Most interesting, CP! And what a lovely picture of those poppies spilling out of the castle!
Poppies are the emblem of remembrance of the WWI dead. I’m having a disturbing feeling about that right now that I’m having trouble putting into words. Especially in the context of how poppies have been so greatly misused. They are meant to be a blessing.
I suspect that is part of the discussion over at 8chan.
As far as me being a gardener, I’m very much a brown thumb with flecks of green from time to time. Our REAL gardener is greeneyes, who runs the FR Garden thread!
“Poppies are the emblem of remembrance of the WWI dead.”
Sorry to hijack the thread, but in the spirit of Memorial Day this popped to mind when I ready your post:
In Flanders Fields
BY JOHN MCCRAE
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.