16/06/2011

Poppies

Not many landscape photographs of late, weather hasn't been playing ball.
I've been sitting in my hide, in the rain, taking photographs of the birds that come into my garden but you, my fine followers, don't seem to be all that keen on bird shots.
However, yesterday I was meeting people for lunch at the Lion and Lamb in Horsley and, thanks to Twitter I knew I'd be passing some of the Hexhamshire Poppy Fields.
Twitter is a great place for gathering information and two fellow twits kindly sent me maps with "x marks the spot" for the best displays.
TT was driving and we meandered around Hexhamshire, the ones near the Brockbushes roundabout, (take the B6530 towards Bywell) are the easiest to access but we stopped at Chollerford and on the A68 north of Broomhaugh where the yellow Rape flowers are still out.
It looked like jelly and custard with the red and yellow stripes.
As you drive along the A69 you keep seeing great swathes of red and what a magnificent sight they are.
Here are some of the shots I took, including one that was shown on Look North Weather last night.
Oh! by the way the food at the Lion and Lamb at Horsley was excellent, we shall return.

Poppies on the road towards Bywell and Corbridge.

A sea of red

View across the Tyne Valley from the A68 north of Broomhaugh

Poppies and Oilseed Rape near Chesters Fort at Chollerford


Near Chollerford.

While I'm featuring flowers I'll include one I took today at Washington WWT of the Bee Orchid -thank goodness for these flowers, I got nothing worth having from my bird photographs so the Orchid at least saved the day being a total disaster.

Bee Orchid at Washington WWT.


As usual all photo's are copyright of Joan Thirlaway and can't be used without written permission.

3 comments:

WalkingMarj said...

The poppy fields look wonderful and I live very close to the one at Chollerford. An American visitor at the weekend had not seen anything like them. I love the bee orchid photo too.

paulvick said...

Hi Joan Thanks for the tip about the field near Corbridge. I got a fantastic photo on Tueday evening. Dont know if you can recall this but I bumped into you at Sycamore gap last year and was visiting the old blog site until recently. Keep taking photos :-)

Paul

JoT said...

Thanks for the comments.
Paul so pleased I was able to point you in the right direction. It's a spectacular sight.