Floral Friday: A Field of almost spent Sun Flowers

Posted on June 20, 2014 by Irene Waters 19 Writer Memoirist

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“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. It’s what the sunflowers do.”

Helen Keller

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About Irene Waters 19 Writer Memoirist

I began my working career as a reluctant potato peeler whilst waiting to commence my training as a student nurse. On completion I worked mainly in intensive care/coronary care; finishing my hospital career as clinical nurse educator in intensive care. A life changing period as a resort owner/manager on the island of Tanna in Vanuatu was followed by recovery time as a farmer at Bucca Wauka. Having discovered I was no farmer and vowing never again to own an animal bigger than myself I took on the Barrington General Store. Here we also ran a five star restaurant. Working the shop of a day 7am - 6pm followed by the restaurant until late was surprisingly more stressful than Tanna. On the sale we decided to retire and renovate our house with the help of a builder friend. Now believing we knew everything about building we set to constructing our own house. Just finished a coal mine decided to set up in our backyard. Definitely time to retire we moved to Queensland. I had been writing a manuscript for some time. In the desire to complete this I enrolled in a post grad certificate in creative Industries which I completed 2013. I followed this by doing a Master of Arts by research graduating in 2017. Now I live to write and write to live.
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23 Responses to Floral Friday: A Field of almost spent Sun Flowers

  1. IreneDesign2011's avatar irenedesign2011 says:
    June 20, 2014 at 7:06 am

    I love sunflowers and the photos are wonderful 🙂

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  2. Sherri Matthews's avatar Sherri says:
    June 20, 2014 at 8:03 am

    Lovely photos. Sunflowers are one of my favourite, we used to grow them in California and I don’t think anything means summer to me more than they do. Great quote too. Have a great day my friend…I’m signing off now so see you tomorrow 🙂

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  3. MR's avatar M-R says:
    June 20, 2014 at 9:43 am

    If this was a commercial field, at what point do they get … ehrm … used ? I mean, is it once the flowers have disappeared totally and there are only seedheads left ?

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  4. Noelle Granger's avatar Noelle Granger says:
    June 20, 2014 at 10:44 am

    There’s something about sunflowers that’s inherently uplifting – they turn and follow the sun during the day, which is amazing.

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  5. Joanne Sisco's avatar joannesisco says:
    June 20, 2014 at 11:40 am

    Do you remember the book Day of The Triffids about carnivorous plants? It was required reading when I was in high school. At the same time we were reading this book, my father had inadvertantly planted these mutant sunflowers that became significantly bigger than he was expecting. There were HUGE and quite frankly, a little scary … or maybe it was just me from reading about triffids. In my defense, even our dog wouldn’t go out in the backyard.
    That’s just a long way to say, sunflowers still always remind me of triffids. Don’t get too close. They bite. 😉

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  6. Charli Mills's avatar Charli Mills says:
    June 20, 2014 at 2:55 pm

    Sunflowers are one of my favorites and the birds agree!

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  7. Raewyn's Photos's avatar Raewyn's Photos says:
    June 21, 2014 at 7:46 am

    Great photos. 😀

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  8. Hello! I'm Bernice.'s avatar Bernice says:
    June 25, 2014 at 2:46 am

    I love sunflowers!!

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