#Wordless Wednesday – allow your photo(s) to tell the story.
Linda Schaub
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Linda Schaub
- Who is that masked man, er … raccoon? #Wordless Wednesday #My new furry friend at the Park – NOT!
- “Spring is sprung. The grass is riz. I wonder where the birdies is?” ~ Anonymous
- Bewildered and bedraggled Snowdrops. Angry Robin bemoaning frozen worms. #Wordless Wednesday #Weary from Winter #3 years of Wordless Wednesdays for me!
- Ahh – Spring arrives today!
- Why a Duck? Why not a Seagull? #Wordless Wednesday #Marx (Bros.) Madness!
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FIFTY FAVORITE PARK PHOTOS
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- Parker noshin’ nuts
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- Fox Squirrel
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- Black Squirrel
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- Parker, my Park cutie!
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- Pekin Duck
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- Mallard Hybrid Duck
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- Midnight munchin’ nuts
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- Mute Swan
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- Goslings
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- Mama Robin
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- Seagulls on ice floe
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- Great Blue Heron
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- Parker chowin’ down
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- Mallard Duck
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- Northern Cardinal
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- Great Blue Heron (“Harry”) fishing for shad
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- Parker: shameless begging
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- Viceroy Butterfly
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- Great Blue Heron
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- American Goldfinch
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- Seagull
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- Robin baby (not fledged yet)
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- Mallard Ducks
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- Robins almost ready to fledge
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- Parker angling for peanuts
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- Robin fledgling
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- Parker making a point that he wants peanuts
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- Parker smells peanuts
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- Parker with a peanut
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- Red-Winged Blackbird
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- Seagull
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- Red-Bellied Woodpecker
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- Pekin Duck
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- Starling
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- Canada Geese family
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- Canada Goose and goslings
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- Red-Winged Blackbird
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- Parker says candy is dandy.
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- Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly
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- American Goldfinch
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- Hunny Bunny
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- Parker looking for peanuts
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- The pier just past sunrise
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- Mute Swan
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- Parker in the snow
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- Parker and a treat
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- Great Blue Heron
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- Me and my shadow (a/k/a Parker)
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- Fox Squirrel
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- Seagull
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- Canada Goose
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- Mallard Ducks
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- Mute Swan
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- Fox Squirrel – Parker
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- Northern Cardinal
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BADGES
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- 02-02-2018
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- 03-13-2018
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- 03-25-2018
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- 03-26-2018
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- Year #6!! 02/2019
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- 04-13-2019
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- 11-21-19
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WALKIN', WRITIN', WIT & WHIMSY 
Those sunflowers are spectacular!
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Glad you liked them Anne … they are in a homeowner’s yard on a corner lot. I wanted to wait until they were dark centers, but our incessant rainy weather made me think they might not last that long. I was wrong as they are filled with black oilers and the birds were enjoying them this morning.
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Sounds idyllic.
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Gorgeous!
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I know why you like them in your gardens Kim – they just make you feel good to see them. A goldfinch was perched feasting on a yellow one as the seeds are not ripe.
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That’s another reason the goldfinch come my the dozens and I especially enjoy their sweet song and the flash of yellow as they fly by.
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I took some pictures of the ripe sunflowers today – I was hoping to see a goldfinch come bopping by. Of course that only happens when the camera is in the case or my hands are full. I love the sound of the goldfinch. I pass a house every day where they must have feeders or it lives in a tree – every morning I hear it. Beautiful.
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Perfect mix of flower and lighting.
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Glad you liked them Kate. They are ripe now, just about 10 days after I took the photos. There was a goldfinch enjoying some this morning when I walked by.
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Thanks for brightening my day with these beautiful sunflowers. They always make me smile! 🙂
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Glad you liked them Laurie. I really liked the orange striped sunflowers which you don’t see around as much and a goldfinch was enjoying some seeds this morning, since they have ripened since I took the photos.
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But still beautiful at any stage! ☀️
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I agree Barbara – our sunflowers ripened so much later than yours as we’ve noted before. Today, the seeds were black and ripe and a goldfinch was in his glory. 🙂
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I like how many different kinds of sunflowers you captured. They don’t seem to plant different varieties around here. We passed a field yesterday, the stems were all bent over and flowers long gone to seed.
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The yellow ones were really tall Barbara – towering well over me and I’m 5′ 9″ tall. The orange ones seem to be a unique color and much smaller than a traditional sunflower. Today I went past and got some more pictures – the seeds have ripened and the middles are black oilers, ready for eating. I saw more bees than birds though.
