This was a huge surprise for me. It’s been so hot outside in Oklahoma, that I’m rushing from the comfort of home quickly into the a/c of the car. While I have been “forced” to ride the motorcycle in this heat, enjoying the backyard hasn’t been on my short list of tasks. Truth be told, I’m not crazy about the heat, so hanging around outside is mainly in early spring, fall and some winter days.
So when I stepped outside to check on my littlest furry family member, Scarlett, because of this crazy heat, I was shocked to find sunflowers growing in the backyard. Of course, when confronting my wife, Terri, about this new development, she simply said “I know, I’ve been watering them”.
Apparently, these beautiful flowers started on their own, being scattered by the birds attacking the filled bird feeder. While cleaning up the back porch, Terri noticed some of the seeds took root and seemed to be growing quite well. She decided to help them along with daily water care but failed to let me know of the new tenants in our flower bed. I’m still a little shocked and very excited.
I never really thought about it much, but sunflowers are very popular in my home country of Spain and eating the tasty seeds filled many of the memories from my youth. But I’ve never gave a thought about purposely planting sunflowers in my yard. Well, that is now changing and Terri is onboard to get sunflowers in our front yard.
In the meantime, I love using the sunflowers for testing the vintage lenses in my arsenal without having to travel a long distance. These were taken with the Fujifilm X-Pro3 with either the Super Takumar 28mm f3.5 or Super Takumar 50mm f1.4 mounted on a a helicoid adapter. I hope you enjoy them as much I as did. I will post them to our Flickr Group page so you can see some of the metadata.