Summer Painting #7

Here is painting #7. One of my favorite flowers to grow and I am surprised I don’t have any here in my garden. I used to plant seeds every year when I lived in NJ and I would watch the goldfinches hang upside down to pull the yummy seeds out. I found one of those photos and there were bees and goldfinches in my sunflowers..

We were up in NJ recently to visit family and we drove by my former house up there. I was dismayed to see that it wasn’t cared for and the once beautiful majestic maple out in front of the house was a dried up dead skeleton. Equally dismaying was our much loved Colorado Blue Spruce had been cut down. My kids used to play under that tree. That tree was home to many creatures. How terribly sad.

My lilacs have also been cut down. Seriously? They hated lilacs?

When you sells a family home, you hope that the next family moving in would treat it with love and take care of it. We thought that we had sold it to people who would love it and the trees. The lilacs smelled so pretty in the Spring.

That house was brand new when we moved into it. I even picked where I wanted it on the property so that the trees could stay.

Ah, such is life.

This sunflower is reminiscent of the ones from that house. Another small 4×4 painting on wood panel.