Whenever I see a sunflower I always think of the hot, humid, hazy days of summer. These flowers just mean summer to me. Perhaps it’s because Sunflowers are one of the first flowers I can remember liking as a child. In fact I do believe that sunflowers were one of the first flowers I ever planted too!

I can remember a hot late May or early June day up at the cottage. As my parents worked on their garden a family friend and I planted sunflower seeds. I was perhaps 7 years old at the time. Later in the year someone took a picture of me standing by the 10 or 11 foot tall row of sunflowers. It’s quite funny because I was only about four feet tall at the time and they just towered over me. Their stalks were so think that I probably could have climbed up one of the sunflowers.

Were sunflowers one of your favorite flowers as a child?

I took this photo when the sun was directly behind the sunflower. I like how bright sunlight makes the edges of the petals seems translucent.