Sunflowers are wonderful on gray days or sunny, but they seem happiest on sunny days. Gardeners in the local community garden plant a lot of sunflowers, probably to keep the birds busy and away from other plants.
I took the second sunflower photo on a gray day when I happened to notice how prettily this lady’s hair was arranged around her face. I haven’t been to my hairdresser for many moons. Although I’m concerned for her and her coworkers, who need to make a living, I’m still too afraid to go in buildings where coronavirus droplets might linger in the air. I’m hoping my hair ends up with a sunflower naturalness — but a scarecrow look seems more likely.
Going deeper into the garden to capture the first photo, I noticed an arbor I hadn’t seen before. All Morning Glories!
In other walks around town, I was drawn to a stark tree skeleton in a quiet swamp and Purple Loosestrife crowding around a footbridge. The Balloon Flower (or Japanese Bellflower) I suddenly started noticing in local yards after studying a painting on a calendar that a friend in Hokkaido sends me every year. I had never zeroed in on those balloon-like buds before.
Next are yellow roses, a bizarre fungus, and good advice on a small, wise stone. The old seafood sign was outside an antique shop. I’m also sharing a picture of produce that the grocery store delivered the other day, and aΒ blueberry-raspberry cake I made for our very quiet 50th anniversary.
The sheep were sent to me by Stuga40, who sees many wonders on her walks in Stockholm, a city that knows the value of nature.
Oh nice. I love sunflowers. They had a lot of cut sunflowers are the farm stand today.
They look so cheerful. And among their many benefits they remove harmful chemicals from the soil.
Stunning!
I’m not a real photographer, but I love taking pictures with the camera in my phone.
Well, they are beautiful!
Thanks for sharing, made me smile!
We need all the smiles we can get these days.
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Happy Anniversary!
Thanks. A re-eally big one!