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| picture data: Nikon D300, 16 - 35 mm f/4.0; picture taken at ISO 800, 35 mm (52 mm equivalent), f/13, 1/640 |
Last year we had some (unplanned) nice, big sunflowers in our vegetable garden. Once the blooming period was over and the plant was having a hard time keeping its heads up with all the seeds, we cut off the flower heads and laid them on the empty beds, for the birds to harvest the seeds. This spring now, when (to our dismay) the weeds started growing like crazy, I found this interesting skeleton of a sunflower head amidst all the emerging weed — an interesting contrast between sparkling new life and its decay the year after!
