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ice flower
The same year local farmers grew sunflowers there was an early-season ice storm. The ice made this lone flower look almost like a windmill.
Here’s a couple of things about sunflowers as a farm crop that AI thought I needed to know; I cannot vouch for the veracity, so my apologies if I’m just spreading rumors.
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Soil Health:
Sunflowers have a deep taproot that helps with soil conservation by improving soil structure, reducing compaction, and bringing nutrients from deeper soil layers closer to the surface.
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Pollination:Sunflowers are attractive to pollinators, beneficial insects, and birds, making them a good choice for biodiversity.
Lubbock County, Texas
photographed 10.27.2020
Bough, frozen
Look at me, pretending I understand color photography!
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 10.27.2020
Summer’s Sad Soldiers
Farmers around here grew a lot of sunflowers this year. And toward the end of the season, there were a lot of people standing the edges of the fields to get photos. I didn’t stop then, when the flowers were bright and full. But the day of the ice storm? Yes, that was the day I went out to see the sunflowers. The thick coat of ice made everything look blurry and out of focus, an effect I hadn’t quite anticipated but that I rather liked.
Lubbock County, Texas
photographed 10.27.2020
Half Iced
The upwind sides of the vegetation was coated with ice first. It would have been a glittering, magical landscape if the sun had come out…
Palo Duro Canyon State Park, Texas
photographed 12.30.2017
The letting go
We returned home from a Thanksgiving-weekend funeral through the remains of a winter storm that had slowed our travels two days earlier.
It is the season of letting go.
Dickens County, Texas
photographed 11.29.2015
One Day | One Image 