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My Petal Attraction to Sunflowers

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Sunflowers are my petalled best friends. They put a sunny smile in my face. For a brief moment, UP campus was home to these friends. Now they live on through these photos, always bringing out a wondrous smile from me. Will you view them, and SMILE? :-)

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  • Photos: 53
  • Views: 64706
  • Downloads: 5716

10 comments

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    • album of xwebfoto02
    • Fantastic album. nick

    • said xwebfoto02

    • 2007.07.11 at 08:27:48 PDT
    • album of joznig
    • This is such a pretty album. Thanks for sharing.Jozef

    • said joznig

    • 2007.07.03 at 08:44:49 PDT
    • album of rboise
    • Mary Ann, All your photos are so exquisite, throw in a little history, a bit of myth, a poem or two and you have a very nice album of sunflowers. I thank you for an update to this album of smiling faces. My best regards. ron

    • said rboise

    • 2007.07.01 at 14:48:17 PDT
    • album of glenn_janjan
    • I bet you really enjoyed taking all these sunflower photos! They seem to be smiling at full bloom in these pictures. I enjoyed this photogrpahic tour very much! Regards, Glenn from Philippines

    • said glenn_janjan

    • 2007.06.20 at 03:06:57 PDT
    • album of chars64
    • Yes, viewing your photos brought a smile to my face. I, too, love sunflowers and I never get tired watching them. Here in Baguio, from Oct. to Jan., some of our mountainsides are covered with wild sunflowers, and my heart leaps every time I look at them. Thanks for your golden sunflower album.

    • said chars64

    • 2007.06.17 at 07:59:28 PDT
    • album of fdguin
    • Mary Ann, Thanks for taking time to share this beautiful album. Let me quote Don Gray's poem: "This subtle, unseen rootedness, melting firmly with earthly planet's flesh, while seeking highest sky... metaphor of the life of man, what might, should be, the union of transcedence, earth's reality." We are really blessed by you sharing this album. It showed your inner beauty and unselfishness by carefully researching pertinent poems and data about this wonderful flower. Certainly, you will bring a big smile to those who will visit yet another masterpiece of an album. Thanks and God Bless! Ding

    • said fdguin

    • 2007.06.16 at 14:08:55 PDT
    • album of maryan54
    • "Sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) is one of the few crop species that originated in North America (most originated in the fertile crescent, Asia or South or Central America). It was probably a "camp follower" of several of the western native American tribes who domesticated the crop (possibly 1000 BC) and then carried it eastward and southward of North America. The first Europeans observed sunflower cultivated in many places from southern Canada to Mexico. Sunflower was probably first introduced to Europe through Spain, and spread through Europe as a curiosity until it reached Russia where it was readily adapted. ... Production of sunflowers subsequently rose dramatically in the Great Plains states as marketers found new niches for the seeds as an oil crop, a birdseed crop, and as a human snack food. Production in these regions in the 1980s has declined mostly because of low prices, but also due to disease, insect and bird problems. Sunflower acreage is now moving westward into dryer regions; however, 85% of the North American sunflower seed is still produced in North and South Dakota and Minnesota." This information was taken from this link: http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/afcm/sunflower.html

    • said maryan54

    • 2007.05.31 at 20:40:39 PDT

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