It’s Summer, and a very nice day here in the South. Earlier this morning, our front porch digital thermometer said it was 70.0 F. Yes, it really does talk. It’s a “voice” thermometer as well as digital in visual output.<\/p>\n
I don’t have air humitity readings, but my human ability puts in in 50% or a bit less, as my favorite temp. is 70 F. and this morning was “perfect”. Blue sky, light breeze, fine smelling and feeling air … and Sunflowers are opening their yellow heads that are bound to be packed with Black Oil Sunflower Seeds later in the Summer.<\/p>\n
We have quite a few in the front of the house, on either side of the entry porch steps. Bird seed sunflowers they are. We had them there last year, not planned, but planted via birds eating above. So this year, some of from that, but also from me thowing seed a bit.<\/p>\n
Out back we have a huge mound of Sunflower plants growing around the big Cedar feeder we have. I filled it up over a month ago, and spilled alot of seed in the process. I wasn’t careful … and my carelessness resulted in something potentially nice … I saw the plants when they sprouted, and my husband hadn’t mowed for awhile. I asked him not to mow them down and he didn’t. They are just beginning to form heads for flowers … so they are a few weeks behind the plants in the front.<\/p>\n
Sunflowers have become Summer to me the last few years. Funny thing since I didn’t like them five years ago for sure, and before that I know that I REALLY didn’t like them. Now, I dream of when I have large property and have a field filled with Sunflowers. Nearby would be a large field of wildflowers as well. On the hill behind that you might catch view of our cows, maybe a pen or two or more … with chickens growing up on bugs, and grass … but I digress.<\/p>\n
I’ll be taking pictures by the Sunflowers with my daughter in the next few weeks. We did the first Annual Sunflower Portrait Session last June. It was a one-time event back then, but not that we didn’t plan a similar event to happen the next year, and every year after that. But I surely hadn’t understood how much Sunflowers and my daughter go together, until afterwards. She looks great in Sunflowers. They suit her well. She likes them too. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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