Mi Familia

Finally got my family to pose in the flowers. You'd think, since the flowers are in our backyard, we could just pop out and snap a quick shot or two. Oh! If it were that easy!

Heading South

The field is in full bloom, but some of the flowers are starting to start their

gradual decline towards ugly.

If you want a sea of yellow, this is as good as this year will get.

It's just too bad we don't have the gorgeous skies to go with it.

Most of the flowers still look pretty good, but as the heads fill out with seed,

they become heavy and they appear as if they are looking at their toes.

(Or their neighbor's toes.)

Many are still lookin' good.

A couple from my phone...

It's been a rather busy day and I only had my phone with me.

I zipped past the field and snapped a couple of shots.

You can see that we still have those cloudy skies that are threatening rain...again.

The sunflowers have filled in nicely. I'm hoping they last through the weekend.
I'm thinking they will.

Prime Time

We thought that Wednesday (today) would be the day when the most sunflowers looked the best. I think we were right. I went out this morning, and other than some clouds and a bit of fog, the field looked great.

Lots of flowers open!

The lighting, however, was not the best.

But it still made for an interesting shot or two.

And those steel colored clouds were a nice backdrop.

But we seem to have developed a real problem in the last few minutes...

IT'S RAINING AGAIN!!!!!

(Glad I got out of there when I did.)

Busy, Busy, Busy!

Happy Monday morning!

A few shots for you, courtesy of farmer Ted.

Another shot just to show you the overall progress of the field.

Ted loves bees. He seems to be bent on getting lots of bee pictures.

A Ferris wheel of bees.

A bee flying in from the north.

A bee flying away south.

Thanks honey! (Har har!)

Shaping Up Nicely

The field is looking pretty good today. Still not at peak bloom, but not bad!

Our "river of molten sunflowers" oozing down the hill is

more beautiful today than yesterday.

The bees are busy pollinating these beauties.

We love the bees and bees love sunflowers. They are so intent on doing their job, they pay no attention to camera lenses (or the people) that are inches away.

I've never been stung by a bee in the sunflowers...ever!

*knocks on wood*

But the bees better watch out! These wheel bugs seem to have a

taste for bees. And they are patiently waiting...

Mud No More!

Just wanted all to know that the ground in the field is firming up nicely. Much less mud to contend with. In fact, you have to really search for the mud. We did have some adventurous girls that found the mud yesterday, but they went WAAAAYYYYYY out in the field to find it.

I'll post more pics later.