Late Bloomer
by Carla Parris
Title
Late Bloomer
Artist
Carla Parris
Medium
Photograph - Digital Photograph
Description
LATE BLOOMER by Carla Parris is a photograph of a single late-blooming stalk of French sunflowers in the middle of a field of spent blooms.
I have long wanted to visit Provence when the lavender and sunflowers are blooming. The lavender blooms first, and their respective seasons vary from year to year, depending on the weather, but the two usually overlap their blooming during late July and early August.
Last year, my husband took me to France to celebrate one of those ending-in-a-zero birthdays. We had hoped to do the trip in late July or early August, but were unable to go until September. (Of course this was a very minor matter. I am a happy girl any time I can get my feet on French soil!!) However, by then the lavender was long gone, and the sunflowers had pretty much come and gone, as well, but I kept my eyes open just in case, and was delighted when we came upon this late blooming single stalk of sunflowers amidst a field of others which had obviously long since passed their glory.
Because Van Gogh is particularly famous for his paintings of sunflowers, it was fitting that this patch of sunflowers was in St. Remy, inside the grounds of the asylum where the artist voluntarily spent some of his life. The building and its gardens are now open to the public and house a display of reproductions of many of his paintings.
For me, this late bloomer was right on time!
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August 16th, 2014
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