A poem is the reason why Friday before Memorial Day is National Poppy Day.

Americans wear red poppy flowers on Memorial Day to honor the service members who lost their lives protecting our country.

One of the joys of summer is seeing colourful wildflowers appear all around us, and right now there is a stunning display of one of the most familiar of all our wildflowers - Common poppies in bloom ...

“In Flanders fields the poppies blow / Between the crosses, row on row …. ” So begins “In Flanders Fields,” written in 1915 by John McCrae, a Canadian poet and military physician. “The poem’s powerful ...

CALIFORNIA — Here is this week's "California In Photos." With a stay-at-home public health order in effect across the Golden State to ward off the coronavirus, we encourage readers to dig through your ...