In my quest to get visiting grandkids to do something other than screen time I located a sunflower maze at Goldpetal Farms in St. Mary’s County. “We should do this,” I suggested, and luckily, they seemed willing enough. Later, I was rewarded by GD #1 saying, “Mazes are FUN!” when we were actually there walking the path under the towering flowers. Three was a good number to do the maze thing because every time we got to a branch of the maze, there was someone to break the tie if we couldn’t get consensus on which way to go. Yes, it was fun, but we sure were running into a lot of dead ends! And we drank up all the iced tea I had prepared! And it was HOT! We prided ourselves on not using the map, but it seemed to me we kept stumbling on places that we had been before. I spotted three teenagers clutching a crumpled bit of paper. Could they be using the map? I couldn’t tell, but the next time I had to break the tie about what direction to go I pointed to the way I had seen the teens go. Soon after, we made it out! At the exit they had a painting station so you could do a watercolor after your sunflower immersion experience. Later, back home, I was able to also complete a sunflower oil painting of GD #3.
