Well, us common folk take short car trips, looking at the world through the camera lens most times with an eye to showing nature and sometimes situations that escape us if we move through God's world too fast.
Take this morning, after a leisurely Saturday pancake breakfast, a tradition in the Carolyn kitchen, she spotted a note on Fb that the Sunflower farm would be open this morning. Maybe if we go early, we can beat the crowd.
So, out to the truck, up highway 58 to Mahan Gap Rd., north on Ooltewah-Georgetown Rd. about a mile, and pull into the parking on the east side of the road.
Sometimes it is necessary to use the truck for more than just to and from transportation.
Thirty or so acres of sunflowers in bloom:
Amazing to see so many
Some folks, maybe commoners too, use the yellow backdrop to have a photo-op with their dog.
Some moms dress up the girls for a yellow and white shot, with the little boy as the contrast.
The flower stalks are over the heads of the viewers.
For the most part, the flowers are not harvested. Most of the acreage is leased out to a dove hunting group, and the flowers are allowed to just drop their seeds on the ground to await the dove season. The sunflowers planted here do not develop the seeds that are used in sunflower oil and other products, so there is not much, if any, commercial value.
The farm produces strawberries in the Spring and pumpkins in the Fall as their main crops.
The place is worth a visit, and it is free. It is amazing to see all these sunflowers facing toward the sun as it rises in the east.
But the day was not finished.
My charming wife suggested we drive down Birchwood Pike on our way home. This roads skirts the main channel of the Tennessee River and is directly across the water from the Sequoia Nuclear Plant.
From Sunflowers, God's work in nature, to Sequoia, man's use of God's resources we seem to cover the wide spectrum of this day's adventure.
And check the ingenuity of using a step ladder as a dock ladder. Good thinking.
Oops, there is one more shot that I need to comment on.
The whole field, when grown, seems pretty level, but very now and then one plant shoots up above the pack. I'm not sure, but I believe that this rogue plant is not a sunflower at all, but a periscope, painted to resemble the flowers and used for spying on all the people around. The perfect spy tool with a 360 degree field of vision as it mimics the real flowers following the sun.
Perhaps these acres of yellow are not so mundane and innocent as they appear.....
Big Brother?
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