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#MySundaySnapshot – Red For Remembrance 45/53 (2023)

by RachelSwirl November 5, 2023

Welcome to this week’s #MySundaySnapshot post, which is part of a snap-sharing-blog-linky series that you are very welcome to join. Click here for further information and guidelines upon this linky should you wish to take part. E and I took a stroll through town the other day and came across this beautiful display of poppies. E suggested I take a photograph which I of course did thus decided to share this week as part of #MySundaySnapshot. “Now, when alone, do my thoughts no longer hover Over the mountains, on that northern shore, Resting their wings where heath and fern-leaves cover Thy noble heart forever, ever…

#MySundaySnapshot – Poppy Perfect 47/52 (2022)

by RachelSwirl November 20, 2022

Welcome to this week’s #MySundaySnapshot post, which is part of a snap-sharing-blog-linky series that you are very welcome to join. Click here for further information and guidelines upon this linky should you wish to take part. It was recently remembrance day and it seems this year there has been an abundance of beautiful displays and setups around the area. I spotted these perfectly placed poppies whilst out on a wander from work – there are some photos that just have to be taken and this was one of them. Thanks for reading my #MySundaySnapshot post, I look forward to catching up and sharing your #MySundaySnapshot pictures either through your own…

#MySundayPhoto – Berry Beautiful

by RachelSwirl November 11, 2018

With it being remembrance day, I was originally planning on taking photographs of poppies or something more related to the occasion. However, I decided instead to share a picture which I took a few days back… It was a beautiful autumn day, the sky was a perfect blue, the sun shone bright. Across the yard stood a tree baron of leaves, yet upon its bare branches hung these beautiful, bright red berries. The deep red of the berries against the dark stalks reminded me of the poppies which we wear to symbolise and to remember the fallen soldiers. I stood…