Google Search: Sunflowers

 

Having been brought up in the sixties and seventies I think the hippie outlook on life served me well.
I can still make great Daisy Chains, Pom Poms and Cats' Cradles.
I was always encouraged to read and constantly had my nose in a book. Enid Blyton taught me not to be afraid of spiders with her stories of Aaron the spider who was really a prince. I have infuriated my daughters over the years by my insistence that that huge hairy eight-legged specimen in the bath was a prince trapped in a spider's body. They learned from an early age how to use a pint glass and a piece of card to let the arachnid out of the window. Same with bees and wasps,' Buzz, buzz, buzz busy bee, busy bee, buzz if you like but don't sting me.' (I made that one up) Walking around the park would have me singing 'There once was an ugly duckling....' although I certainly didn't read that book to my own children repeatedly, like my mum did to me (I still bear a grudge)
As a child I played outside all day long. Imaginary friends would surround me in the woods along with fairies and elves. Trees would have faces to match their personalities, my imagination was that good.
As I grew older, I became enchanted by the Greek myths. I still love them to this day. A recent guilty pleasure was discovering the film Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief which I loved.

So why the picture of sunflowers? Well, my hippie childhood taught me to see the stories behind the scenes; a gift that the young today may never learn with Google giving them black, white, and sometimes grey, answers to all their questions.

Google: Sunflower; (Well, take a look)
The first entry for Sunflower is a song by Post Malone and Swae Lee, released in 2018. Related searches include sunflower seeds, tattoos, wallpaper, and clipart.

My Sunflower Description:
Sunflowers: The beautiful sunflower takes her name from Clytie, a water nymph who turns into a sunflower after grieving the loss of her beloved Apollo. The mythological symbolism is that Clytie (in her form as a sunflower) is always facing the sun looking for Apollo's chariot to return that they might rekindle their love.

The sunflower grows tall and moves to face the life-giving rays of the sun and is often used as the symbol of spiritual faith and worship.

A vase full of sunflowers brings sunshine to the gloomiest of days.
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PS. I while ago I put a jumper in the wrong wash and it came out oversized and baggy, but still wearable. I told my daughters it was like a Sloppy Joe...
They just would not believe that my (newly styled) jumper was once a very fashionable item and not, for some inexplicable reason, a jumper named after a burger.