In Norman Fields, Where Poppies Blow

 

A lonely poppy in the field of young wheat.

(Calvados, Normandy)

 

A field of wheat or a field of poppies?

It is like a sea of red poppies.
Near Truttemer le Grand, Calvados.

Wheat field with poppies.

A wheat field with red poppies, near Viessoix, Calvados. / Un champ de blé aux coquelicots rouges près de Viessoix, Calvados

The kind of field Theresa May would have run through as a naughty child.

Remembrance Sunday Poppies

Someone asked me the other day if poppies do really grow in Flanders fields.

They do, and in Normandy too. Here is a photo of red poppies in a field of wheat near the town of Falaise, where the battle for Normandy finished 70 years ago in 1944.

Remembrance Day: 90 years since the end of World War I

A Red Poppy from a field near 'the Corridor of Death' where the Battle of Normandy ended in August 1944.


A Jewish grave in the American Military Cemetery near Omaha Beach.

At a German Military Cemetery near Lisieux.

Normandy harvest, 2008

A Calvados field after harvest and red poppies line a fieldful of wheat still standing.

More photos of harvesting here

Red poppies line Normandy fields

Red poppies line the vast fields West of Falaise where fierce fighting took place during the Battle of Normandy in 1944.