Last year, our affection for these summer beauties reached its
height just as the sunflowers reached theirs. The conditions
were perfect for sunflower abundance. We celebrated sunflowers
for weeks, watching them grow towards the sun, sketching them
and thinking of them as we were filling up tummies with our
beloved SunButter® made from sunflower seeds. This year we
planted seeds all around. Under the windows, in the beds, in the
garden. Alas, either a sneaky squirrel was watching us or the
rains didn’t reach the seeds at the right time. This year, we’ve
only had the sunflowers right around our bird feeder. But that
hasn’t quashed our enthusiasm. We followed the instructions in
the July Outdoor Hour Challenge newsletter for how to ‘fill in
with color.’ What fun we had with that! So, even though we
thought we’d really studied sunflowers last year, all the new
ideas on the handy sunflower grid (available in the July Nature
Newsletter – link below) helped us see new parts of our
sunflowers. Helped us to appreciat