Poppies

They are everywhere. The wild flowers were blooming in such incredible profusion, the orange, blue, mauve, red, white... Wow! I've looked out of trains and moving cars and couldn't wait to get among them. So that morning, leaving Marrakech and heading for the Ouirika valley, again I spotted huge patches of red field poppies. I couldn't wait any longer, I saw this huge patch... I said to our driver, 'stop!'. He said, 'arret?' I said 'oui' and no sooner had he stopped, I ran out, crossed a little wooden bridge and there I was, frolicking among the poppies. A few years ago I was among the lavender fields in Provence, France and it has always been my dream to be among red field poppies. Here, my dream just came true.