Meowvelous Monday haiku and sunflowers for you!
Meowvelous Monday Haiku
It’s no surprise that we love sunflowers. After all, it’s included as part of the Chirpy Cats brand with me, your social facilitator Mr. Jack as the mascot. (Good choice humans!) And that’s because every year in late Summer we look forward to these audacious late bloomers that light up the Chirpy Cats garden. Sunflowers never fail to delight with their optimism and their bold sunny cheery faces that seem to shout “hello!” each time you pounce by.
But there’s something else that makes these protagonists of the Chirpy Cats garden so welcome.
- Giant sunflowers form the perfect curtain of shade around the catio so us cats have plenty of shaded spots.
- Bees, birds, and butterflies love them so we get replays of Nature TV on loop all day long.
- Sunflowers are also on the list of cat-friendly plants which are non-toxic to cats so we don’t have to worry if my pal Jimmy the plant snacker decides to use his thumbs to grab a piece!
- They tolerate periods of drought and like true beauty queens, always manage to look good in all conditions!
- Love them or hate them, but our bandit friends, the squirrels go nuts for them!
What have we been up to? Mostly trying to stay cool in this heat wave. Can you believe we have not had any significant amount of rain for weeks and we even had water restrictions? Don’t worry, we still had our watering hole, that didn’t dry up! And despite all this see how lovely my cheery friends have been holding up.
I hope my sunflower Haiku fills you with optimism and leaves you with a cheery glow to help you deal with this week’s challenges you may face!
Come inside my lair
I have plenty of secrets
One or two I can share
Hello busy bee
Your pollen dance delights me
A ring of sunshine
Will the rain come soon?
When water flows through your veins
Senses awaken
Cheery faces kiss
The southern skies of Summer
Daylight forever
Pitter patter paws
On daytime tunnel patrol
The Meadowlark sings
Are you enjoying your Summer days? Or are you looking forward to ‘Leaf Fall’?
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We have a lot of ‘volunteer’ sunflowers round our bird feeders, we just left then to grow big, and they sure are pretty now. We had over an inch if pouring rain earlier today…hooray, we needed it, (SW Michigan). The chickadees are already raiding them…the squirrels, not so much…Dalton takes care of them…MOL!
Love your Haiku’s!
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Sounds like you’re also in that heat wave! And it’s only a matter of time before the squirrels come to raid the treasure!
Great haikus. Sun flowers always make us smile.
Y’all sure look pretty darn cool to me and those sunflowers sure are pretty!
Wonderful haikus! We were having so much rain, I was wishing I could share it with those of you not getting any. Just doesn’t seem right! I love all your sunflowers and it’s great to know they’re nontoxic. Cute pictures!
Thank you! It’s raining somewhat but not enough. Humidity is stifling!
Great photos and nice haikus.
Thank you! 🙂
yellow burst oh sun
sun flowerz in de gardin
peepulz eat ther seedz
dry roasted ore knot
in de shell N sum timez out
they make a grate snack
N joy yur time jack
happee timez in yur catio
hope ewe get rain soon
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Oh tabbies guys we so enjoy it when you leave Haiku here. We love it 😸❤️😽
oopz….we forgetted ta send wavez ta everee one else ~~~~
HI ~~~~~~~ 🙂 ♥
I had no idea about most of these sunflower facts. Gorgeous AND functional..
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Thank you, glad you like 🙂
simply delightful and those “cheesecake” poses…OMC!! I am swooning!
Heh heh Mr. Jack has that effect on the ladies MOL
Wonderful haikus, as always! I love that water drop shot in the leaf. We had a drought here and know all about water restrictions. Hope you get some rain soon!
Mom and I luv all your Haikus, Chirpies! And the tummy to the sky photo is a sunflower in our eyes! The squirrelygig planted a sunflower last year that grew great big and tall in Mom’s flower bed. I’m still waiting to see if one will sprout this year. Hugs and tummy tickles!