Harvesting Sunflowers with a little ZEN

 Today over at the BRIGHT OWL Erin has given us a wonderfully exciting zendala to create with.... 

As with most of my mandalas I love to have a story behind the tangles...  
so my story today is about the harvesting of Sunflowers...  it is always a sad thing to see them all cut down... as they have given us such a wonderful summer of views and beauty.... and now they are all down.   The stems and leaves will be chopped up for mulch and the flowers will be chopped up for the chickens for a snack every day during the fall...  they love them... they don't get much... but what they do receive they LOVE...  

 I wanted a place to preserve this little story... as it is now part of the late summertime around here...  so I made this Zendala into a pocket and then made a tag so I could write a little message on it about the beauty of our sunflowers...  

Behind the sunflowers it is colored a very light lime green which stands for the green pastures that they grow around and behind the leaves a pale blue for the sky...which is visible thru all the plants in the gardens...  
 

Here is a picture of the tag going into the pocket...  it will be in one of my many journals as a memory of the summer time around the farm...  

Going up the side of the page is a vine...  a vine of life that I hope that all plants will live a long life and remember the love they have given to us all... Thank you Sunflowers for all you have given to us.... 

Hope that you have a wonderful day and that you will try this zendala and share it with us...  it is fun...  I think I will create another one too... but I have to clean a little bit before I do the next one... ugh!!!  What we dont do so that we can play... 
Thanks for stopping by for a visit...  

Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie