Some so fragile they last only a day and are so precious for that quality alone, I make sure to pause – and hard to capture as their petals flicker delicately in the breeze..
Others captivating and attracting the bees from afar…
Red oriental poppies as large as a dinner plate this year..
and standing tall in the grasses where they self seeded… I can hear the noise of bees humming inside them …
The garden is singing with these yellow ones and they choose the margins, the nooks and crannies, the edges – unfurling crinkly petals…
And suddenly up pops a ragged beauty whose petals begin to drift …
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