{"id":3495,"date":"2011-08-31T19:53:43","date_gmt":"2011-08-31T23:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/?p=3495"},"modified":"2011-08-31T20:09:43","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T00:09:43","slug":"sunflowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2011\/08\/sunflowers\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunflowers!"},"content":{"rendered":"

So. Not quite apples.\u00a0 But Jenny<\/a> posted pictures from a nearby sunflower field, and since I was feeling pretty guilty about not planting sunflowers for the girls this year we decided to take a drive to go find them.<\/p>\n

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They look like they're whispering secrets.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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I love how they're all in different states.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Note that Anna spotted them first, and said “Look, I see the sunflowers!” but Carolyn and I only saw cornfields and dandelions.\u00a0 Twenty minutes later, after driving all over the area and wondering how on earth we could be missing a giant field of sunflowers, we came back along that stretch of road from the other direction and spotted them.\u00a0 Right where Anna had said they were.<\/p>\n

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The girls were impressed with the number of sunflowers!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Carolyn's taking a "sunflower shower"!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Anna and the sunflower.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Next time I’ll listen to the observant preschooler in the backseat!<\/p>\n

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How big are the sunflowers? So big!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was a bright, sunny afternoon, which made for challenging lighting conditions – I mostly had to decide whether to underexpose the flowers or overexpose the sky – but I think I got a couple of great shots!<\/p>\n

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What a perfect day!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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This bee was busy!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

(At least we bought apples at the farmer’s market this afternoon.\u00a0 Maybe we’ll try our hand at making apple butter tomorrow while we’re stuck in the house for a 4 hour window waiting for the guy to come clean & inspect the furnace.)<\/p>\n

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Flowers in the sunflower field!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So. Not quite apples.\u00a0 But Jenny posted pictures from a nearby sunflower field, and since I was feeling pretty guilty about not planting sunflowers for the girls this year we decided to take a drive to go find them. Note<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-summer-fun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3495"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3507,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3495\/revisions\/3507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}