Today is my 60th birthday. I gasp when I see that. Sixty years is a long time! I share my birthday with two sisters I met right here, connecting through blogging, Linda Mitchell and Julieanne Harmatz. Happy Birthday to you, too!
This week’s photo is a fun one. I found it on Instagram, posted by Trina Bartel, another fellow blogger. She tells me it was taken at Bergsbaken Farms in Wisconsin.
(The photo) is from a sunflower farm in a tiny town in Cecil, WI (NE WI). It’s a huge field of sunflowers that you can visit for a suggested donation of 2 dollars each. There are props (like the bike) that you can take photos with. The bike is on the edge of a huge sunflower field. It is at the entrance. This sunflower farm is about 3-4 years old. I believe it was created as a way to generate money for a struggling family farm.
Trina Bartel (click to follow on Instagram)
A bouquet of sunflowers
Margaret Simon, draft
in a basket just for you
sing “Happy Birthday!”
Please join me today by writing a small poem in the comments. Try to respond to others with encouraging words. Thanks for being here. I love you all!
Reflections on the Teche 
Happy, happy Birthday, Margaret! I hope your day is filled with all things wonderful. I’ve been quite entranced by sunflowers this summer and have been trying to write a post about them–not sure it’s going anywhere! Kind of like this lovely bike. Here’s my quick response:
Transformed
Bike yearns
imagines gliding over all
kinds of terrain, fleet and free
everyday an adventure
Thanks. I love how you transformed this bike imagining it taking off on new adventures.
I like that the bike yearns!
A bike with a mind of its own!
Happy Birthday, Margaret! I’m on vacation this week and wasn’t going to write today. But I’ve come to look forward to these Wednesday opportunities, and the sunflowers pulled me right in. So, with apologies to William Carlos Williams:
so much depends
on a blue bicycle
adorned with yellow sunflowers
on a perfect pink sky morning
This is perfect.
Rose–I also considered responding a la William Carlos Williams. Love this, especially that “perfect pink sky morning.”
Oh, this is great! So much does depend….and, I agree. I look forward to Wednesdays for this quick write.
“everyday an adventure” – love this!
I am saying a glorious, sunny HAPPY BIRTHDAY with sunflower (my favorites!) glee and promising myself I will come back later to write a poem!!! Hope your day is as wonderful and productive and full of the beauty of the gifts of the world as you are!
Happy Birthday! I usually don’t look forward to Bdays…but today has been lovely. I really enjoyed being with a few dozen librarians talking about what we do — and we made junk journals together! That was the session I led. Super fun and easy time with scissors, paper and glue. Happy Birthday to Julianne too! I love having birthday twins.
Inner petals
Of sun’s
flower
reflectors
Reflectors
flower
of sun’s
jnner petals
Wonderful reverso!
My Bike: Hoping it Found a Sunflower Basket, too
A long-lost forgotten treasure
from my house to college
stolen, gone…..yet
sweet memories prevail
*The photo instantly took me back to my sophomore year college dorm, a lovely Victorian House in Saratoga Srpings NY where I left mine that looked very similar to the one in this photo (mine was older and had wider tires from the later 1950s) along the side of the house and despite having been registered with the police was never found. In a way I still miss it. We could not have cars so the bike was a great way to get around, unwind, exercise, feel young again. My reaction was instant.
Sorry the image triggered this loss.
Ah but wonderful memories, too!!! So all good. I hope it had a happy life!!!! And now rests with sunflowers. That would be grand.
[…] by Margaret Simon’s blog post yesterday for, THIS PHOTO WANTS TO BE A POEM, on her blog Reflections on the Teche. I substituted a bicycle photo of my own, so do drop by her blog and view the enchanting photo […]
Happy birthday, Margaret. That is a fun poetry prompt! Thank you for the idea: I thought of a poem but not a title….
The Craigslist ad
came out so nice
I decided to keep
Mom’s bike and
ride it myself
The flowers I put
in the basket made
all the difference
and sold me on the idea
of maintaining