The sunflowers grew tired of growing in their garden.
So they picked up long legs and walked away.
After traveling awhile, they arrived at The Holler, hot and bothered.
They realized too late, as we often do, how good they had it in their garden.
I put them in water, and took their photos, cheering them up considerably.
I hope their sunburst cheers you too~
Note: the color in these photos is not enhanced. I have been experimenting with food coloring in flower water. Blue makes some incredible effects which I will show you later. If you’re interested check out:
http://www.wikihow.com/Dye-Flowers
Love them. I wondered about the color. I’d never seen sunflowers with those colors before. Looking at them I had the feeling like I’ve lived my life in black and white and for the first time experienced the world in color. Thanks.
I love the idiosyncratic way the color is absorbed by different flowers and it’s always a surprise to see how they will come out. So pleased you enjoyed them & cheers to you Colleen~ 🌻 🌻
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Cindy shared some sunshine…these sunflowers are beautiful!
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We all need light in our life. Thank you for adding yours! 🌻 🌻
This is really very nice indeed!
I am so glad! Thank you~ 🌻
Absolutely beautiful! I’d never heard of using dyes for sunflowers…the colors are so vibrant!
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I dyeing all sorts of different flowers now. You should the blue roses! Amazing~ 🌻
Is there something in the approach of autumn that makes us Cynthias itch to fool around with the flowers….dry hydrangeas, and tint the mirasols? Sunflowers are a very symbolic and emblematic flower for me and I love this idea of tinting them…go blue and purple stems!
Yes, us Cynthia’s definetly try to hold on to summer! 🌻 I couldn’t believe the way it picked up the purple. Now I am making blue roses! 🌻 🌻
Great photos! Pretty flowers! 🙂
Merci beaucoup mon ami 🌻
I love how the sunflowers walked away, just to realize that the garden wasn’t so bad after all. Very well done!
I learned to inject flower bulbs with ink when I was young, it’s interesting what you can do. I am looking forward to see the results of your experiments.
You did that with bulbs? How fascinating. Now I want to try that! 🌻 🌻 🌻
They are so vibrant and beautiful..! 😍
I am so happy you enjoyed them Andy & be well my friend~ 🌻
You too ^.^
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really loved this image so much! great idea!
Yay! Glad you did & thanks!
beautiful work my friend
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This is so very beautiful…stunning indeed!
Awww thank you. Flowers really are what they eat!!! 🌻
Beautiful. What Earthly perfection.
They are such amazing flowers. They grow fields of them near The Holler and getting them just as they are picked is a real treat! 🌻
What a beautiful bunch of happy sunflowers. Great series, Cindy!
Hope you are doing well my friend. I wish I could send you some bunches! 🌻 🌻
Thanks, Cindy! We have a forest of sunflowers, some up to 15 feet tall, but I love the ones you have.
I love the giant ones~
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Magnifique !
Merci beaucoup mon ami! 🌻
They are beautiful. Such amazing colour. I have only seen yellow so far. Thank you
Thank you much more for your lovely appreciation! 🌻 🌻
These flowers are pretty, Cindy. 🙂
Like you Ranu. Thank you! 🌻
You are so sweet, Cindy, thank you. 🙂
Wunderschön!
Vielen dank mein lieber Freund! 🌻
Splendous photographs !
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Welcome! Thank you and heading over to your blog now~ 🌻 🌻
Oh, my. Those are breathtakingly beautiful!
I was really pleasantly surprised by the purple. So glad you enjoyed & cheers to you~ 🌻
Those are gorgeous, Cindy! Very vibrant color.
I’ve grown this variety some years, and it will reseed itself from anything the birds leave behind. Even the name is beautiful.
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Yes, they do reseed and I love it. There are fields of them growning near The Holler. They are incredible when just picked as you know! 🌻
Awww..just so bursting with joy and unbridled life, the sunflower..it’s an indomitable force ya know??
I do know and I love them. I love to grow them too. They are Jack’s beanstalk with no bad giant at the top, just a big, sun facing beauty! 🌻🌻
Very pretty and vibrant – I have smiles. Thanks Cindy. 🙂
Awww, now I am smiling too. I wish I could give you bunches. Thinking of you and wishing you well~ 🌻 🌻
That’s amazing coloring! I can’t wait to see the blue!!
I am having fun with the blue and with mixing colors. The results are pretty inconsistent but fun none the less~ 🌻
I tried it once….once lol I’ll leave the mixing to you 🙂
It does yield inconsistent results, doing best with just cut flowers.
Big Color. Love it!
The flowers seemed to perk up too. I think they like being red and purple! 🌻
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For those of us working under glowering grey clouds and rain… these bring a bit of summer into our lives courtesy of Cindy Knoke..thanks Cindy as always for such stunning images.
I wish I could give you bunches of different colored ones Sally. Hugs to you~ 🌻🌻🌻
The images will last a lot longer than the flowers Cindy.. beauty of the digital age.. xx
True. What we put out in the web floats around for quite awhile like a un-tethered starman~
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I love how you explain their journey to inside your home…great analogy for us two legged beings. They are very beautiful!
Thank you! 🌻 Finding happiness where ever you are is fundamental.
Visually stunning effect with food coloring. I had never even heard of that before.
Thanks. It’s alot of fun. I am particulary jazzed with the blue roses! 🌻
How absolutely fabulous. We’ve done this with white flowers but never considered using actual coloured flowers… until now that is!
I’m new at it too and am getting mixed results but that is half the fun.So pleased you enjoyed & cheers to you~ 🌻 🌻
Brilliant. I had to put my sunglasses on.
