For the first time in my life I have a row of sunflowers towering over my head when I go out to survey my latest garden project. I am in bliss and can't stop smiling as they bob above me stretching towards the sky. The sunflowers make up for the tomatoes that still haven't turned red or the lack of cucumbers and squash that were decimated by the beetles. My new experiment in the largely neglected back 40 was half success and half failure but the sunflowers stood tall through it all and I plan to invite them back next year as I try again to till the soil. Failures not with standing, I love to garden and receive great solace as I water and weed and dig into mulch as I try to enrich my soil and my life. Life is good.
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