Sunflowers

"I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights."  

-  Maya Angelou

I Missed It

"Look for beauty where it is not supposed to be found." 
-  Claes Oldenburg

"Unexpected intrusions of beauty.  This is what life is."  
 -  Saul Bellow

I missed it.

Driving down the gravel drive my heart sank.  

Dorothy's Sunflowers

"There is no such thing as an ordinary life."  -  Mark Twain

"There are only two ways to live your life.  One is as though nothing is a miracle.  The other is as though everything is a miracle."  -  Albert Einstein

The  sky was blue and the wind was blowing the day I picked to visit the sunflower field.  As I made my way through and around the sunflowers, I felt like the pictures I was taking were the same pictures I have taken before, same angle, same composition...nothing new...just ordinary.

Bubble Bee

 ‘Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn’t know it so it goes on flying anyway.’  -  Mary Kay Ash

This bee’s round little body doesn’t look like he was created for flying, but he does look cute with his skinny legs dangling as he maneuvers from flower to flower.  I am glad no one has ever told the bumble bees they aren’t suppose to fly, think of all the flowers that wouldn’t be pollinated if they did. 

Bumble bees are so intent on gathering pollen they end up doing the impossible.  Sheer determination and will power get the bee off and flying.   Desire, drive, determination, I need to take some lessons from the bumble bee.

Today I am joining Kim Klassen’s Friday Finds.  My images are textured with Kim’s texture 99.  My Finds this week are a sunflower field full of bees (and many other insects) and the thought that maybe I shouldn’t worry how impossible something may seem.   If my desire and determination are as great as a bumble bee’s nothing can stop me…

Thank you for stopping by!

Have a great weekend!

Michelle

 

Hairy Sunflower

This photo is textured with kk_0511 and kk_0411

Until I got up close and personal with this sunflower, I never considered sunflowers hairy.  It really does look like it has hair.  I’m sure there is a scientific term to describe this fuzz, but I think hair seems to fit.  

My daughter thinks this flower would make a great chandelier.  She is now planning her house to have all flower lights.  She is 12 and still has time to change her mind a few hundred times. I love hearing about each one of her new ideas.

This photo is textured with kk_0511 and kk_0411

This photo textured with kk_0511 and kk_0411

I don’t have an elaborate story for this Friday Find.  I just saw the sunflowers at the grocery store and wondered how much longer the stores would carry the fall flower.  So I bought them.  I imagined them in an old milk bottle, but found this blue vase first.  I am hoping the sunflowers stay fresh for a while longer, so I can take their photo in the old milk bottle too.  Maybe next week…

 
Today I am linking up with Friday Finds. 

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Have a great weekend!