Janet Brien's photos with the keyword: golden poppy

While en route to the trail head, the caravan of cars pulled off to let all of the cars catch up. I saw these poppies and had to take a picture! So pretty! This photo was taken on July 2, 2011, while on the MeetUp hike to Lost Falls, near Ashland, Oregon

Today was another Sunday Lunch Ride with Steve and the Velo Bike Club, and we put in 30 miles by day's end! Before the ride I had a minute or two to take pictures and found a bunch of California Poppies! I got a bunch of nice images and this is the one Steve liked the best! :) Victor Marie Hugo (26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. He is considered one of the greatest and best known French writers. In France, Hugo's literary fame comes first from his poetry but also rests upon his novels and his dramatic achievements. Among many volumes of poetry, Les Contemplations and La Légende des siècles stand particularly high in critical esteem. Outside France, his best-known works are the novels Les Misérables, 1862, and Notre-Dame de Paris, 1831 (known in English as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame). Wikipedia: Victor Hugo Explored on Flickr on May 5, 2013. Highest position #188.

The garden I grew a couple of years ago was absolutely breathtaking in the number and variety of flowers it produced. Every morning I ventured out to see the new arrivals and sometimes I simply couldn't believe my eyes for all the blossoms everywhere! The most common flowers were two different types of poppies--corn poppies and California poppies--and I planned it that way by sprinkling hundreds upon hundreds of seeds over the whole garden before I planted any other seeds. I knew they would grow and produce flowers because they did so well in my small front garden. However, I was not prepared for the volume of flowers in so many colors...it was an incredible sight! This is one of the lovely California poppy blossoms I captured one morning after it rained the night before. I adore these flowers, and I'm delighted that they are very slowly beginning to spread by themselves outside the garden. They are very prolific all over southern Oregon, but the one time I tried to plant them in a wildflower mix around our property, not even one grew. It seems that I am finally going to get my wish of having these lovely orange beauties add sparkle to our property!

Another image from the archives, this California Poppy was one of the flowers that bloomed from some mixed wildflower seeds I planted during the summer. I put them in a metal trough planter we used one year for sunflowers, and I really didn't know if I'd get anything to grow at all because the seeds were several years old. To my delight, we were given an amazing show of so many flowers I couldn't believe my eyes! As I can, I hope to share some of the incredible beauty that grew from this thimble full of seeds! Gérard de Nerval (May 22, 1808 – January 26, 1855) was the nom-de-plume of the French poet, essayist and translator Gérard Labrunie, one of the most essentially Romantic French poets. Wikipedia: Gérard de Nerval