Yellow!

Well, this weekend is as yellow as it gets for this year.

Less yellow than years past, but still not a bad show.

I'll just leave you with a few shots.

Enjoy!

Sunflowers on our local TV station

Check it out:

6 News - Lawrence :: Summer heat takes toll on sunflower crop

Sunflowers Labor Day

The sunflowers are about midway in the blooming, I'd say.

I still think that next weekend is going to be more yellow, overall, but there will be many sunflowers out there that are past their prime.

We have pockets of flowers that are all opened up now, but many yet to come.

The bees are happy.  Every time I see a bee on a sunflower, I think that the camouflage is so perfect, that bees were just designed with sunflowers in mind.

This is still my favorite stage of "opening."  Fresh, new, and not yet chewed on by bugs.

But this isn't bad, either.

Sunflowers, August 31st!

We have a few sunflowers popping open!

Mostly, the field is still very green.

There are still some great photo opportunities as the sunflowers make good shots in all stages of "yellow."

So pretty.

Ooohh!

Ahhhh!

Sunflowers Today, August 26th!

Just giving you an update on the sunflowers as of 9 a.m. this morning.

The field is looking more filled in as the sunflowers fill out...but if you walk out among them, you'll see sunflowers in all stages of growth.  We still have many that are only a few inches tall.

But this is the exciting part!  We have buds!

The majority of the flowers look like this.

These will bloom in about a week (maybe plus a few days).

Holy Sunflower Field, Batman!

These pictures were taken last week when we we had a bunch of rain. 

This week we are back up to 100 degrees.

 I just wanted to demonstrate the gaps that we have in the sunflower field

caused by extenuating circumstances.

Or as Lemony Snicket would say: a series of unfortunate events. 

That's what we get for being optimistic!

Anyway, we have sunflowers.  We also have large holes in the field where we do not have sunflowers.

It is what it is.  I think what we have will bloom in about 2 weeks.

Sunflower Update

Well, Ted has planted sunflowers a total of three times this year. 

That's a record.  One which we hope to never repeat.

The first planting went in the ground and we immediately got a torrential rain that washed lots of the seed out of the ground.  So, Ted replanted.  Then we got zero rain and lots of continued days of over 100 degree weather.  The field you see here is what has managed to come up in these kinds of conditions.

The field is very sparse, but there are some sunflowers out there. 

Earlier this week, when the weather man said we had a 90% chance of rain,

Ted thought he'd give it one last try.  We didn't get a drop of rain! 

Today we got a tiny amount of rain.  It may or may not sprout the seeds still in the ground, but it will give some help to the flowers that have managed to come up.  They are about a foot tall now.

I'll keep you posted on the progress!