Ah, sunflower, weary of time,
Who countest the steps of the sun,
Seeking after that sweet golden clime…
~William Blake
An errant seed was she left to lie
not by I but unknown circumstance
throughout winter, dark and deep,
and there it was she marked the time
until days lengthened and they warmed.
But who knows the when or how soon of
an ordained and sacred thing which must
come together at an exacting moment in time
to spark a miracle in and of earth’s soil
wherein roots shoot down and a stem
with a pair of leaves rises unto the light.
However that it did as spring rains came.
Up and up advanced the thickening,
woody stem with more and more of the
sunflower’s green, heart-shaped leaves
until one day a bud appeared on top
with frilly green whorls of bracts that
cradled the flower’s golden splendor inside.
Soon the time was right for the bud to
turn and face the sun so that petal by petal
its heart of emerald green could exposed.
And then surrounded by a yellowy halo
the gaudy sunflower reigned on high for days
and days above the garden fair but alas time
that in the end swallows up all things has
bowed her noble head in fading glory.
From the rising of the sun to the place where it sets, the name of the Lord is to be praised. ~Psalm 113:3 ✝
**This is the same sunflower that I’ve be showing as she went from bud to flower and now to fading glory.
The life of this sunflower from a seed through bud, new bloom, brilliant sunflower and now her fading glory was a real “treat,” Natalie! ❤ 🙂
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Thanks missy👍❣
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So beautiful. I love sunflowers and that you shared all it’s stages of growth was so great.
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It has been fun keeping up with it! 😊❤️
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some days I feel like that—a wee bit of fading glory to be sure!
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Oh then that makes two of us and the elder is fading more than a bit‼️😊
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Beautiful. I started liking sunflowers when my neighbor started having some in her garden.
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They’re so easy to start from seed and my birds drop seeds around their feeders and so I have some every year and just love them❣😊
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Beautiful – so bright and cheerful, even though it is starting to fade. And the glory is that it lives on in it’s seeds
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Indeed it is Raewyn‼️😊❤️
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