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@Fleura (34989)

• United Kingdom

16 Jul 19

I remember fields of sunflowers in South Dakota too! My friend wondered why they grew so many; I said I guess they are for sunflower oil. Of course! He hadn't thought of that - even though he used it to cook with every day!

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (382019)

• Rockingham, Australia

17 Jul 19

@Fleura And for the seeds too I guess. It's funny what we don't think of sometimes.

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@Fleura (34989)

• United Kingdom

17 Jul 19

@JudyEv Yes, sometimes we don't make the most obvious connections!

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crazyhorseladycx

@crazyhorseladycx (39503)

• United States

15 Jul 19

oh, 'tis gorgeous! kinda makes ya wish fer'n aerial view, eh? yup, i'd not disclose such. i dunno what's come o'er folks these days? they've no respect fer others property...

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crazyhorseladycx

@crazyhorseladycx (39503)

• United States

16 Jul 19

@Fleura aint that pitiful what folks 're doin' fer 'ttention, likes? so much destructive behavior rewarded....

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@Fleura (34989)

• United Kingdom

16 Jul 19

@crazyhorseladycx You've hit the nail on the head there. Pitiful, that's exactly what it is.

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@Fleura (34989)

• United Kingdom

16 Jul 19

I don't think people have changed much, it's just that in the past they were not given much attention for trampling a field of crops, but now they could get thousands of 'likes' on Instagram.

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Sanna_S

@psanasangma (7910)

• India

16 Jul 19

Wow, Its' beautiful and quite large scale farming

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Sanna_S

@psanasangma (7910)

• India

16 Jul 19

@Fleura

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@Fleura (34989)

• United Kingdom

16 Jul 19

You are right, it is a large expanse. Many farms now are really big, hundreds of acres. It is no longer possible to make a living farming 20 acres or even 50 as it was just a generation ago.

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Anna

@LadyDuck (502394)

• Italy

16 Jul 19

I love poppies, they are all gone here, I picked up some pods to plant the seeds in my garden, let's see if it works.

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Anna

@LadyDuck (502394)

• Italy

16 Jul 19

@Fleura I got the seedheads from wild poppies that grew on the border of the road, my neighbor has beautiful big poppies, I will ask him some seeds.

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@Fleura (34989)

• United Kingdom

16 Jul 19

Little One loves them too. On the way to school we pass one house that has lovely poppies in the front garden and I have to tell her that they won't like it if we steal the seedheads!

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Fiacre Banks

@xFiacre (14805)

• Ireland

15 Jul 19

@fleura I wonder what poem Wordsworth would have come up with if he’d come across a host of crimson poppies instead of a host of golden daffodils fluttering and dancing in the breeze? Your pic is a beautiful sight to behold.

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Fiacre Banks

@xFiacre (14805)

• Ireland

15 Jul 19

@Fleura Oh you need to take a picnic and spread a blanket in the thick of the poppies, and run barefoot through them, lie among them if you want to adapt Wordsworth.

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@Fleura (34989)

• United Kingdom

15 Jul 19

@xFiacre Well that sounds lovely and romantic but I'd be damaging somebody's work!

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@Fleura (34989)

• United Kingdom

15 Jul 19

I was glad I took that road! Most of the poem is non-specific in terms of flowers, just three or four lines, so I'm sure it could easily be adapted. Just trying to think of a rhyme for poppies (instead of hills and fills to rhyme with daffodils).