so yesterday i drove out to my hair salon which is several towns away in a reeeally small town.
i am almost always late because it is so many towns away.
i spend most of my drive there worrying that i am late and then usually i am right on time.
occasionally i show up on the wrong day… but that is the not the point of this post.
(i just googled the population of this town… 872! oh my goodness)
so after my hair was colored and cut so nicely i paid and went to my car.
and then i looked to my left and saw poppies!
this man planted all of these.
he was watering with his red tractor… couldn't be any more perfect?!
it was absolutely gorgeous.
it was so sad to me that i did not have my big camera.
i am going to HAVE to go back with it…soon
my grandma loved flowers.
i mean… she LOVED them.
she gave me poppy seeds many times and told me to just sprinkle them in my flower beds & they would come up.
it never worked for me.
she had the magic touch.
as i walked around that little patch of poppies i kept hearing her voice.
she would have been beaming.
she would have noticed all kinds of details that i missed.
it would have made her day.
i miss her.
Lasso the Moon - This made me choke up a little. My grandmother’s nickname was poppy. Now her daughters and grandchildren hold poppies in the highest regard as a way to remember her sweet self. Thanks for this.
Anna
Heidi Jo the Artist - {{{hugs}}} So hard to lose someone so close to you. May God bring you peace and comfort on those tougher days.
Beautiful, amazing, flowers! Oh, how I love spring!
misty - oh this post made me CRY. not tear up, not just a little cry, but one of the THERAPEUTIC cries. My grandma is so so special to me & she is getting older & it hit me the other day that {obviously} she won’t always be here & I am trying to spend so much time with her right now. 🙂 <3 <3 this post. I hope you sell some of these pics as a print in your shop. I'd love to have one. gorgeous.
elisa - Forget the big camera you did an amazing job at capturing the beauty of poppies. I love the farmer and his tractor and the sky is beautiful. I lost my Dad 7 months ago and this post made me cry….I miss him very much. He loved gardening. Thanks for posting this.
Kimberly - So beautiful. Kansas is so beautiful. I’ve never been. But I love how you can capture it for all of us.
Greetings from Wisconsin!
kristine cline - Oh boy…hit the nail on the head with this one…My grandpa passed in November and my grandma passed two years ago…The peonies made me cry…my grandma loved them so…hugs…thanks for the sweet post!
Lesa - Hi, New to you blog.
Beautiful!!
Lesa
http://www.everydaynotesblog.com
Kris Saia - I’ll bet that man on the tractor was tickled you were so taken with his poppies! I love them, too, but I can’t grow ’em for nuthin’… but I keep trying.
Tiffany - DYYYYYYYING at your selfie. The peony pics are wonderful, u sure that wasn’t ur big camera? Having your grammie in your heart is a pretty wonderful place to keep her memories. Happy Friday!
Whitney - Kansas is so so beautiful! I hope to get there someday (for a craft weekend 🙂 ) I am sure your grandmother was looking down on you smiling. Maybe if you try the poppies again she’ll watch over them and make them bloom!
beth larson - oh Meg!!! I loved this post….my momma died when I was 7 and from then on I lived with my gram. She LOVED flowers too…loved, loved, loved them. She passed that on to me and I can’t get enough of them.
I have poppies and bachelors buttons planted in my garden. I sure hope they come up. And bloom.
Your pictures inspired me!
p.s. did you take these with your phone? when I try to post I-phone pics on my blog they have to be really small or they get blurry- any advice?
xo
Michelle - I didn’t know bachelor buttons grew so tall. I always thought they had short stems, like dahlias.
Jen - Beautiful poppies, Meg! I had a dream last night that I was at your farmhouse with you and your family and Craig took me shopping to buy you presents. I bought you one large and one HUGE chalkboard for your house and an upholstered (sp?) chair for your family room. You were so excited! Then you and Craig went on a date and I noticed you lived right next door to a car maintenance repair shop, but the wide open spaces were on the other side of the house. Dreams are so weird!!!
Valerie @ Chateau a la mode - Sorry you are missing your grandma. I totally get it. Missing long, lost loved ones is hard. You must have loved her very much. She sounds like a special lady. You were lucky to know her for so long. Sending you a bloggy hug xo
Mindy - Such sweet pictures. Thankful for those memories of loved ones that come in unexpected ways.
Debbie Hargadon - Beautiful post. I have always thought – the State of Kansas should use your photos and posts as part of their Tourism Board. Your photos make everyone want to go to Kansas! I agree – that last one is spectacular. Thanks for being a positive distraction to so many of us! And the big camera isn’t always “it” It is the eye of the photographer. 🙂
Karyn - Beautiful! My Gram had beautiful flower gardens at her home in Emporia. The poppies in your pictures are lovely but it’s all the ‘bachelor buttons’ that really spoke to me and made me miss my Gram. 🙂
Carol S. - You’ve got her green thumb. My grandma died at 95 and loved flowers and gardening and cardinals and lady bugs…and now I do too. Sweet memories live on forever. It gets easier but keep telling your kids the lessons and clever things she taught you. I just told my son one of her stories about getting a job back in the late 1920s!
Stephanie - Ok, that would be “think of your grandma”….thanks, auto correct!
Gemma - Gorgeous photos! So beuatiful!
