Well, it finally happened. After two months and a fair amount of nurturing, cajoling (and head shaking for planting so many sunflowers in such a generally sunless spot of the front yard, Coyote Corner is proud to present its first blossom of the bunch, as shown half-opened as of this morning in a capture from …
In the course of my timelapse of a sunflower yesterday I was enthralled by one of the tiny visitors the camera captured during its extended stay:
Just can’t help myself from sharing when I find a nice still from the timelapses I do of the sunflowers in my backyard patch (click it for the bigger picture): As to why I timelapse? It’s all part of making my voluntary observations for the Great Sunflower Project more efficient. Rather than physically park myself …
There I was sun-dappled and slaving away outside on the laptop, the tracks of a CD of Spanish guitar music filling the space with sound from the two wireless outdoor faux-rock speakers I’m so glad I bought last week. Two cats were napping opposite me in patio chairs and a drowsy Ranger dog snoozed at …
This was the sunflower whose main bloom that the renegade squirrels took left me shaking fists at the rascally rogues. But one of the beautiful aspects of sunflowers is when they lose their heads, often times they’ll just shrug off the setback and make more. In this case, this subsequent flower pictured is one of …
I did lose another bloom today, but lest I put forth the impression that all my sunflowers are going to the squirrels, a few blooms have managed to avoid those furry fiends and instead have been found by the honeybees for whom they were intended (click for the bigger picture).
I know, I know… The reasoning part of me understands that I can’t grow a sunflower patch for any specific creature. You can only do so much to protect it and the rest is mainly hoping for the best — and even when they get destroyed you try to recognize that the flowers aren’t going …