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SunflowersWe were going to our lake cottage this weekend at Manitou Beach, Mi. and passed the most amazing sunflower garden. We were driving too fast to stop but on the way home, I made my husband pull over to get some photos.

There were at least 6 other cars doing the same thing.

When I think of sunflowers I think of being in college and staying up all night playing bridge and eating sunflower seeds. I also think of all the baseball games I sat at with my boys, seems like that is a stable with baseball players.

To see this field of sunflowers was breath taking. sunflowers

I also think of the famous artist Vincent Van Gogh and his famous paintings of sunflowers. If you didn't know, the sunflower seed that we eat is the center of the flower.

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I like mine salty.

Just thought you'd like to know...

This post has absolutely nothing to do with real estate, however,  if you want to you can search for houses at Search Ann Arbor Houses.

If you'd like to take a look and live in Michigan, go out U.S. 12 towards Clinton, just outside Saline and you can't miss them as they are on both sides of the highway.

 

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38 Comments on Sunflowers in Michigan

AUG
04
2008
160,546 Points 11 Featured Posts Outside Blog

Those are some awesome pictures. I love sunflowers!

7:57pm • #1
792,223 Points 32 Featured Posts Localism Sponsor Outside Blog Called Shot Master

Great sunflower photos.  It reminds me of my trip to Tuscany last summer.  Yes, there are vineyards on most of the hillsides by there are also fields of sunflowers.  The beauty of it all kept my camera clicking too.

8:04pm • #2
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Missy - I too would hae asked my husband to pull over.  A field of sunflowers must have been a lovely sight. Thanks for sharing.

8:06pm • #3
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Beautiful pictures!  I never thought about where they grow all those sunflowers that produce all those seeds!  What a neat thing to have close to home.

8:07pm • #4
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I love sunflowers Missy. Yours look beautiful in Michigan. Just like YOU!!

8:12pm • #5
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Wow, Missy this is phenomenal! What a gorgeous field...okay I didn't know you could eat them but that just makes them more special! How awesome! This should be in your Diary!

Later in the rain~Deb

8:26pm • #6
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Missy, what a beautiful garden!  We saw a similar sunflower garden years ago outside Quebec City when we were on our honeymoon.  Guess what flowers I brought home for my wife this evening -- you got it, sunflowers!

8:28pm • #7
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Missy

When I was a bee keeper there wasn't a more beautiful sight than sunflower fields.

Sincerely

Tom Braatz 

8:33pm • #8
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These are amazing photos, Missy. Aren't you glad you took to time to stop and snap them? There is so much we miss becuase we are too busy or don't take the time. I know that having my caremar with me all the time now helps me take that time to slow down...usually, at least.

Jeff

8:37pm • #9
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wow how beautiful ....    i've never seen such a site in person it must be amazing.. thanks for sharing with us

8:41pm • #10
287,652 Points 33 Featured Posts Outside Blog

Oh Missy this brought back memories.  When I lived overseas every year I was fascinated with the huge sunflowers...fields of them.  I had only seen small sunflowers before, and to see these flowers that were taller than me...well it left an impression for sure :0  Thanks for the memory.

8:59pm • #11
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Hey Missy,

Fields of sunflowers beautiful. Got of kick out of "made my husband pull over..."

9:15pm • #12
384,516 Points 28 Featured Posts Localism Sponsor Outside Blog Attended Rain Camp Called Shot Master

Missy, Thank your husband for pulling over!  These are great pictures....My daughter lives off of sunflower seeds!  Salty here, too!  I would love to see these. I bet is is beautiful!

9:16pm • #13
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We grow a few mostly for the birds and just north of Grand Rapids is a field of Sunflowers they are quite dramatic. Nice Photos.

9:39pm • #14
174,786 Points 5 Featured Posts Localism Sponsor Outside Blog

Positively gorgeous!  I hope you shared these on Flickr too!

9:46pm • #15
192,058 Points 2 Featured Posts Localism Sponsor Outside Blog Called Shot Master

Missy, that is too cool. I've never seen a field of sunflowers like that, thanks for sharing!

Oh, and yes, the seeds have to be salty!

9:55pm • #16
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Thanks for the beautiful photos of the sunflowers... they always look cheery, don't they?

10:05pm • #17
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Missy, sunflowers make me think of my childhood.  I'm originally from Kansas and that is the Kansas state flower.  I remember them growing wild in our back yard.

