Friday - July 01, 2011

photos around the neighborhood

Earlier today, the wife insisted I let her show me the fields across the road at the end of our street.  There are four or five large farm fields, generally hidden behind the trees and hedges and vegetation that grows along both sides of a main road leading into Winchester.
At different spots as you drive you can spot a crop of some kind but folks don’t sight see on this road.  Well, as it happens there is one little space where we can pull a car into and get out safely.  Perhaps in normal times I might have walked it as it’s only a couple of minutes away.  At first I wasn’t keen because I guess I’ve gotten lazy, and must face that truth.  But honestly the back was acting up slightly and it showed itself in my left knee. How’s that for weird?
I’m glad I got off my butt though because the view was really nice and but for her I wouldn’t have thought to bring my camera.

There are four or five large fields growing FLAX.

The wife took this shot.

So after that she said she wanted to do a loop around our area and our village to see a particular field that grows something different almost every year.
But we had to drive in some pretty tight places to get there.

I am always nervous driving on these cart tracks, and that’s exactly what they were originally. A one horse cart track. Most of these roads weren’t even paved till after the 2nd War.  We had no place to back up to where we could pull over, so that car you see here backed up about a quarter mile to a small spot used for just that purpose.

We were just tooling around our back garden in a manner of speaking.  All of this is right on our doorstep. In fact, some of it is right outside our front door.
There are some things about this politically nutty place we would really miss.

Well, as I said. I was merely along for the ride and she did find the field she wanted to see.  However, there wasn’t anything to see. At least, not at that place. But there was at this.  It caught our eye and our breath and I wish I could have taken better photos.

Poppies.  And yes. That kind of Poppy.  As in, medicinal.  The lighter colored poppies are actually Opium poppies and are grown under license for medical use.  They are a good cash crop for the farmer and the program has only been introduced here recently.

The red poppies are wild.  Poppy seed can stay in the ground for as long as 20 years until conditions are suitable for it to grow.  So we never know where or when we’ll see them and have bad luck trying to grow the reds in our garden.  Sometimes we get one lonely flower.

Don’t seem to have a lot of luck with morning glories either.
One year we were flush with them, as shown here, and then the next we couldn’t get any to thrive.
One year we seemed to have the snail and slug problem under control, and it seemed after that everything went to flower hell where we couldn’t control them at all.

The sky has gone back and forth between bright sun and blue skies to dark grey clouds every minute or two all day long.

I can’t believe I’ve spent the better part of an afternoon re-sizing and cropping and posting these few photos.  Time seems to fly. Or is that just something we discover with age?

For now, from me, that’s all for today. As always, Stay Tuned.

Posted by peiper     on 07/01/2011 at 08:23 AM   
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