Today, my friend Alex and I visited Bob's Corn, a lovely, pastoral farm in Snohomish nestled in a lush valley. We were checking out the place so we could come back in a few weeks and go through (run through!) the corn maze. It's become an annual event for us, and we are looking forward to this year's exercise.
While we were visiting the country store on the property, we took a look at the pumpkin patch. With the cool and wet weather this summer, the pumpkins are only large yellow blossoms the first week of September. Behind the pumpkin patch, however, there was a beautiful display of Indian Blanket sunflowers. Their rusty-red color is striking, and it's a nice change from the traditional yellow sunflowers. They were at least 10 feet tall, and the picture I got of the flower featured a bee right in the center of the flower. Pollination is still going on this time of year! (there are two kinds of sunflowers--pollinless and pollin-bearing. This was a pollin-bearing variety).
As a border in front of the large Indian Blanket sunflowers was a row of small, yellow miniature sunflowers. They made a happy statement in the afternoon sun, enjoying the warmth radiating from the old red barn that they adorned.
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