Poppy Lanterns

Remembering

Visit collection: Wonderful Britain
Field of bright red poppies, the setting sun has made them look as if they are lanterns as the sun shines through them.
Poppies open in the morning light Then close again before twilight. Fields of red, a patch, or just one Poppies shine with hope in the morning sun Red embers glow as the sun sinks low. Poppy petals cup their face Closing in a tender embrace. Silence falls as the evening stills Poppy lanterns light up the fields.
  • Poppy Lanterns
  • Bishopsbourne
  • Kent
  • UK

Poppies are one of a handful of flowers that close at night. This I discovered on a sunny July evening. My husband had arrived home from work and mentioned seen a glorious field of poppies on his travels. How could I not visit? Camera in hand off we set. It was now late evening and we found the field to be bathed in the last of the setting sun's golden rays. Most of the poppies had closed up shop for the day, it is apparently what they do and in this seemingly simple act, the field appeared to glow with little red lights. How enchanting.