S is for
Sunflowers
one of my favorite flowers.
they're the radio city music hall rockettes of the flower world, the syncronized swimmers of nature, following the sun as it cruises from east to west across the sky. 
i love their big giant heads and the fact that they can grow to be taller than i am.
hearty and easy to grow, they provide beauty and nourishment.
and they make me smile.
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Oooo. Sunflowers. We tried to grow some, but a bunny ate them.
Posted by: claudia | October 18, 2006 at 01:57 PM
LOVE the sunflowers! Takes me back to my honeymoon out in CA - also nice this time of year when the sun seems a bit far away...
Posted by: heather | October 16, 2006 at 10:25 PM
I love sunflowers en masse like that. When I was a child (nine years old) we spent part of a summer traveling through Roumania. One of my memories was of stopping by the side of the road for lunch along side a field of the tallest sunflowers. They must have been 8 or 9 feet tall. Quite impressive especially for a kid- looking up at these "suns" with their flowery faces looking down on me!
Posted by: Manise | October 16, 2006 at 06:48 AM
I LOVE these photos!!!
Posted by: hpny knits | October 15, 2006 at 09:27 PM
Yippee!! I LOVE SUNFLOWERS TOO! This brightened my day! :) Thanks!
Posted by: sunflowerfairy | October 15, 2006 at 06:13 PM
Lovely - I always enjoy it when the Tour de France goes through the sunflower country.
Posted by: Chris | October 15, 2006 at 02:04 PM
Great pix! Sunflowers always make me think of Van Gogh in one of his more cheerful (less melancholy?) moments.
Posted by: Lucia | October 15, 2006 at 10:47 AM
where/when did u take those pics? abs. gorgeous.
Posted by: cyn | October 14, 2006 at 05:48 PM
Those are lovely pictures!
Posted by: Jenn C. | October 13, 2006 at 08:35 PM
This post makes me smile! Beautiful ;)
Posted by: Lolly | October 13, 2006 at 05:24 PM
High kickers, indeed! France does such a good job of raising them en masse.
Posted by: Laurie | October 13, 2006 at 04:44 PM
Sunflowers are such happy flowers. The seeds are yummy too.
Posted by: Kat | October 13, 2006 at 02:53 PM
Love sunflowers, your pics today are awesome! With peace in the house & Rhinebeck approaching, are you like, in a GREAT mood or what? I'm the only person (I think) that isn't going.
Posted by: Carol | October 13, 2006 at 02:15 PM
oh my word, that bouquet is gorgeous...it literally made me gasp! :)
For the wedding that I was in a couple weeks ago, the bridesmaids carried sunflowers and purple irises just like that...
Posted by: shelby | October 13, 2006 at 01:55 PM
Those sunflowers in the field are beautiful!
Posted by: Carole | October 13, 2006 at 01:54 PM
Aw yeah, who doesn't love a sunflower? Great big fields of them always take my breath away. And the seeds are very tasty. ;-)
That's a beautiful bouquet! Present? :-)
Posted by: Beth S. | October 13, 2006 at 01:29 PM
Plus you can eat their seeds! Sunflowers rock!
Posted by: Kristin | October 13, 2006 at 01:28 PM