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I know my family is suffering badly with the below zero temps and wind chill, so I couldn't let the beautiful day we had today go unheeded. My favorite hiking buddy and I headed out for a good hike in my favorite boulder field.
A westbound Canadian Pacific train drops into Field, British Columbia, amid the beautiful Canadian Rockies (even in the rain!) on July 18, 2011. The weather changes quickly up here though; by the time the mid-train DPU rolled by, it was full sun!
This is my youngest niece .....a real bundle of fun and attitude ......love her to bits! And at 13 she towers above myself and her mother .....i see a super model in training!
Andrew sitting at the foot of the Glacier Fields, which we hiked many an hour uphill to get to. In the end, it was 1000 times worth it. The hugeness of the place is absolutely un-caputurable on film. Hopefully having Andrew in the frame gives you a sense of scale.
The poppies stamped with brilliance chocolate and clear embossed. Colored with distress inkt wild honey and on the open flowers added some liquid pearls mixture for an extra shimmer. Masking the flowers and sun and sponged the background.
Stamps used:
Delicate blossoms CL449
Silhouette grass S5316
sentiment - Almeria Art (Dutch)
Panoramic shot of a field with bales of straw awaiting "collection/roundup" outside Liff
Large view: static.flickr.com/99/251823089_24af348f75_b.jpg
It's been grey and gloomy with poor light and no shadows to speak of, and so I'm looking at photos from this past summer...
Explored Sep 29, 2017 #269
In the Barley field near Tumby Woods (see my previous upload) there were lots of these beautiful little pansys growing up through the crop. It was a real treat finding these little flowers in amongst the barley. In normal years, the crop would have been harvested over a month ago and the stubble probably sprayed off to kill weeds before re-planting for next year - one reason why so many of our native wild flowers have suffered so badly.
The delicate Field Pansy (Viola arvensis) is a wild relative of our garden pansy and can be found in fields and on waste ground and roadside verges - anywhere the ground has been disturbed. Its long-stalked, pale yellow flowers can be found winding their way through the grasses from April to October. It is native to Europe, western Asia, and North Africa, and it is known on other continents as an introduced species and a weed of disturbed and cultivated areas.
Viola arvensis was shown to contain cyclotides, a class of peptides found in plants. The peptide cycloviolacin O2 in particular has shown to possess cytotoxic activity against human cancer cells and is therefore looked at as a potential drug lead.
I drove past this field a few days ago and noticed a small number of white flowers at the top of the enclosure. 3 days later I took a chance and drove back to see what three days of sunshine had done. It was very much worth it and I don't think these beautiful poppies have even peaked yet as there were plenty of small plants yet to bloom. Farmed beauty.