Sunflowers

It was a grey rather cold summer day yesterday. I took a long drive to nowhere and passed this field of sunflowers. Notice how they all faced one direction. Must be towards the sun. Reminded me of my days in Poland when during summer it was a common sight to see people walking around holding a whole head or a portion of a huge sunflower while munching the raw seeds from it.

Back in 1970 there was a poignant and touching film called SUNFLOWER with Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni about a desperate woman's search for her missing husband who never returned from the Russian front during World War II. La Loren was simply brilliant in it. I loved that film and always remember it when I see sunflowers.