Wendy Banks is a proud, 6th generation farmer from Lyndhurst. Wendy's Country Market can be found at 408 Fortune Line Road in the Rideau Lakes Township. To quote Wendy and to summarize how I feel, we are " In the middle of nowhere, and the centre of everything!"
Wendy mailed out small packets of sunflower seeds in the COVID spring of 2020. We planted the three seeds that we received. Chipmunks got two of them but the survivor turned into a giant almost worthy of Jack and the Bean Stalk. A tape measure had it at ten feet tall and it still grew a few inches after that. I put a support tie on the thick stalk to prevent it from being blown over by the Singleton winds.
This painting of sunflower blossoms facing southerly is named after Wendy Banks. I would visit this inspiration again in #2444 "Flippant Sunflowers". Sunflowers are the perfect inspiration during the shortest days and longest nights of the year as well as the darkest days of the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Vincent would have loved to paint those flowers. I know I did. I used a small canvas and broad, rough brush strokes. I used a lot of paint too. I plan to do a series at different stages of growth and even decay. Life is good.
"The sunflower is mine, in a way" said Vincent Van Gogh. I know that he would share though. I almost share my birthday with Vincent except that his was 100 years earlier than mine.
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