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Poetry Friday: A Tale of Sunflowers

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A Tale of Sunflowers

 
I’ve been trying to grow sunflowers all summer long. We started them outside from seed, and the birds ate all of the seeds. We bought a few seedlings from the nursery. Within a few days, the deer had reduced them to little stubs. In a last ditch effort to have sunflowers, I grew them from seeds inside and planted about 15 seedlings in a tiny patch. Then I surrounded the patch with a fully enclosed bean trellis.
 
All of my seedlings had buds! And then I woke up one morning and every single one had been nibbled down to stubs again. I guess the deer stuck their heads through the trellis and chomped.
 
In the last week, a couple more buds have appeared, and I have a few sad little sunflowers.
 
 
It’s not what I wanted, but it’s something. I’ll take all of the tips for keeping the deer from eating the sunflowers. Encasing them in chicken wire?
 

Haiku of the Week

 
like the sun
grasshopper seeks
sunflower’s face
 
Haiku & Photo © 2023 Marcie Flinchum Atkins
 
Photo Taken: July 29, 2023 at Burnside Farms
Haiku Written: September 5, 2023
 

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What I’m Reading

 
 
by Wendy Williams
 
Definitely not a poetry book, but a fascinating nonfiction book! I’m listening to this one on audio.
 

What I’m Noticing (or Eating)

 
Our very own Poetry Friday pal, Rose Capelli, came to my neck of the woods. We met last Friday night for Persian food and the only picture I got was of this delicious saffron ice cream. It was divine (and not too sweet)! With apologies that we didn’t get a picture together. 

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