In my youth i was lucky to have read “Lust for life”, it was one of those novels which i started re-reading the very moment i finished reading it. This cycle went on for about a year till i could remember what was written in which page, it was the same with “Hundred years of Solitude” & also with “The Equal Music”. Anyway coming back to the story of Vincent Van Gogh, in the Lust for Life, since one had read it during the pre-internet age & one had only one’s imagination to visualise how those Sunflowers he was painting looked like. Years went by in one dreaming about Sunflower fields. About a decade back i had the good fortune of visiting a farm in Kheda, near Baroda That was the first time i saw a Sun flower field & i was stunned by its beauty. Since then i’ve been wanting to grow Sunflowers & never got down to it.
I tried my luck this year
The amount of bees that are buzzing around tirelessly is amazing, however there are no butterflies ‘though. In a weeks time all the yellow petals will dry & fall off & all these shades of yellow on our fields will be gone….. then the birds will come to eat the sunflower seeds & unfortunately i will have to be play hooligan & shoo them away !!
river side farm 
Lovelyyyyyyyy
Thanx ujj 🙂
Gorgeous. I grew masses of huge sunflowers last summer, will again this one. Bees wallowed in the golden pollen. I hope the birds would eat the seeds, but the rain came and made them damp and mouldy….. let the birds feast on your seeds!
No suzanne……i didn’t let the birds have them 😦
Hi …heard about your farm from Mr. Michael and went through your blogs as well.
Would it be possible to come visit for a weekend?
We are looking for a plot of land to start something similar.
Harish
You’ll then appreciate this (at our Noida house): http://salilchaturvedi.blogspot.in/2010/06/bright-yellow.html
yes, yes i like them both 🙂
This is beautiful Arjun…healing indeed..much needed in times we are living in. Its been months when I was at your farm, but even today when I look at the pictures, I can see myself breathing in fresh air…my eyes closed…letting go of everything which one hold too tight ..otherwise..
thanks rashmi