Summer's Flower Sunflower Oil Painting

Summer’s Flower is a Creative Realism fine art oil painting from a garden of sunflowers I planted for inspiration. I ended up with fewer images than I thought I would but three or four were pretty good and you will see them in the future.

The background to the garden you see is a black berry patch that has been there on the farm as long as I can remember. I’ve been picking berries out of it since I was a small child. Mom would take a bunch of black berries and cook them in water and sugar alongside a batch of biscuits for one of the greatest meals ever. It was a lot of picking but well worth the effort for such a southern delight. We would usually pick about 30 gallons of black berries a year so get the picture; I picked a lot of berries!

The garden is also one of the gardens we grew vegetables in growing up. I sure don’t miss pulling weeds! The canned vegetables in the winter were fabulous though. Vegetable soup in the winter will always take away the chill for a few moments.

We had many good times growing up on the old farm.  Dad actually made me dig a terrace above the garden to slow water coming off the hill. There is nothing like digging in cherty ground for a day’s work.

My brother and I actually built a little log cabin play house right above this garden as well. We used old pine slabs for a roof and didn’t peal the bark off the logs so it didn’t last too many years. Now a building stands in its place that my dad and I went to Gilstrap’s sawmill and got poplar lumber for its construction.

Whether or not there was a large group of people gathered in the field below our home to play baseball or softball there was always something exciting going on around home as a child. I learned a lot in all the pickup basketball, baseball and football games growing up to be an adult. Sadly people rarely get together for such fun now days as it seems to be a constant rush without time for real life the old fashioned way. I wouldn’t take anything for all those days climbing in the barns and trees around home. The fishing ponds! Catfish! A few bass! And bream to content a young boys heart!

Thank you for stopping by Boyd Greene Fine Art for a browse.