Poppy Posies: A Week of Flower Wisdom, Day 1
Monday, June 29, 2009 at 12:20AM 
Just one part of this stunning field of poppies
Drum roll, please…
I hereby announce the first theme week here at the Inspired Writer blog:
Poppy Posies: A Week of Flower Wisdom
SFX: Rousing applause and fanfare.
But first a little background.
On Friday, my friend Julie's mom, Ruth, told us we had to go see the field of poppies.
It was a sight to behold, she said. All along the fencerow of a horse farm subdivision near our houses, some 500 feet in all, were poppies.
Julie went on Saturday and captured some lovely photographs. She was so enthused she called me and insisted I go, too.
So this evening I did.
I felt like Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz, under the spell of these poppies.
(maybe that's why I've been so dreamy this summer — all that poppy dust floating in the air!)
As I was studying the, oh, 160 photos I took. They seemed to speak to me with wise messages.
Brief, but bold and poignant.
So I have decided to honor these sage flowers with a week's worth of wisdom-sharing.
The model is simple: one to three photos and the bits of wisdom they want to share each day.
Wisdom, of course, is best shared in small digestable doses.
Too much poppytalk makes you fall asleep.
Or, put another way:
Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess. ~ Walter Savage Landor
Anyway, short works for me this week.
I'm still feeling pretty all midsummer's dreamy and I'm heading out of town on Wednesday to pick up our daughter from Ohio.
So, I offer you the world premier installment of Poppy Posies with these:
There is enough room for everyone to bloom in the garden of life. The more blooming flowers, the more beautiful our world is.
When you are in the process of blooming big in your life, it helps to surround yourself with other flowers who want to bloom big, too.
When you are growing and birthing your blooming big dream, it's okay to be protective of your seedling at first. Heartfelt dreams sometimes need fierce protection so they can fully take root.
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Tell me, what are the flowers saying to you?
More Poppy Posies to come tomorrow!! Hope you enjoy! Much love, Shannon
Reader Comments (3)
Such a wonderful feeling of nostalgia I get from these photos -- I remember as a kid we had a biggish patch of poppies in the back yard, and I used to watch eagerly for the oddly-colored ones to come up, the occasional orange or pink among the reds. I look forward to seeing your photos, and your wisdom, all week!
All of these messages are SO important! Beautiful metaphors...beautiful YOU.
Great photographs. Great bright colors lighten the summer day. Red, Green, Blue. Neighboring birch grove speaks about family, joyfulness of flowing with the wind, gratitude for open fields for poppies to grow and share their voice, their gift.