Our neighbourhood in North Portland (University Park) is a delight to the eyes and nose. It's simply bursting with indescribably beautiful flora: trees (majestic, warty, delicate and fruit-bearing - our neighbours have Italian plums which shade our yard and we've benefited thereby with so much fruit), shrubs/bushes, grasses, vegetables (tomatoes and pumpkins everywhere - and, yes, I know they're actually fruits) and, of course, flowers - especially sunflowers. But, since the summer is rapidly ending, the sunflowers are suffering from advanced macrocephaly. They remind me of triffids, in fact (Lesha agrees that they're quite creepy - with their enormous expressionless faces). Still, I wish I could bear their burden for them.
'Sunflower' Low
That sunflowers are so suggestive of human figures makes them so sad, especially as they start to wilt and sag (under the weight of their enormous heads). Egon Schiele really captured the human quality of sunflowers in his works. He makes them so sympathetic, but so tragic.
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