Day light savings took me by surprise. I had forgotten that we were going to jump an hour ahead so early this year. At least this means that we’ll have a few weeks more of extra day light than we normally do.
An increase in day light hours got me thinking about the sun. As in sunny days, and how much I’m longing for it to warm up outside so that my plants can begin to come out of dormancy and I can get outside and work in my garden once more.
To brighten my day while I pine for summer days I thought I’d post a lovely sunflower photo today. You can’t help but look at a beautiful sunflower and think of summer. Looking at a sunflower just evokes good memories of hot summer days.
I guess I’ve grown sunflowers since I was a child. We used to grow them at our cottage in our country garden. They were “My” flowers. Now I grow a mix of medium to tall, hybrid and normal, multi and single flowered sunflowers in my front boulevard garden bed. I grow them there so that my neighbors can enjoy them as well. I’m amazed at how many people stop to gaze at them or make a comment about them if they see my husband or I outdoors.
That’s why, to me, the sunflower is a happy flower.
What flower or plant makes you feel the way sunflowers make me feel?
* I’m talking about another sunny yellow flower on my other site today too! Have a peek.
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I have never grown sunflowers but have really enjoyed seeing a patch of them grown in my neighborhood. You have inspired me – I will try some of my own this year. So cheerful!
Jean
I am debating planting some sunflowers this year… It’s been a few years since I have grown any…
I actually remembered to play this week!
I always do that…. leave the wrong link….
Lovely. Can’t beat a sunflower to cheer you up. Just as there is a little optimism that summer is not far away….