Sunflowers are everywhere in this part of France, a
wonderful show of bright yellow that heralds the long summer days and has
beekeepers rubbing their hands in anticipation of a bumper harvest of the
well-known granular honey. Without wishing to dampen the mood too much,
sunflowers are also a vivid reminder of the current situation in Ukraine as
they are the country’s national flower. The sunflower, soniashnyk in Ukrainian, is also the symbol of the resistance
movement against the invasion by Russia.
