TO LACK COLOUR

The sun is hot today. There are clouds in the sky but their cover is light, fickle, fleeting. The shadows are cool, though. Bees fly in senseless patterns in and out of the fields filling the air with their joyous buzzing. The soft, damp soil underfoot in subtle contrast with the leaves, which, rough and velvety, snag at the threads of my sweater as I walk by. The flowers are as tall as I am (or I am as short as they are) and so we stare each other in the face as I pass by, seeing who will be the first to crack a smile (I’m almost always the first to break).

(Middle picture taken by @ashleydiscovers <3) 

Sun, shine, sun.  || pc: @ashleydiscovers

Miss you and miss our misadventures, sunshine friend. | @ashleydiscovers

Every time I scroll past these pictures on my computer I remember this day in vivid detail; the heat, the sound of the bees humming all through the fields, the way the soft soil under my feet was cool and damp from generous irrigation. I remember the way the coarse texture of the flower’s leaves would snag softly at my sleeves when I passed by. I remember Ashley’s eyes, laughing over the tops of the flowers two rows away, both of us spinning in circles in utter bliss. I remember conspiring with Ashley to run away and live in that field, a couple of golden garden gnomes, living large under that big blue sky.  I remember conceding defeat from the sun and ducking down to sit in the dirt, hiding from the heat under a canopy of sunflowers as tall as I was, and I remember noticing that the air seemed thick and golden under that never ending ceiling of yellow petals.

When it finally came time for us to leave we found our way out of the sea of gold and out into the open air, bidding farewell to all the flowers and bees. We walked back to the car, talking and laughing and massaging our aching cheeks, and I remember thinking there will never be a more golden day than this one. 

(photos by @ashleydiscovers​)

My favourite thing about these photos is that at first glance there doesn’t appear to be a person in them at all. | taken by my sunflower field co-frolicker: @ashleydiscovers

@ashleydiscovers dancing with the tallest sunflower in the field.

Summer in winter.  | Photo: @ashleydiscovers edit: @tolackcolour

In the light // The Lumineers

(photo taken by @ashleydiscovers )

Yellow and green, yellow and green, as far as the eye can see.  | photos taken by @ashleydiscovers

All the pretty flowers | @ashleydiscovers

and the songs you sang were made of the sun...

Magic day. 

Drowning in a sea of sunflowers; not a bad way to go, really. 📷: @ashleydiscovers

Ashley is done with finals!!! Hurray for winter breaks filled with adventure and lots of sandwiches from Wailua Bakery💛  | @ashleydiscovers

@ashleydiscovers hiding out in the sunflowers 🌻🌻🌻