Poppies

[hazeii]

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[liz_lowlife]

Are they poppies?!

[hazeii]

Yup (Dyke road in background). That red might look like photoshop fakery but it's not, the real thing is socks-off.

Insane blue fields of flax below Chanctonbury too right now.

[liz_lowlife]

I was going to cycle up that way today but my bike is broken. :o(
I hope they last until it is fixed!

[hazeii]

If not those (they only last a few days) then some other fields will be doing the bloom thing. Still, that one was the reddest ever I've seen.

I fix bikes for wine - what's wrong with it?

[incy]

where was the photo taken?

[hazeii]

From the footpath past a 12th century Knights Templar hangout, out the back of Devils Dyke.

Specifically, from the Sussex border path about 1/2 mile along from Saddlescombe (NT). TQ277113,

[hazeii]

Blimey, I took a look at your calendar, I better get organised to have any hope of making it this year (plan: grab camera and credit card, point bicycle south, pedal for a while).

[eviltemptress69]

Wow! That is absolutely breathtaking! I'd love to be there.

[hazeii]

Rode past it again yesterday; thing is, poppies only last a brief time, seems I seized just the right moment. Still impressive, even fading.

The local hills change in moments this time of year; today (or was it yesterday?) the breathtakers were blue flax and yellow oilseed.

And very green all year around!

[eviltemptress69]

It's just like the ocean. Ever changing, but always seeming to be beautiful.

I'm so jealous of the weather - here it just gets bitterly cold, and of course green turns into brown with death, and then white with snow.

Always quite the cycle out here.

How are things up your way?

[hazeii]

I guess, what it is about British weather is, is it rarely gets extreme, it rarely gets predictable. Rarely that bad, rarely that good.

And you're talking like it's the end of summer already.

I'm happy grabbing these moments, these few months in the sun.

[hazeii]

Red/Green colour blind, per chance?