Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Poppy Birthday to Me

This weekend was my birthday weekend, so Dear Husband and Tayta asked me where I would like to go for a wildflower outing. We didn't have a lot of time and cold, rainy weather was predicted for the late afternoon, so we didn't go far or plan a sit-in-the-sun picnic. I had noticed that poppies were blooming around the kingdom so I suggested that we try to find the famed field of poppies in Anjara, a village close to Ajloun. We didn't find the field, but I wasn't disappointed as we saw many poppies along the Mafraq-Jerash road, and later as we meandered through the mountain villages near Ajloun.


Horned Poppy
Glaucium alleppicum

Also along the way, Dear Husband pulled over to look for black irises in a place we had once seen them. I hadn't remembered the spot, and besides, I opined, I think they must have all bloomed by now. All the others I'd recently seen were spent. The irises were there and they were at the peak of their bloom. I told Dear Husband that I considered them my birthday bouquet from him. Turns out that he had looked for a bouquet of cut flowers for me in Mafraq, but could find nothing suitable. The natural bouquet of black irises suited me very well!


Black Iris
Iris nigricans


Crazy flower lady with her birthday black irises

2 comments:

Holly Newman said...

Happy Birthday, lovely flowers!

Unknown said...

Beautiful flowers and an even more beautiful friend! Thank you for posting!