I’ve been very busy this week with a lot of unplanned things going on. Mostly I’ve spent my days helping clean out the apartment of one of my aunts. By the time I got home every day I was too tired to do much else. I was able to work on the Vacation Snowflake 2020 pattern, though I didn’t finish it until this morning. But it’s done! If you would like it, please email me and I’ll send it to you.
Busy or not, I have been taking time every morning to go out to see the dawn. It is lovely that time of day, mostly quiet except for the sounds of birds and insects. For all that it is awful about the fires in the western states, all the smoke in the sky from them makes for beautiful sunrises.
September is time for the hummingbirds to start their migrations to the south. We’ve had at least five or six of them around our place this year. I only started putting out feeders last year, so I’m very excited to see them around. They start coming to the feeders before sunrise and before most of the other birds start getting around. Then they come back off and on all day. They are so fun to watch, they keep me distracted. My cheap entertainment LOL.
Down the road from us, there is a place called Kansas Maze. Some years they do a corn maze and a pumpkin patch. This year they are doing a Sunflower patch. They even have props and a raised platform to give you cute picture opportunities. They were supposed to have a Sunflower Market craft show a couple of weeks ago but we had so much rain the night before/morning of, they had to postpone until this last weekend. Unfortunately, it did cost them several vendors but they still had enough to make it a worthwhile trip. I had planned to go to it with my sister, but with the date change that didn’t work out so I went by myself. I’m glad I did.
This sunflower is from our yard. It’s much smaller than the sunflowers they are raising as a crop at Kansas Maze. We have quite a few, though nothing compared to the Maze.
Farmers around here are harvesting their corn right now. Between all the dust they are raising doing that and the smoke in the air, my allergies are giving me fits! Thank goodness for allergy mediation! The only problem with them is if I sit down very long I get sleepy. Good thing I haven’t had time to sit still very long. I have a long list of things to do, and that doesn’t count the tatting I have planned.
Has your summer been going as planned?
“Wherever life plants you, bloom with Grace.” Old French proverb
I have a sunflower blooming too, though we are in Spring rather than Fall.
Haha! Does summer ever go as planned? There are times I think that nothing goes as planned! Thanks for the pictures of the sunflowers. They are so cheerful! We see odd ones planted here and there, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen a luxurious field of sunflowers in Illinois. I would love to have a copy of your pattern! It may end up in the binder I have filled with your patterns until I finish my button binge!
I love your new snowflake, I have started your cross yestrerday and its great pattern,
Beautiful sunrise, love the colours, certainly different colours to what we have.
Beautiful sunflowers,