A beautiful blue flower

This afternoon I had an appointment and had to drive through the countryside. The flax fields are starting to to bloom. This is a delicate ephemeral flower. It blooms only a few days, open when there is light and sun and close when the sun sets. It has a delicate pastel blue colour.

We are the first producers of flax and this flax becomes beautiful linen fabric.

When the flowering ends it becomes all greyish and dry.

It is torn out and let  to dry on the ground before collecting it.

Look at this beautiful tiny blue flower!

Isn’t she beautiful and fragile! Difficult to imagine it will be transformed into fabric. The stem will become the thread.
 

This is the flax after the bloom and dry and the finished fabric. In Summer I love wearing this fabric but people don’t like it because it creases, but I don’t mind.

Today it will be very hot before thunderstorms the following days as usual here!

The sand from Sahara desert is arriving and the smoke from the Canadian fires are reaching our country so difficult to see the sun and no blue sky today but over 30C in some places. Better stay inside!