppies, but not, cough, > really NATURAL poppies. > > At this point in time, I am discouraged. No poppy > fields, the natural poppies > I have found are really mixed in with weeds, and > they nice clumps I have > found have turned out to be (or likely were) seeded > by someone. > > WHERE ARE THE FIELDS OF NATURAL CALIFORNIA POPPIES? > The fields of > yesteryear??? Even THE CLUMPS OF YESTERYEAR? > > Sniff. Sniff. > > However, image-wise, this was getting closer to what > I want... > > http://members.aol.com/eactivist/POPPIES/pages/poppy4.htm > > But I think it's a little too cut off on the left. > > And, frank, Peter, does this look too soft too? > > The great poppy hunt goes on... searching for the > wild poppy in its natural > wild habitat... > > Marnie aka Doe ;-) > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
