They’re back, part 2
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The last picture, which featured an ant on an early sunflower plant, Helianthus annuus, may have left you wanting to see the thing that the plant is named for, so here’s a fully open sunflower on the clear morning of April 19.
© 2012 Steven Schwartzman
Portraits of Wildflowers 
Love Sunflowers!
cravesadventure
May 3, 2012 at 1:21 PM
Last year sunflowers ended up being the species I showed the greatest number of times in this blog. You and other readers are welcome to put “sunflower” in the “Search on this site:” box in the upper right if you’d like to go back and see the earlier pictures.
Steve Schwartzman
May 3, 2012 at 2:10 PM
I like these clear, bright colours. Lovely flower and photo!
bentehaarstad
May 3, 2012 at 1:24 PM
You are right:
Clear and bright.
What a sight
At that site:
Sunflower
Power!
Steve Schwartzman
May 3, 2012 at 2:14 PM
I don’t feel itchy with this one. Thanks! 🙂
photosfromtheloonybin
May 3, 2012 at 9:53 PM
Now if I could just find a way not to come home feeling itchy after tramping around in nature for hours….
Steve Schwartzman
May 3, 2012 at 10:02 PM
A plastic bubble perhaps? LOL. You could still take pictures through it. 🙂
photosfromtheloonybin
May 3, 2012 at 10:13 PM
beautiful. i also did a post on this flower http://ntebogengarcher.wordpress.com/?s=Black+eyed+susan&submit=Search.
ntebogeng archer
May 4, 2012 at 9:05 AM
The picture you linked to may well be some type of sunflower also, but it doesn’t seem to be what is usually meant by a black-eyed susan. Compare the picture at:
http://www.wildflower.org/gallery/result.php?id_image=13973
The center of the black-eyed susan has a different shape from the center of a sunflower.
Steve Schwartzman
May 4, 2012 at 9:12 AM
Oh yes i see the difference :-). Do you by any chance know the name of the red flower i did a post on? My flower knowledge is very thin. Thanks
ntebogeng archer
May 4, 2012 at 9:30 AM
Sunflowers and blue skies…the two were made for each other!
dhphotosite
May 4, 2012 at 10:46 AM
And I for both.
Steve Schwartzman
May 4, 2012 at 10:54 AM
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if someone discovered we could harness that sunflower power? That’s a “green energy” I could support with enthusiasm.
The verse is delightful, too. I laughed at the form – more words on top, few at the bottom, just like a blossom tucked at the top of a stem.
shoreacres
May 5, 2012 at 9:35 AM
One way we’re already harnessing that sunflower power is through the plant’s seeds and the oil in them. I wonder if anyone has figured out a way to get energy from the plant’s resin.
As for the verse, maybe I was subconsciously inspired by a poem by Victor Hugo that I read in a college poetry class. Titled Les Djinns, its lines start out at two syllables, gradually increase in length to ten syllables, and then shorten back down to two.
Steve Schwartzman
May 5, 2012 at 11:28 AM