Sunflowers

I saved most of the best sunflower pictures I took this summer/fall, and I've been meaning to do this post for a while.
  Although sunflowers aren't my top favourite flower, they're probably a close second.  They have many different colour patterns and they are so bright and cheerful-looking, it's hard not to enjoy them.  (And this year a few of 

them actually dried out to the point where I was able to harvest the seeds off of them.  I think that was the first time we've had our own home-grown sunflower seeds, and the ones that didn't quite ripen will be getting hung out for the birds during the winter.)
   Anyway, here are those photos.

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