WEST ACRE GARDENS, KING'S LYNN, NORFOLK

[ranunculus]

What amazed me, Maggi is that people were simply driving by without giving the fields a second glance ... perhaps all the locals have grown accustomed to such a spectacle ... ?

[Maggi Young]

I would hope never to become desensitised to such a wonderful display  but I have seen a similar disinterest in other spectacles  and I have a sneaking feeling that folks are so used to fakery, trickery, computer generated images etc in film and TV  these days that they do not really believe anything they see and therefore have lost the capacity to be enthralled by magnificent nature. I believe it is why so many are inured to violence too .

[Luc Gilgemyn]

I definitely WOULD make a halt to admire these exceptional views Cliff ! 

Fabulous !

[Maggi Young]

As a further aside, Cliff: I trust your camera batteries are well-charged up for the Pudsey Show tomorrow....  for plants and pilgets alike, I hope??!!  

Thank goodness for folks like you, Luc ...... those with a true appreciation of the wonders of the world around us.

[Onion]

Cliff,

without words. A wonderful field. 

[David Nicholson]

Great set of pics as usual Cliff, thanks for posting them.

[Paddy Tobin]

Wow, Cliff, I've never seen so many poppies. Paddy

[ranunculus]

Thanks folks ... I hope your eyes have recovered?

Now for the images taken in Phil and Diane Blyth's lovely garden in Poringland, Norwich ... it was extremely windy so the images may not be quite as clear as they might.

[ranunculus]

Next batch ...

[Maggi Young]

Oh, isn't that last Echeveria the one Mad was searching for  the name for the other day........
( in the second last batch A81)

[ranunculus]

It was Maggi ... well spotted!

The final image from this thread.

... Back to Turkey (or Pudsey)?

[Lvandelft]

Cliff, your poppy fields beat every bulb field around here in Holland. Made me speechless!
Did you only make 17 pictures out there? 

[Eric Locke]

Cliff ,I think this is your best ever batch of photos.

And belated birthday wishes too.

Eric

[ranunculus]

Very many thanks gents,

Luit, I took twenty four shots in the poppy fields - six of them in quite meagre fields before I drove past the magnificent one (there were only two poorly flowered ones, then one good [but split] field and finally one exceptional area) ... the other image is simply a duplicate.  I am most satisfied with the shot that features the enhanced 'stormy' sky. (A53).

Eric, you are very kind ... many of these were taken in rapid succession as I was anxious to continue my long and tiring journey home ... I actually spent just over an hour at West Acre and much of this time was spent perusing and selecting purchases.  ... and thanks for the birthday wishes, it seems weeks ago!  

[Paul T]

Fantastic, Cliff.  Some amazing shots in there.  Bumblebees look like they must be so cute and furry in person. 

Is the a71 in the Blyth's garden an Asarum?  Lovely leaves.