- Posted July 19, 2012 by Team iReport featured this story This
iReport is part of an assignment: Travel photo of the day - The
Very Rare Double-Headed Lady's Slipper Orchid (‘Venus' Shoes’)
In the Wild © Nora de Angelli / www.noraphotos.com - Giant
icebergs floating from Spegazzini and Upsala Glaciers into Lake
Argentino. Southern Patagonia © Nora de Angelli /
www.noraphotos.com - Tibetan Woman and Her Yak at The Scorpion
Lake - Yamdok Yumtso Lake. Tibet, China © Nora de Angelli -
Spring Paradises © Nora de Angelli / www.noraphotos.com - Snow &
Swans. London Hyde Park. UK © Nora de Angelli /
www.noraphotos.com Poppy Fields. Bulgaria. 2012 © Nora de
Angelli/ www.noraphotos.com - stein0726, CNN iReport producer It
is a fascinating flower bearing a long history, myths and
legends: Poppies have long been used as a symbol of sleep,
peace, and death: sleep because of the opium extracted from
them, and death because of the common blood-red color of the red
poppy in particular. In Greek and Roman myths, poppies were