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Sunflowers always seem to be smiling! Do they know something we don’t?
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Must be all the sun’s rays beating down on them Wayne. No SAD for these flowers. These were tall and have continued to grow taller since I took the photos 10 days ago. It is a homeowner’s property on a corner lot and I’ve watched them from day 1, budding and ripening and today a goldfinch was feasting on one of the yellow ones.
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you watched them growing up! They must be smiling for you then!
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You are right Wayne – today I walked by, totally ripe and full of black sunflower seeds. I hoped to see a goldfinch today and had the camera ready, but no goldfinch. Once they reached the top of the cyclone fence the end of August, they took off like crazy!
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You should be like Johnny Apple seed……..you could go across the country planting Sunflowers! You’d be known as “Sunflower Linda”!!
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I could get into having that nickname Wayne. Next year I’ll try growing some. But I’d start with the plants to give them a good start due to the bunnies. Last time I used seeds. Only one took in the garden and the ones grew that I planted in pots, but didn’t get too tall.
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Good point, everything begins at home!
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Miss Linda…………………………………those large, bright, colorful daisies look like they’re in Prime Time to me!
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they are gorgeous aren’t they Ann Marie – today they were fully ripe. I was/am hoping to get a goldfinch enjoying the seeds if I’m lucky.
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Fantastic group of sunflower pics!! You even got a shot with a flying visitor on the flower. The first sunflower seems like a huge one and the orange tinted one is unique.
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Glad you liked them Esther. The yellow ones were very tall, way taller than me and I’m 5′ 9″ tall. I like the orangey ones – very unique and quite a big smaller. I took those pictures about 10 days ago and today they were ripe so I took some more pictures to put in an upcoming post.
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There’s a pumpkin patch open every September to October with rows and rows of tall sunflowers!
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I hope one day to locate the farm where they have the sunflower festival and lavender festival. I went to a big nursery one year and photographed the rows of them. But out in a field or a pumpkin patch is much more fun!
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The pumpkin patch is a fall must! I try to take the kids each year. When they were smaller, they’d cry at the sight of inflated animals on top of the bounce houses. Easter bunny is also a scary one for them although that may have changed now.
Are you going to visit a pumpkin patch this year?
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The rows and rows of pumpkins look inviting to go and take the camera. No I am thinking I’ll wait one more year due to COVID, despite having both shots. I just worry as too many are not vaccinated, though it would be an outside event. Do you just visit the pumpkin patch or pick out the pumpkins there for carving as well?
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Covid has put a damper on all those yearly traditions. We always visit a pumpkin patch, either big or small, each autumn but last year we missed. You never know when you’re at risk so all this unknown makes us stay home. Hopefully, we’ll go this month on a weekday when it’s quiet: one major benefit of homeschooling of going places off-time.
I remember your pictures from last year of the squirrels who devoured the carved pumpkins. Did you hear the news about a squirrel/s who squirreled away over hundreds of pounds of walnuts in the car’s engine? https://www.insider.com/squirrel-packs-walnuts-north-dakota-mans-truck-2021-10
They make it into the news quite often!
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Yes, that is a benefit of home school, like me working from home, so going on errands and grocery shopping on a weekday morning to avoid crowds. They are remodeling my grocery store, so I had to go on a weekend as the whole store is torn up, but it is closer than the others. I had thought to get some mini pumpkins today and keep them for when the trees start turning color but there were none. They had bagged gourds but they were waxed as they looked shiny, so I will have to try another time. I did see that story Esther – thank you for sending it to me. I saw it on the radio station all-news site I listen too. How it stored all those nuts in such a short amount of time is incredible – they are very industrious and can remember where they bury them as well.
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Great colours so bright and make you smile – sadly the farm that grew sunflowers near us last year and opened the fields up to visit did not repeat again this year.
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Yes I took some photos today of the ripe sunflowers – so beautiful. That is too bad Andy. I remember you took your parents there to visit and had a photo of them at that farm. At least that is a good memory for you about the sunflower field.
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What bright and beautiful flowers! I always find sunflowers so cheery, and yet have never grown them myself, although we used to have them on the farm sometimes when I was a kid. Did you venture out to the sunflower farm again Linda?
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I thought so too Joni. And the yellow ones were so tall! I lucked out seeing them growing in someone’s garden in August and started watching them every day when I passed to get photos. They now have black seeds. No, I did not go back yet but will try to go next year (with better directions). It is a pretty crowded event (from what I saw on their Facebook site). So I’ll wait … it is going on now. They had their lavender festival in July 2020 and again this year. I went on their FB site to see it. Same place – surely I can’t get lost again as I ended up at a Metropark in the same zip code!
