{"id":399,"date":"2008-08-19T00:01:17","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T04:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/photo\/2008\/08\/19\/the-sunflower-a-true-flower-of-summer\/"},"modified":"2012-05-01T02:46:53","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T06:46:53","slug":"the-sunflower-a-true-flower-of-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/photo\/2008\/08\/19\/the-sunflower-a-true-flower-of-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sunflower – a true flower of summer"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Whenever I see a sunflower I always think of the hot, humid, hazy days of summer. These flowers just mean<\/em> summer to me. Perhaps it’s because Sunflowers are one of the first flowers I can remember liking as a child. In fact I do believe that sunflowers were one of the first flowers I ever planted too!<\/p>\n

I can remember a hot late May or early June day up at the cottage. As my parents worked on their garden a family friend and I planted sunflower seeds. I was perhaps 7 years old at the time. Later in the year someone took a picture of me standing by the 10 or 11 foot tall row of sunflowers. It’s quite funny because I was only about four feet tall at the time and they just towered over me. Their stalks were so think that I probably could have climbed up one of the sunflowers.<\/p>\n

Were sunflowers one of your favorite flowers as a child?<\/p>\n

I took this photo when the sun was directly behind the sunflower. I like how bright sunlight makes the edges of the petals seems translucent.<\/p>\n

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