A "Sunny" Welcome For September

"By all these lovely tokens
September days are here,
With summer’s best of weather
And autumn’s best of cheer."~Helen Hunt Jackson

"If I were a flower I would be a 

sunflower. To always follow the sun, 

Turn my back to darkness,
Stand proud, tall and straight even

 with my head full of seeds."

 ~ Pam Stewart

“The new country lay open before me: there were no

 fences in those days, and I could choose my own way 

over the grass uplands, trusting the pony to get me home

 again. Sometimes I followed the sunflower-bordered

 roads. Fuchs told me that the sunflowers were introduced 

into that country by the Mormons; that at the time of the

 persecution when they left Missouri and struck out into 

the wilderness to find a place where they could worship

 God in their own way, the members of the first exploring

 party, crossing the plains to Utah, scattered sunflower 

seeds as they went. The next summer, when the long trains

 of wagons came through with all the women and children, 

they had a sunflower trail to follow. I believe that botanists do

 not confirm Jake's story but, insist that the sunflower was 

native to those plains. Nevertheless, that legend has stuck in

 my mind, and sunflower-bordered roads always seem to 

me the roads to freedom.” 

~Willa Cather

Welcome September,

 welcome Autumn!

Warmly,

Susie Q