Gorgeous red poppies are popping up everywhere right now…straggly ones beside the road, masses of them in fields… they look wonderful with their papery petals on furry stalks blowing in the wind.
What a pity the season is so short.
Bella Bagni di Lucca
A beautiful village in Tuscany
Bella Bagni di Lucca 
One of my all-time favourite flowers, Deb. Thanks for sharing the photos! x
They look so pretty growing wild everywhere…I love them.
I guess that means it’s stopped raining? Wonderful to see them and know you’ve got hillsides of poppy dotted pasture stretching out from Bagni di Lucca. That’s a sight so redolent with memories i’ll always want to dip into. 🙂
No, it hasn’t stopped raining. It is cold and wet again today!!!!
Beautiful pictures, thank you. I hope the weather is improving.
It is raining again, and cold. It MUST stop soon.
I know – strange weather. Someone we know who is also out there at the moment sent us a message to say its almost June, cold, and trying to snow!
It was 8degrees at 10.00am this morning and there has been snow on the mountains around us…crazy weather!
They are so beautiful. I have put seeds in my garden, but it will be at least one month before I will see any of them…
The wait will be worth it!
Poppies are so beautiful…their bright but delicate petals give such pleasure.
I love it when the poppies appear everywhere.
Lovely. I would really like to see them sometime. Also the sunflowers at the height of their season. We are usually there in October though so even the sunflowers are drying up in the fields by then.
Those fields of sunflowers look amazing. I am not usually here in summer so I miss them too.
One of my favourite flowers thank you for capturing their vibrancy and delicacy. I hope they stand up to the rain. We’ve returned to very strong cold winds in England, but we’ll be back in Ponte 11 June, hoping the sun will have arrived by then 🙂
I’m sure the sun will be here soon and we will all be complaining about the heat.
They look absolutely beautiful. A touch of spring, even if the weather feels more like winter….
It is crazy weather. I am longing for a stretch of sunny days.
Such lovely things, poppies, they’re fragile and bravely cheerful. I’m so sorry about the wet weather you’ve had for so long now – but at least you get to have rubbish weather – in Italy!
I suppose if you are going tp have rotten weather it might as well be here in Italy.
I loved the wild poppies when we were in Italy. Popping up everywhere among the ruins of Ostia Antica, they looked so fragile against stone that has stood for thousands of years. Beautiful.
Thanks for sharing the photos – I love poppies – maybe next year we’ll be there at this time of year (and the weather will be better).
If you will be soon maybe there will be some left.