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by John Cole|  August 12, 20198:56 pm| 22 Comments

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I’ve been slacking on the posting. Here’s a picture of my sunflowers taken by Tammy from the other side of the fence:

It looks like they are waving hello.

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  1. 1.

    TenguPhule

    August 12, 2019 at 9:00 pm

    It looks like they are waving hello.

    “GREETINGS EARTH CREATURE. HAVE YOU SEEN OUR BOOK ‘TO SERVE MAN’?”

  2. 2.

    rikyrah

    August 12, 2019 at 9:05 pm

    Your flowers are beautiful??

  3. 3.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 12, 2019 at 9:08 pm

    I got a great shot of a sunflower with a bee in it with my fisheye lens a couple of years ago.

  4. 4.

    Gin & Tonic

    August 12, 2019 at 9:19 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: I got a bee in some flower I don’t know the name of in the Sydney Botanic Garden a few years ago (also showing the problem with depth of field at f2.5 – that’s where your fisheye helps.)

  5. 5.

    A Ghost To Most

    August 12, 2019 at 9:20 pm

    John, I’m roughing out the bowl of the spoon. Do you want a flat bowl, or a deeper one?

  6. 6.

    Ohio Mom

    August 12, 2019 at 9:27 pm

    @A Ghost To Most: How’s the finger you sawed through doing?

    Yesterday I saw a monarch fly by, migrating south. Autumn is on its way. Summer is never long enough for me.

  7. 7.

    mrmoshpotato

    August 12, 2019 at 9:27 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: ? Buzzing in a sunflower, caught in the camera eye, I have no heart to lie, I can’t pretend that that is not a fisheye lens?

  8. 8.

    mrmoshpotato

    August 12, 2019 at 9:29 pm

    @Ohio Mom: @A Ghost To Most: Did the spoon’s creation also see some sweat and tears?

  9. 9.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 12, 2019 at 9:33 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: The fisheye also got the dam in back as a nice background(that’s the Supulveda Dam for SoCal locals).

  10. 10.

    Origuy

    August 12, 2019 at 9:49 pm

    I was driving through Yolo County, west of Sacramento, a few weeks ago. I passed fields of sunflowers which were about waist high at the most. Turns out Yolo is one of the biggest producers of sunflower seeds in the world. The short ones are female flowers. They grow a few rows of males, which are taller, but cut them down before harvest.

  11. 11.

    Capri

    August 12, 2019 at 9:50 pm

    John, I was in your neck of the woods last week. Was visiting my daughter in Portsmouth Ohio and we went to WV for dinner. Beautiful country.

  12. 12.

    John Cole

    August 12, 2019 at 10:00 pm

    @A Ghost To Most: This is for stirring so flatter is probably better!

  13. 13.

    John Cole

    August 12, 2019 at 10:00 pm

    @Capri: whereabouts?

  14. 14.

    catclub

    August 12, 2019 at 10:15 pm

    @Ohio Mom:

    Yesterday I saw a monarch fly by

    I’ve seen a horse fly and I’ve seen a house fly, but I’ve never seen an elephant fly!

  15. 15.

    A Ghost To Most

    August 12, 2019 at 10:16 pm

    @Ohio Mom:
    It looks good. It was not deep. I have put down the tree saw, and picked up my Japanese hand saws. They are amazing tools, but also unforgiving.

  16. 16.

    A Ghost To Most

    August 12, 2019 at 10:17 pm

    @John Cole: Roger that.

  17. 17.

    tomtofa

    August 12, 2019 at 10:26 pm

    @A Ghost To Most: Unforgiving in what ways? I like them much more than western saws, but I know little about either from any advanced perspective.

  18. 18.

    Capri

    August 12, 2019 at 10:52 pm

    @John Cole: Went to the Art Museum then the Cellar Door to eat. Not bad but probably could have used a local’s recommendation.

  19. 19.

    John Cole

    August 12, 2019 at 11:20 pm

    @Capri: New Martinsville?

  20. 20.

    Mnemosyne

    August 12, 2019 at 11:22 pm

    @Capri:

    I’ve mentioned before that I read a book written in the 1840s by Frances Trollope called “Domestic Manners of the Americans” that is extremely critical of Americans and really funny.

    During her travels around America, she says that the most beautiful place she had ever seen was Wheeling, which was then part of Virginia. It was kind of startling to see a familiar city pop up in a book that is that old.

  21. 21.

    low-tech cyclist

    August 13, 2019 at 7:53 am

    John: if those sunflowers start saying, “FEED ME,” either get out the chainsaw, or run for the hills!

  22. 22.

    Mary Ellen Sandahl

    August 13, 2019 at 7:43 pm

    @low-tech cyclist: Or if they start loudly rattling their stems.( h/t John Wyndham)

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