Sunny Sunflowers

Well it is sunflower season once again.
We can find such pretty heads gazing at you surrounded by other flowers
equally as beautiful.
Our family used to love sunflowers and we'd sit eating seeds trying to see
who would grow the longest sunflower beard.
Some may think this is gross but for kids, who do gross things anyway,
this was a lot of fun to do.
No one thought to take pictures however.
hmmmm.
:)

The Flower - Alfred Lord Tennyson

The Flower

Once in a golden hour
I cast to earth a seed.
Up there came a flower,
The people said, a weed.
To and fro they went
Thro’ my garden-bower,
And muttering discontent
Cursed me and my flower.
Then it grew so tall
It wore a crown of light,
But thieves from o’er the wall
Stole the seed by night;
Sow’d it far and wide
By every town and tower,
Till all the people cried,
‘Splendid is the flower.’
Read my little fable:
He that runs may read.
Most can raise the flowers now
For all have got the seed.
And some are pretty enough,
And some are poor indeed;
And now again the people
Call it but a weed.