A cheerful scene. Not autumnal at all. Though I am very fond of that word – autumnal. Sunflowers are not for sissies. And judging by yesterdays comments there are no sissies in our Fellowship. 
Of course flowers would have been enough for a Sunday post.
But the morning light was so beautiful yesterday. Our light source is getting lower in the sky.
Good morning.
It is Sunday here, though this means very little to the farmy animals. Queenie has come down with a nasty dose of conjunctivitis (pink eye) so the lady vet is sending over an antibiotic spray for her eyes which I will collect today. 
I have brought her into the barn so that the direct sunlight does not hurt her eyes while she is being treated. Plus she needs to be separated from Daisy as this is very contagious and if it runs untreated can result in blindness. We are going to have to watch out that Daisy does not get this either. It is spread by flies and flies we certainly have in the summer.
You all have a lovely day.
your friend on the farmy, celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
68 responses to “Sunflowers are not for sissies”
Isn’t amazing how all natural things work together and play on our senses…how when you’re in France the mustard goes with the beets goes with the goat cheese goes with the red wine goes with the bread…and how right now on your farm the sunflowers go with the lowering sun goes with the pink translucence of a pig’s ear goes with the philosophical turn of the cat’s mind… every thing is caught up in a moment and it all fits and works and looks right and beautiful…Love this… (Except for Queenie’s eye. Poor dear. I hope she gets over that misery sooner than soon.)
Gorgeous sunflowers!
I love the low golden autumn light.
I too hope Queenie recovers quickly. Medicating large animals is not for sissies either.
Oh how I love your sunflowers. One year I was able to grow a couple and at one point I was just amazed to look out our kitchen window–do a lot of that–and saw a squirrel standing on our porch railing stretched to the nth degree gripping the sunflower in both paws and nibbling nibbling nibbling the sunflower’s face. I laughed and laughed. Of course I tried to grow them the following year and no luck whatsoever.
Oh that little squirrel, how hilarious, i would have laughed too.. cheeky wee fella.. c
Sunflower oil made in Ukraine, Russia, etc. is heavenly; nothing like it here. Okay, once I, the city mouse, planted sunflower seeds next to my cemented over driveway, and they faced east, and all I could see were their backs! Your photos were exquisite, the pinkish lining of the pig’s ear; heavenly.
Poor Queenie! If it is spread by flies, do you think a fly mask such a Matron puts on Jane would help? (3/5/13 post) I know nothing about cows, but I do hope she is feeling better soon.
Poor Misfit! He tries every year to get Sunflowers to grow & every year, it’s a failure. We think it must be our soil. Your pictures are lovely.
Here’s a question for you – how do you say autumnal, using the word fall?
Poor Queenie – I hope the infection clears up soon 😉
Fortumnal! Ha ha .. actually I looked up the origins of FALL and it was around before Autumn, the pilgrims brought it out to the Americas with them. Then in England Fall feel out of fashion and was supplanted by Autumn but the word Fall hung on in America. Crazy!! c
It’s Elizabethan English, like ‘erb, ‘aint and gotten 😉
‘ove it.. c
Apparently French Canadians uses a lot of old French in their language and get teased by the French because of it 😉
I don’t know if it was a trick of the eye, but when I saw your first photo of the sunflowers, I could SWEAR the flowers and trees were swaying in the breeze, as if watching a motion picture. Prayers for Queenie.
I have to add that many years ago I was traveling in Germany along the Autobahn and came upon an enormous field of sunflowers just at sunset. It gives me goosebumps to write this.
I would LOVE to grow an enormous field of sunflowers, wouldn’t that be just wonderful! c
There are a few old-fashioned remedy for conjunctivitis. Other than to give you a laugh, and the chamomile tea, apple cider vinegar suggestions, I’m not sure how helpful they’ll be… breast milk, the patient’s own urine, salt water, black coffee, Vaseline, lime juice…
You mined gold for this post, sunflowers, long light, contemplative cat, pig’s ears, serene Queenie. Have a great day 🙂
Sadly poor old Queenie is way past the cows urine stage, her eyeball is milky and she is not seeing well out of it, we have a full blown infection.. I am not taking any chances. Daisy would respond to some of these others I am sure but she would stomp me into the ground before i could get to her after the first time. She has a memory like an elephant and is a most unforgiving cow, so I hope that hers does not escalate. c
The piggy photo is a prize-winner! I’m getting ready to plant sunflowers, so it was great to see your giants looking so good.
I had no idea pink eye could lead to blindness. I hope it clears quickly and doesn’t spread. The sunflowers are gorgeous! Some of my favorites. Thought of you this week…my sister has built a chicken coup and is raising chickens now. The kids are excited to visit out there now. 🙂
Such a shame you ca’;t hide a teensy coop under your trees, Miss A would look after them! Good for your sister though.. c
Trust Mad to think of ‘autumnal’ and ‘fall’ ~ I would not have thought of it! But do like the word also. Like sunflowers too: don’t live in a part of Australia where they are much grown, but remember being in Hungary in late summer and being in child-like awe watching them turn their heads with the passage of the day on both sides of so many roads! Poor Queenie: i remember how sore my eyes were in my chikldhood when I got it quite often: and she has so much more eye to smart . . .
Late reading the post today and my eyes are watering from all the caring and sharing !!
Warmest autumn hugs to all the eyes of the farmy !!