cowslips

I was happy to discover these delicate-scented cowslips on yesterday's walk as they are not that common now. My sister and I used to have Sunday excursions in season with our grandparents and parents to pick great bunches of them in the Suffolk countryside. When we got home we didn't put them in vases; our grandmother made them into cowslip wine.

DAYS
What are days for?
Days are where we live.
They come, they wake us
Time and time over.
They are to be happy in:
Where can we live but days?

Ah, solving that question
Brings the priest and the doctor
In their long coats
Running over the fields.

Philip Larkin (1922–1985)

[Darren Juden]

It's nice having memories evoked by certain things. Lovely Hazel :)

[Hazel]

@darrenboyj

I think itt's funny too how suddenly the brain just switches into gear and remembers!

[👑 AnaZad]

Lovely flowers and memories.

[Richard]

lovely shot

[Arthur Loosley]

So nice to see again these wild flowers that I remember from way back when.

[Hazel]

@wordpixman

I'm glad you too remember them, Arthur. I think I remember the scent as much as anything. Ray tells me, from his rambles, that there are lots on Old Winchester Hill and I mean to have a trip to see if I can capture them. (One day when it's not raining or grey!)

[Graham Thresher]

Beautiful capture and I love the soft fade away focus.

[Hazel]

@thresheg

Oh thank you for noticing my PicMonkey 'frost'!

[Lesley]

Beautiful cowslips. I haven't seen any around here yeat but then I haven't been out much lately. David always seems to know where to find them around here. He remembers them from his childhood when he lived on his grandfather's farm in Debenham. I was born and raised in London so have no childhood memories of cowslips!

[Gerry]

a very beautiful photo Hazel a lovely light yellow colour with white, nice spring colours

[Beryl Lloyd]

Beautiful cowslips - I have a small clump in my garden brought from my late mum's garden -- so many fond memories !!

[Elisabeth Sæter]

Lovely shot!

[Hazel]

@beryl

How lovely to have those cowslips from your mum's garden. I think they are just the sort of simple and unpretentious flowers to carry fond memories.

[Hazel]

@lellie

My maternal grandmother who made the wine lived in Claydon (our family did too for the first 5 years of my life) so it would have been around the lanes and villages nearby that we gathered the cowslips.

[Hazel A]

Lovely shot and memories. Can't remember the last time I saw cowslips. When(or if) the weather improves I will have to go out and look for some

[Julie Duncan]

Very evocative, and I like the poem, too!

[Ness Santvoort]

Oh, lovely, I haven't seen cowslips for many years, not sure if we have them here, thank you so much for sharing them with 365ers.

[Pyrrhula]

A beautiful pic. to a wonderful poem

[Hazel]

@ness50

Vanessa you're welcome. I was a bit overwhelmed to see them!

[Christine]

Lovely shot and poem