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May 18, 2007 | 22 Comments
“Bring me the sunflower crazed with the love of light.” – Eugenio Montale
“The sunflower is a favorite emblem of constancy.” – Thomas Bulfinch
“Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.”
- Jean Paul
Bumblebees have their fill
Red Marigolds and Sunflowers
Grasshopper on a Sunflower
Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men and animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others again are plain, honest and upright, like the broad-faced sunflower and the hollyhock.” – Henry Ward Beecher
Pictures by Jai (Douglas County, Kansas, 1995). Some of these pics look a bit grainy, ‘cos they are scanned non-digital photos. Scanning results in the loss of sharpness and some distortion of colour.
Edited to add: Please also see these sunflower pics taken in India, sent to us by our reader, Anita.
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22 Comments
beautiful pics:)
I knew it !!! I know it had to be Kansas and did some one say Douglas County????? Lawrence??? Any connections to University of Kansas???
Awesome pictures, more so because they are from a place very close to my heart.
Love to see them. Viji
What gorgeous sunflowers! Fabulous pictures!
Gorgeous, just gorgeous!
I love sunflowers.The pictures are awesome! Especially the sea of yellow!!
gorgeous!
Have you noticed that sunflowers don’t always face the sun? I thought I was imagining things till someone else made the same observation!
I like that statement of Jean Paul. Sunflowers are so bright and cheerful. Great pic’s!
Oh, there are few things as giddifying as a field of sunflowers…beautiful!
Oh, lovely photos! I have seen fields of sunflowers in Michigan, but nothing to compare with these! Birds would have a field day
What a blaze of color!
Beautiful pictures.
I think everyone should make it a point to see a field of sunflowers at least once in their lifetime. I took my husband, who had never seen them, to see these. And I just uploaded these pictures for the two of you.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8391346@N04/
Might I add these are sunflower pictures taken a decade after you took yours!
thank you, dear anita. those are wonderful, very clear pictures. – b.
really enjoyed looking at those beautiful sunflowers
faboulous pictures. for a second there i thot it was the sarson ke khet in punjab, till i read kansas!
Oh life, how beautiful it is…
This sunflowers are really nice. I love it, they are my favourite flowers:) In Poland we called it ‘s?onecznik’
i LOVE!!!!!!!!! sunflowers we have them growing in our garden but i havnt seen them in a whole feild like that!!
me again, i always thought sunflowers faced the sun too Sra, but mine didnt i thought they must be just plain strange sunflowers.
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I love sunflowers. My fave!
paz