Gemma x
http://musings-of-a-gem.blogspot.co.uk/
Tracy - Awwww. I miss my grandma now, too.
The good thing to remember is that she was beaming and noticing all the beautiful details right there with you 🙂
I am always in awe of the idyllic setting you are surrounded by. I love Kansas City (we actually live in Leawood, KS) and all the conveniences just blocks away, but you make living in the country so appealing!
Amanda - My grandmother loved flowers, too. I have dozens of little envelopes full of seeds that she gave me over the years and, instead of just writing the name of the flower on the outside, she did beautiful, colored pencil drawings of them – she was also an artist.
She passed away last night and I’m about to head to New Mexico for her memorial services. You’ve inspired me to stop and take pictures of the beautiful flowers along the way.
Laura Wilder - Have you read Ashleyann’s blog today? 🙂 No wonder you are friends too! 🙂 I call beautiful moments like this ‘hugs from God’. Oh how he cares for us.
Christian T - Be sure to check Ashley Ann’s blog today… 🙂
Lisa - How gorgeous!
Melissa - Those poppies are amazing! What a neat neat guy. I feel your pain as far as missing your grandma – I was going through the same emotions last night. Oddly enough over Waffle cone wednesday at TCBY – drove by and saw the sign and remembered how that used to be our thing. Lucky we have these great memories.
Lela Pohlmann - So beautiful! Isn’t it amazing how the small things in life remind us of our loved ones. My grandma loved butterflies and amaryllis. I have many butterfly attracting plants and flowers in my yard and when the butterflies start flying, I find myself talking to them like they were my grandma.
Alaina Bennett - and the sky…oh, the sky in that last photo!
Amy M. - So beautiful! Can’t wait to see poppies in your shop! Always fun to read your blog! Have a great day!
heather - the blue flowers are bachelor buttons not weeds 🙂
a - My Grandma is old and often bitter and full of mean nasty words. She is making it very difficult to love her right now. She has not always been this way. This post made me realize how important it is for me to love her past all of that. And that one day I will miss her and ache for her and wish I had not let her brokeness tarnish our relationship. Thanks Meg.
MissPam - In Flanders Fields
The poppies blow
Between the crosses
Row on row
Do you know that poem? From WWI by John McCrae I think.
It’s why Veterans groups pass out poppies on Memorial Day.
Goggle the whole poem. I thought that you were mentioning poppies for
Memorial Day. And in an odd way you were.:)
christy - Beautiful tribute to your grandmother.
That last shot looks like a painting! Beautiful!
karen - Beautiful! You take the prettiest pictures. We have beds of orange poppies around town that are all blooming now. I always love it when I see them. 🙂 My grandma loved iris, she had every color there is in her garden. I miss her too…..
Lorie - They are beautiful! My grandmother lives in AZ and I miss living close to her. She is 93 and I dread the day I get a phone call from my parents telling me she has passed. I dread even more that I won’t be there.
🙁
I am sure your grandma was looking down on you while you enjoyed those beautiful flowers!
Kate - How beautiful. Thank you for sharing those with us. I’m so sorry you miss her. Hugs!
jody - There is a little old woman who lives in a little brown house near my home. Every night I walk by her home with my dog Lily. The old woman has beautiful poppies in her yard. I admire them every night they are in bloom & one night she was outside and said “My mother gave me that plant!” So sweet.
Love lives on. Through each beautiful thing on this planet.
Now I will think of your Grandma too when I see poppies!
Alicia @ La Famille - i have those days too. i miss my grandma too. she was a diva. a real betty draper lady…gorgeous.
beautiful pics, girl. can’t believe they’re phone pics!
Laura Lee - You have made me miss my grandma too. She had a magnolia tree in her back yard that I used to climb. I always thing of her when I see one 🙁
Kristin S - I miss my grandmother too. I called her Googie. Her favorite flower was jonquils. I planted a ton of them this year and each one made me think of her.
Kristine - Your pictures and your sentiment are so beautiful. 🙂
karen - I love this post!! So sweet! Thanks for sharing. I miss my grandma too. EVERYDAY.
Jayne Barbour - God makes beautiful things! And you’re even beautiful in your foils;)
Danielle - So pretty! What are the little blue flowers called? I bought a packet of wildflower seeds and this is exactly what it looks like on the side of my house, but my cousin swears the blue flowers are serious weeds. So, now I’m really curious! 🙂
Tonya - She was saying hello.
Stephanie - OMGosh! I’m in love. And the fact that this makes you junk of your grandma….what an awesome reason to remember someone. These flowers are very patriotic!
Terrie - Beautiful patch of flowers! I hate when I don’t have my big camera…
but, you captured it beautifully!
Bought some poppy seeds yesterday…
Yes, I’m behind…but I’m going to plant anyway. 🙂
Ashley - What a beautiful way to be remembered. I always remember my Granny and Pappy dancing around their farmhouse kitchen, or hearing them pray together as I drifted off to sleep. I think they would all be happy to hear of the ways we remember them. I have no doubt that she would be so proud of you.
Lindsey - So beautiful!
Lisa - My grandpa passed away in February and I have moments like these that remind me of him and make me miss him. You should definitely go back with your real camera. Poppies are such sweet flowers. 🙂