I know we equate poppies with WWI, but I'm sure those fields are filled with wild hyacinth as well. 

Going over the top.. horrific.. leaders who were only there because they were rich enought to have bought their rank.. they had no idea how to lead men.. you bring this alive, hopelessness of this war.

Superb, as always, AC.

tim 

I know we equate poppies with WWI, but I'm sure those fields are filled with wild hyacinth as well. 

 

Going over the top.. horrific.. leaders who were only there because they were rich enought to have bought their rank.. they had no idea how to lead men.. you bring this alive, hopeless of this war.

 

Superb, as always, AC.

 

tim 

In 2014 there was much fine programming on TV concerning the start of WW1. I believe I saw one first-hand reference that hyacinth were blooming when the battle of the Somme took place. That bit of insight led me to imagine having to see them from the trenches, and of course knowing they are THE great symbol of same-sex love and transformation. (Because in Greek myth, Apollo was tricked into killing his partner Hyacinthus with a discus. The god turned his boy's blood on the soft earth into a blooming flower of spring - the hyacinth we know today.) 

Thanks once again, Tim.