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Thank you for brightening up my day Linda!
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Happy to do so Diane – they are so cheery looking.
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Hi Linda
Those colours are orangellowiscious.
Like summer in fall.
Susie
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Yes, I love those orangey ones the best Susie. P.S. – I had to rescue your comment out of SPAM. WordPress didn’t like “orangellowiscious” for some reason. 🙂
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Masterful photo series Linda
The different angles and variation on color – going back now to look again at such a fun sunflower post!
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Glad you liked it Yvette – well, if only both of us could have grown something like these. Sigh. Maybe next year?
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well I walked into one of my favorite stores (across town) and thy had fresh flowers on a blow out sale – and guess what? one of the packs had sunflowers – so I grabbed one of those packs and they sit in a vase ( I will post them in an upcoming “blooms” post)
and so I feel as if I had sunflower needs met this year and it is okay on my end that neither of us were able to grow any.
If not next year – maybe another year – so let’s keep the convo gong about it (I think it is so much fun to share this idea with ya – hahah)
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That is your reward – you at least tried and they didn’t make it which is more than me. I thought it would be too hot as we were in moderate drought and supposed to be like that the remainder of the Summer. Instead we had almost 20 inches of rain. These sunflowers in this garden took off, especially the last few weeks. I’ll look forward to your post about blooms and yes, we will keep talking about sunflowers.
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well Linda – you have to check out Terri’s post (and maybe link up with her challenge) but at least peek at the sunflowers –
https://secondwindleisure.com/2021/09/19/sunday-stills-monthly-color-challenge-all-that-is-gold/
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Hi Yvette – I just popped over to Terri’s post and thank you for the link and your suggestion. Terri’s sunflowers were beautiful and I took your advice and left the link to my sunflowers post. I should do that for Terri’s next challenge post as well, as I have a few Fall colors up my sleeve for upcoming Wordless Wednesday posts.
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Well that makes me smile ! I am trying to join in with terri’s challenge more because the folks there are so awesome (and so it Terri) and it is also fun to connect at times –
Anyhow – trying to join when I can but we shall see how it goes
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This is only the second time I’ve done that and the first one was thanks to you as well Yvette. It was for Restless Jo I believe and I put in a link from one of my walks.
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Oh right on! I am a glad we are blog friends
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I am glad we are blog friends too Yvette.
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The stand tall and proud and full of stories.
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Yes, they do Barbara. I have been watching these sunflowers on my morning walk. They really took off the last few weeks.
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beautiful hues, Linda.
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Thank you Pam – a glorious way to end Summer and begin Fall, my favorite season.
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Mine, too!!🙌💕
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I love sunflowers! Luckily my neighbor plants them for me (that’s my story anyway) every year. Love the happy colors and happy bees!
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Me too Janis. Lucky you! I got these shots from a house I pass every day and watched them grow from about a foot tall. You cannot help but smile when you see sunflowers – they are so cheery looking!
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Fab photos of your gorgeous sunflowers, Linda! If I could grow them all year round and keep real ones in my house, I would be happy. You captured these beautifully with your lens and harvesting the seeds soon fits right in with the Sunday Stills theme of harvest gold this week. Welcome and please join me every week or when you can.
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Thank you Terri. These are sunflowers growing in a house on a corner. I watched them daily from just a foot high to these towering sunflowers, some higher than me (5′ 9″ tall). I will have some more flowers next week for Wordless Wednesday, some beautiful mums I saw at a big produce market, so I will join you again. Thank you for inviting me Terri.
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We have wild sunflowers that grow different times of year here. In one of the empty lots on our new subdivision, some volunteers popped up (from neighboring yards) so we grabbed a few and planted them in ours. Still growing strong!
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Terri – I have heard of sunflower seeds missed by the squirrels and popping up in gardens. I don’t blame you for grabbing a few volunteers. My Russian Mammoth sunflower was as tall as the neighbor’s garage and then some, but, as it grew heavy with ripe seeds, it fell over one night and the next morning I went out to water and the “pan” was on the ground and squirrels were feasting on it, with the birds lined up on the chain link fence looking sad.
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I would love to grow a big one like that someday. Sorry it fell over 😔
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I wish I had a photo of the look on my face when I saw the stalk bent down and squirrels chomping merrily away. 🙂
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These are gorgeous. And welcome!
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Thank you Kirstin!
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