My little dino man and I went for a soda run yesterday. It’s been a while since we’ve been on a soda run.  In my family…… a soda run involves a a stop for a drink and then a long slow drive into the country. Where you talk about old relatives that lived here or there and where they are now or who there children are married to.

But we don’t have a ton a relatives where we live. 

So…. played the ABC game with animals (you have to go through the alphabet and think of an animal that starts with that letter.)

And we didn’t drink soda. We drank water. It tasted better anyway.

We drove and drove and ended up in Hillsdale.

And I found these.

I got out of the car and stood and stared at their happy little faces. Sunflowers always seem so happy to me. They follow the sun. What on earth could be more happy than that?  They also symbolize, just by the mere act of blooming, that summer is coming to a close. They remind of August. When I think of this month… these are the colors I think of. I wish it would last longer.  But it never does.

Song: Sunflower Song: The Go Around