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Wild flowers in Poland's Summer Landscape

6/24/2023

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 Every summer I read through Władysław Reymont’s Nobel Prize winning book The Peasants: Summer
and enjoy the descriptions of the landscape. Here is one excerpt:

"All the landscape was given over to an inundation of wild flowers. Along every pathway there reigned a wonderful profusion of soft white and gold and violet hues. 
Field bindweed                                        Cornflower (Wikipedia)                         Forget-me-not

“The larkspur and convolvulus (field bindweed) put their perfumed heads forth from their hiding places in the cornfields; bluebells and cornflowers were seen in every patch, and the hollows where water had been now teemed with forget-me-nots, making the dells look like bits of blue, fallen from the sky.
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Close up of purple vetch                   Buttercup                                          Dandelion

 "There were clumps of vetches without end, buttercups and dandelions innumerable;
Thistle                                                                                      Purple Clover

"and the purple flowers of thistle and clover"
Daisies                                                                                 Chamomile


 "and daisies with chamomiles-and countless others, of which only our Lord knows the names, since they were blooming for Him alone.”

Except for cornflower all images taken by author
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