I was wrangling with the idea of whether to use sunflowers or snowdrops for this post. Snowdrops are my favorite spring flower and sunflowers my favorite flower overall. Because the season for snowdrops has passed, I decided to go with sunflowers instead.
Since I've moved to the Chicago area, I've grown them every year. I especially like the non-yellow varieties, and I've even grown "black" ones (they're really a deep burgundy). I have grown miniature ones, but I love the mammoth size best. This year, I am participating in a sunflower/bee challenge. You can read about it (and join) at https://www.greatsunflower.org/.
However, my love for sunflowers started in childhood over 40 years ago. It sparked a creative piece I wrote a while back, and it eventually was published in an Australian literary journal called Meniscus.
Writing it was one of the most emotionally tolling experiences because I don't like to visit my childhood, and the long process to get it published wasn't much easier. Alas, the editor of the paper saw something in that piece, and it remains my only creative work for which I received more than a token payment.
(It's called "The Garden" and is on the last page--how appropriate): https://www.meniscus.org.au/Vol3_Iss2.pdf
3 comments:
I love sunflowers...so much, I used a photo my daughter took of one for the cover of my first (& probably last) romance novel, Home Again.
DB McNicol, author
A to Z Microfiction: Sandwich
You grow such wonderful sunflowers in such small places. It is quite the Marvel. The story was nice albeit a bit sad.
While I love all yellow flowers, sunflowers are my favorite. The way they follow the Sun all day long, that always stirs something inside me. I'm glad you found someone who could truly appreciate the piece you wrote. That just doesn't happen often enough for writers. Alas...
Anyway, happy to connect with you through the AtoZ.
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