Fields of Poppies

Being a California native, I've always loved the poppy and its' golden blossoms covering the rolling hills and fields of my home county.

Here in the Balkans I have a new love: the red poppy. Each May they begin dotting the landscape in ones and twos. By the middle of the month the firey red covers fields, is mixed in with the wheat and joined by several other wild flowers.

There's just something so striking about the vibrant red contrasted with the deep green of the surrounding grasses and the light blue of the sky that I so enjoy. God's handiwork in full splendor.