A Van Gogh Moment
A touch of Provence!
Sunflowers that are sometimes over 10” in diameter - thats only the center part! Withe petals they are enormous. Fields and fields of them with their heads lifted to the sun thrive just a few feet off highway 287 between Waxahachie and Ennis. No wonder Van Gogh was so intoxicated by them. No other flower puts on such a gigantic show. The stalks are sometimes over
5 feet tall and the flower itself much easily weigh over
2 lbs. Only a brief turn off 287 onto Cooks Road puts you in the “country” with scores of machinery, miles of sunflowers and roads that are lined with old trees that come together in the center. What a wonderful sight!
Saturday, July 4, 2020
Back to the Sunflower Field on Cooks road this morning July 10. I was there 4 days ago and guess what no petals on the sunflowers!!!! All of their heads were bent over madly making seeds I suppose. Vestiges of the petals remained. Only the lighter backs of the sunflowers and a scant few petals made up the lush fields of 4 days ago. Also the big up front bale of hay that I painted a watercolor of yesterday (in the studio) is gone. Bare earth where it was in front of the others in the back. This is a working farm and the bales are not for us artists! There are hungry cows to be fed.
Voila! No hay bale.
