Monday, August 13, 2012

Sunny exits stage right



I realized, as I pushed the appropriate button in the bank of door uppers and downers, I’ve never taken a picture of the sunflower with our town hall as a backdrop.  It is a wonderful building, wonderfully conserved.


Sunny was a little chewed up today.  Someone’s buffet.  I expect next week there will just be a hole in the pavement.


I looked under at the flower, and found a fat grasshopper.  He probably has not read Aesop’s Fables.


And on the sidewalk into the office, a dragon fly.  He was hard to snap.  When I moved, he moved.  So, we danced a little on the sidewalk in the sun before I went into work.


17 comments:

  1. Sunny has done her job and done it well.

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  2. dancing with dragon flies - good way to start the day

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  3. Oh, that is a really cool dragonfly photo! i would love to have taken it.

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  4. Dancing on the sidewalk, I can just picture you and the dragonfly with Sunny as an audience.

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  5. People can see you from the windows, you know!!
    Jane x

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  6. I love that you follow the story through to the end. Thanks you for sharing the tale of Sunny!

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  7. That was one fat grasshopper. Wish we could have seen the dragonfly dance. 8D

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  8. Sunny beat the odds and even grasshoppers need to eat.

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  9. Not many sunflowers can say they had as many pictures of them put on the internet as Sunny has!! Sunny, you're a star :)

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  10. THat sunflower has led an amazing life! :)

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  11. Wonderful, wonderful shot of the dragonfly. The murdering grasshopper - and it is amazing how much one hopper can eat did indeed look quite plump.

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  12. Will Sunny II be out next year? Lovely dragonfly.

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  13. That IS a wonderful looking building.
    Oh, poor Sunny, being devoured like that. It'll be sad to see that hole in the sidewalk.

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  14. Interesting finds you've got :D

    I read somewhere that a sunflower's life only lasts for a month... and the seed falls down on the ground to produce new seedlings.

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  15. sorry to see sunny go--wonderful pics though!

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  16. I had been wondering about your sunflower, that indomitable plant. It had a great run!

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