I just read ‘Disneyland-size crowds’ creating crisis at poppy bloom in small Southern California town about the tens of thousands of people descending on the little town of Lake Elsinore so they can see the spectacular bloom of poppies this year.
I’m so glad I don’t have to go there, but it does bring back warm memories of poppies in the Bay Area years ago. I was raised there and Andy and I would go every spring to visit my folks. We went then because the hillsides were still green before the summer drought, and they were often dotted with golden poppies.
My mother would tell us ahead of time how the poppies were doing, whether it was a good year for them, and the pictures of the grass and poppies are still vivid in my mind.
I hadn’t thought about them in years, but the memories have just come flooding back.
Have you had any memory triggers lately?
March 18, 2019
I seem to have them on a daily basis! maybe that’s what happens as one gets older? I don’t know.
but I can clear my throat and it suddenly sounds like my Mother!
or Michael can be thinking and somehow his expression reminds me of our father. they’re pleasant sensations for me. a beloved connection to years and years ago!
If we work it right, the older we get the more wonderful memories we have. 😀
Those orange poppies are just so pretty. It seems like just about everything the grands do these days triggers memories for Mom – we think she is just getting old:)
Woos – Lightning, Misty, and Timber
She can’t be as old as Andy and I are. We highly recommend it!
My mom used to grow red poppies and I’ve tried in recent years without success. I can’t see poppies without thinking of her.w
I know how that goes. Precious memories. 🙂
Flowers are beautiful aren’t they.
Coffee is on
Yes, and that photographer took a great picture.
None come to mind right now but I’m sure there have been.
Pretty picture
I learned about Pixabay from one of your posts. Thank you! It’s a gem.
It’s absurd the way the trend-following masses are descending on that poor beleaguered town and causing total havoc. Can they not find some equally photogenic sights outside their front door?
Antirrhinums (or snapdragons) are a memory trigger for me. There used to be loads of them in the front garden of the first house I lived in, so they always bring back memories of that particular house.
Apparently because of all the rains the poppies are having a “superbloom”, which is why so many people want to see it.
I have no idea what in your blog was the trigger was but I suddenly remember my grandmother spreading homemade noodles on her table to dry.
It was probably asking about memories. A flood of others came back for me once I asked the question.
I think I have memory triggers every single day.
I kinda thought everyone must.
But if they don’t, and I do… what does that say about me?
Maybe I need to work on making some future memories so that I’m not always remembering past incidents.
Last one was as I drove past a quick shop/gas station in a part of town I’m not usually in and remembering my sister telling me who she ran into there many years ago and I suddenly was remembering that person and it took me back also 40 years. It was a bittersweet memory.
I wouldn’t worry about it, but I do think building up more warm memories is a healthy thing to do. That’s just me.
I have had a lot of memories during this trip, when the many young backpackers ask me if I’ve ever traveled overseas…