Sunflowers and Friends

[yourlibrarian]

An overview of the sunflower field.

An example of sunflowers which have tipped over still trying to reach up.



Thought the sunflowers looked like they were kissing.



We saw a number of examples of these purple vines wrapped around the sunflower stalks.



Bee and sunflower



Some geese passing overhead.

Comments

[redbird]

These are great

I especially like the pictures of the sunflowers with the blue-flowered vines around them.

[yourlibrarian]

It was a nice contrast!

[a_natural_beauty]

What lovely photos! I've seen those purple vine like flowers before, I just cannot recall the name of them.
Sunflowers are my favorite flower ;-)

[yourlibrarian]

Then a good post for you 🙂 I don't think I've seen those purple ones around except in that field, but it may have to do with a lack of places for vines to hang onto around our apartment.

[a_natural_beauty]

I will try to find out the name of them ~

[adafrog]

How pretty.

[yourlibrarian]

🙂

[trainerlyra]

Thank you for sharing!! Sunflowers are my favorite flower, this made me very happy. Those blue flower vines look maybe like Morning Glories? They're very pretty as well!

[yourlibrarian]

Aw, glad they fit the bill!

[shirebound]

Three cheers for happy bees.

[yourlibrarian]

Hip hip!

[pauraque]

Pretty. I can hear the geese in the last picture. :)

[yourlibrarian]

Haha, yes, quiet they are not!

[scintilla10]

Ah, so pretty! Love that first photo where the sunflower fields seem to stretch on over the horizon into infinity.

[yourlibrarian]

Oh I do too -- I love seeing that sea of yellow 😊

[full_metal_ox]

Oh I do too -- I love seeing that sea of yellow 😊

As did the late amateur songwriter Tiel Faulkner:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htaX2P3DE7U

[apachefirecat]

WOW! These are amazing! Thank you for sharing!

[yourlibrarian]

Glad you enjoyed them!

[light_of_summer]

Hi! I love seeing all these sunflowers—thanks for sharing them. I'd be curious to know what general area they were growing in, if you're OK with saying.

Re the small bluish flowers, I am not am expert, but agree that they could be morning glories. I zoomed in on your shot to try to see their leaf shapes: three-lobed. Then I got confused, because if I just do a web search for morning glories, I see a lot of heart-shaped leaves, instead.

However! Wikipedia says that there are more than 1000 different species of plants that are commonly called morning glories [link], and at least two of those species can have three-lobed leaves: Ipomoea hederacea [link] and Ipomoea nil [link]. So, quite possible!

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[yourlibrarian]

Thanks for sharing that 🙂 So we can say that they probably are -- I'd no idea there were so many kinds!