Sunflowers and smiles at Buttonwooods Farm in Griswold, Ct.
What is it about Sunflowers that makes us so smiley and happy? In a world full of bad news and upset on a daily basis, and the constant barrage of vapid or divisive media chit-chat we sometimes need to FLEE into our gardens, or garden centers or those wonderful land-trusts and farms offering creative Greening Spirit delight and refreshment.
Sunflowers speaking; “Hello there, Humans! Lighten up!”
I have decided at a time of personal life challenges and change at this time to purposefully include happy “field trips” to places nearby that I have always meant to visit, but had not yet done so. Calling a friend who is always ready for a spur-of-the-moment adventure, we took off to join throngs of smiling people who were doing the same to visit Buttonwoods Farm during this two-week only sunflower festival.
Peekaboo You….Look this way! Down here!
Point and shoot digital cameras, cameras with BIG closeup lenses and busy cell-phone cameras were in everyone’s hands…stop, snap, stop, snap…taking home a sunflower picture if not a bouquet. My friend Margie had her little camera and focused on a happy sunflower being visited by a bee gathering its pollen.
The sun was bright, the path through the acres of Sunflowers was long but upon exiting there was a lovely hill and a big shading tree and cool breezes to stop and view the field from a higher vantage point and rest up before making the return trip…
Cool breezes on the hill up there
People, young, old, of all shapes and sizes made the journey through the Sunflowers to be greeted and blessed by all that good cheer.
Never too old to greet the Sunflowers!
On the way out, we met a real Sunflower Smiley Face!
After our trek through the Sunflower Fields…back to my own neighborhood for Ice Cream across the way, sitting in the shade and enjoying every single lick on a warm day.
I didn’t bring a bouquet home with me from Buttonwoods.. I knew there were, on a much smaller scale, but still smiling, emergent sunflowers in my own garden…they are just beginning to open now as will add to the greening spirit joy and delight as I also daily prepare to release this home and venture into a new chapter.
I want to take these smiles with me wherever I go ….. 🙂
My Garden, My Soul
From Christine, The Greening Spirit
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There is always something so magical about the Sunflower.. I got my 4 yr old granddaughter to plant the seeds and this week they are now in flower.. :-).. I just Love that whole field that you explored.. 🙂 beautiful photo’s
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Yes they are so magical and CHEERFUL! It is so important to share these things with the young ones…my grandsons plant things with my daughter and I that makes me so happy to see them off the techie stuff and hands in the dirt! Picking green beans from their vines in my garden for supper was a first for my 10 year old granddaughter visiting this week… !
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How wonderful .. my granddaughter just loves to pick peas, but she eats more than she collects and that goes for the Raspberries too 🙂
Sorry I didn’t reply earlier and thank you so much for all of your replies.. it seems my Gravatar I use to connect to my Gardening Blog does not relay back replies in my notification column. So I will have to use this for both
Wishing you a Perfect week.
Sue
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