poppies....

ok, so......i knew that at least one poppy would be in bloom when i arrived home at 8:30 from anderson county...because several yards along my route had a full cadre of poppies abloom.....mine has just the one so far...but that single burst of orange stands out like.....an explosion of contrast color amid the sea of greenish hues.....i count at least a dozen potential blooms....on a par with the iris i have counted....yeah....a more obsessive gardener would have depleted the unopened bag of perennial fertilizer on the porch by tossing a little bit here and a little bit there....i did apply the rose food....which explains their (expected) banner year but i digress from the poppies...which remind me so of the wizard of oz.....and the poppy field......yeah...those were not real poppies....my emotional connections require no stake in reality....and this is a theme that will fall dormant until poppy season next year.....i will enjoy every minute of it...........