Flowers stretched tall

[GoldfishLord]

Flowers stretched tall, swiveling their faces toward the sun. Birds flitted from branch to budding branch. Imagine strolling the grounds in the cool of the day with God, admiring it all, anticipating the harvest, and later,

Source: Growing Slow
Lessons on Un-Hurrying Your Heart from an Accidental Farm Girl
By Jennifer Dukes Lee · 2021

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Is the bold part a metaphor for "flowers grew tall"?

 

[Tarheel]

Yes, they grew. They grew tall.

 

[GoldfishLord]

I wonder about the reason the "the grounds" in "strolling the grounds" is in the plural.
I think that "ground" in that sense is uncountable.

 

[jutfrank]

The verb stretched isn't really a metaphor.

The plural form grounds is used to mean an area of land.

 

[GoldfishLord]

The verb stretched isn't really a metaphor.

I wonder about the reason the verb stretched isn't really a metaphor.