Sunflowers


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Posted in General by Helen Lowe

Mar 17 2012

It’s Saturday—and the early mellowly warm, mild days of autumn, or perhaps Indian Summer, so what better way to celebrate than with sunflowers?

Enjoy!

Comments

Paul (@princejvstin):

I always think of the Van Gogh Doctor Who episode when I hear the word “Sunflowers” now. 🙂

March 17, 2012 at 09:58
- Paul (@princejvstin):
  
  And a bit of color, where its still winter here (although amazingly warm today) is welcome!
  
  March 17, 2012 at 09:59
  - Helen Lowe:
    
    The colours here are wonderful at present, mainly that burnish to the day that you get when it’s summer’s end but not quite fully autumnal yet … Whereas I know from the time I spent in Sweden that Northern Hemisphere March is one of those interminable months when the weather is still very cold, the sky and earth both hard as iron—and yet the suggestion of spring is always there, the most tantalizing of suggestions, hiding just around the seasonal corner …
    
    March 17, 2012 at 18:15
- Helen Lowe:
  
  Unfortunately I haven’t seen that ep yet, or any of the latest incarnation—-‘mad (frequently!), bad (sometimes!) & dangerous to know (always!)’—Doctor seasons yet. I fear this may be a FSF fail on my part!
  
  March 17, 2012 at 18:12
Wen Baragrey:

Oh, they’re gorgeous 😀 I love sunflowers. It’s hard to believe summer is almost over already.

March 17, 2012 at 10:37
- Helen Lowe:
  
  I love sunflowers, too, Wen. And although we still have warm days here, the warmth is mellow rather than intense, the evenings cool and the early morning crisp as the colours increasingly turn—I love autumn but these subtle changes definitely tell us that ‘winter is coming.’
  
  March 17, 2012 at 18:18
June Young:

I like sunflowers, and they are easy to grow if the area you are living in has good sun and not much wind.

March 17, 2012 at 14:38
- Helen Lowe:
  
  These are not from my garden this time, June, although I have grown them before. And every other year or so I love to see the ‘fields of gold’ around Totara, outside Oamaru. And then makes me want to re-read Siobhan Harvey’s “Van Gogh in Aotearoa” here.
  
  March 17, 2012 at 18:28