10:18pm • #18
203,404 Points 3 Featured Posts Outside Blog

Missy - this are sooooooooo beautiful!  I wish we had more flowers here.  I think sunflowers are one of my favorite.

10:35pm • #19
179,456 Points 5 Featured Posts Called Shot Master

How wonderful! I love to see the splash of yellow against the blue sky! Sunflowers are a rare commodity here in Missouri; miss them from my Illinois days! Thanks for sharing!

10:54pm • #20
187,781 Points 31 Featured Posts Outside Blog

I love sunflowers, used to grow a whole bunch of them in my garden. 

11:28pm • #21
AUG
05
2008

Missy, the memories that you brought to us made me remember my college days. Both Bridge and Sun flower seeds but not necessarily together.  Those were the days. Love the post. AJ

1:31am • #23
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Great pictures, Missy.  The fields remind me of North Dakota many years ago... nothing but sunflowers as far as you could see.

2:10am • #24
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My mother used to grow them in our back yard when I was a kid....I don't think FL has that type of flower species.

6:41am • #25
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Missy - those are beautiful!  It's a gentle reminder of the wondrous sights we pass by every day and don't see.  We really need to slow down ....

6:49am • #26
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Missy, sunflowers, the official state flower for Kansas (where I grew up), were weeds.  My parents used to pay my brother and I to pull them up so grass would be able to grow in the back yard.  Our next door neighbor (a single mom in the 50's) let her yard go to seed, and while it looked as beautiful as your photos, my parents were ready for blood!  We had no idea how delicious the seeds were.

Beautiful photos!

8:43am • #27
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Wow! Those sunflowers are gorgeous! I have never tried to gro any. I did see some like these once growing in a field in Canada. They are amazing flowers.

9:27am • #28
302,251 Points 46 Featured Posts Outside Blog

Posts having nothing to do with real estate are some of my favorites! These are absolutely beautiful photos! Have fun at your lake house!

10:01am • #29
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Missy,  I never leave home without my bag of sunflower seeds- a very healthy food, great snack as you're driving hither and yon. Thank you Michigan for the bountiful crop!

11:01am • #30

I passed this field last week on the way to take my daughter to get two wisdom teeth removed in Ann Arbor.  We have been making lots of trips to the dentist and these flowers must have just bloomed because we didn't see them before and you can't miss them!  I thought it was so cute how they all face the same way, like hundreds of little sun worshipers all lifting their faces to the sky.  It actually crossed my mind to take some pictures and blog about them here, but that's all it did was cross.  Thats why you are such a great blogger and I not so much :)

1:35pm • #31
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Hi Missy,
Nothing, but everything to do with real estate.  I can think of lots of ways to justify this as a real estate blog but even if there is no connection, the sunflowers are gorgeous and I enjoyed it.  Thanks.

3:12pm • #32
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I love Sunflowers and they are my favorite flower.  I used to grow them in the sand in Florida as a kid..as an adult...I have always had sunflowers growing!  Now that would be a beautiful site to see!

5:14pm • #33
647,759 Points 5 Featured Posts Outside Blog Called Shot Master

Sunflowers are so beautiful - mine should be flowering any day now.  Thanks for sharing your pictures.

5:40pm • #34
JUL
13
2009
543,247 Points 39 Featured Posts Outside Blog

Missy,

Nice pics, but having observed Pennsylvania sunflower farms going for miles, the camera can't capture the awesome reality of real life visual observation!!! How about it!!! Thanks,   Fran

3:51pm • #35
AUG
15
2009

I love all those flower. Sunflower is my favorite flower, the meaning of this flower to me is: Hope Shiny Joyful and Never Give Up because it always face to sun. I hope one day i also have sunflower farm:)

Pipor
1:24am • #36
AUG
29
2009
230,865 Points 1 Featured Post

Beautiful! I just took some pictures of the sunflowers my brother planted.... Haven't had a chance to post them yet, hopefully this week!

2:06pm • #37
JAN
30
2011

these pictures are soo amazing! sunflower is my favorite flower, i have been looking for sunflower pictures everywhere. thanks for sharing! seeing these pictures is a real peace :D Too bad there is no sunflower fields in Indonesia. I saw a few sunflowers in Jakarta, but they look pathetic inside an ugly pot. I really wish that someday people in indonesia realize the beauty of sunflowers and plant it in a big field. L  

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