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Tee hee! 🌻 They really add vibrant color to the house!
Stunning !!
Awww, thank you! 🌻
Beautiful burst of color and playfulness! Thanks Cindy. 🙂
I am a mad scientist now. Let’s see what color combos I can cook up!
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Sounds fun!
Don’t try it at home……
Simply loved how you put it. The long legs which walked away look really cool and their heads are even more pretty. I used food coloring in an experiment once and this was the result – https://pixelvoyages.com/2015/02/26/blue-chrysanthemum/
Oh I loved the chrysanthemum! Such a subtle, pretty blue! I now have white roses going in blue and green and purple! Fun~ 🌻🌻
Definitely cheered by this sunburst!
Alison <3
If you are cheered, than I am happy! 🌻
These are definitely cheery flowers. Your photographs are gorgeous! They look like oil paintings. I love your words too. <3 xx
People like you Vashti are why I love to blog! 🌻🌻
These are glorious, Cindy, the colours are amazing 🙂
I am so pleased you like them! Thank you & cheers too~ 🌻
I like what you’ve done with the food coloring. They’re so beautiful!
Isn’t it awesome the way they picked up the purple! That was a surprise~ 🌻
That is very interesting! Never thought of using food coloring!
Cindy, I love this!! The subtle blue with the stunning orange of these gorgeous flowers is simply stunning. Nicely captioned too! Great job. 🙂
It’s amazing how the color diffuses isn’t it! Purples, blues, pinks and red. I am having fun with this, but the results are very inconsistent! So pleased you enjoyed them~
Bronco orange. 🙂 They just need deep blue stems, now. 🙂
That would be a good trick wouldn’t it!! 🌻 🌻
Yep. Dipped in some dye it can be done. 🙂 Their game just started, so got to go. Go Broncos. 🙂
Yes, they cheer me up considerably!! Beautiful 🙂
This makes me glad I posted them Christy! 🌻 🌻
You can see the blue in the stems and some of the under leaves but does it give them that bright orange colour too? They’re just gorgeous, Cindy.
Leslie
It does and a bit of pink circling the outer perimeter of the center. Really different! 🌻
It is quite an interesting affect.
Leslie
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What amazing colours. I was looking at them and thinking you must have different coloured sunflowers where you live then I read the bit about the food colouring.
It is new to me too and now I am attempting to make blue roses! 🌻
Gorgeous!!! I love this picture!
So glad you do and thank you!
Wow those flowers are FANTASTIC! Thank you for brightening our day with their beauty! Hugz Cindy! Lisa and Bear
You make me jazzed I posted! Thank you two~ 🌻🌻
I always love your post sweetie!!! Your awesome and don’t you ever forget it! Hugz
Visa versa 2UX2!
Interesting experimenting! Gorgeous they are – looking forward to more of your experimenting!
I am enjoying being a mad scientist!
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Haha – and so are we ;-D
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You are the Georgia O’Keefe on the photography world Cindy. Stunning!!
Awww, I adore her!
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Gorgeous flowers and the photos are so clear! I’ve done this a bit with carnations, which turns out pretty good. 🙂
I hear carnations take the dye well but I haven’t tried it yet!
Beautiful…loved them!
Thank you and so glad you do! 🌻
Well – what a smiling surprise, Cindy: at first you’d think they’re Zinnias and then suddenly they’re Sunflowers 😀
I never thought of zinnias but it is true because you can’t see perspective in the photos. 🌻 🌻
True and also one expects (I guess due to some kind of conditioning from life’s ordinary experience) to see yellow petals with Sunflowers 😀
Exactly. Our eyes think for us~
What a vibrant and colorful series, Cindy. Terrific images. Interesting tip about food coloring in flower water.
Thank you Jane and just like Martha says, “We can learn something new everyday!” 🌻🌻
As colorful as a hippie’s psychedelic T-shirt, Cindy. 🙂 –Curt
Speaking of hippies, why aren’t you at Burning Man right now?
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Peggy and I decided to take the year off. But I am missing it Cindy. Next year. –Curt
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those are incredibly red reds and oranges…
I was really jazzed with the color on these! The key seems to be using just cut flowers, not ones that have been sitiing around for a few days.
The result of course of dye~ 🌻
The result of the magic of dye! 🌻
Ahhh I see
Thanks! All due to the magic of dye~
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My responses to comments are erasing………
Beautiful photos and the sunflowers–Wowsers! I was going to ask about the variety, but now I know to drop in some blue food coloring. Amazing.
Try red, blue and green. Plus, you can splice and make the flower bi-colored. I am becoming a mad flower dyeing botanist!
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Absolutely stunning. Thanks for the great idea. 🙂
To be scientifically responsible, I recommend you do your experiments outside. You don’t want a dye related scientific mishap!
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Lol, good advice Cindy. 🙂
Or, you can go the cheap way. Wear your worn-out, old clothes you don’t care about anymore. Eye protection, those bad looking sunglasses you bought and thought they made you look cool. 🙂
Maybe the dye will make the oufit look cooler! 😉
Thank you more for the kind comment and sorry my response got erased!
No worries. I know where to find you, lol. 🙂
ѕunflσwєrѕ αlwαчѕ mαkє mє ѕmílє! gσrgєσuѕ ѕhσtѕ🌻
The sunflowers and I thank you! 🌻🌻
Your comment makes me smile! Even though my first response got erased!
So very beautiful.
They really did come out beautifully and now you should see my blue roses. I am letting them get deeeeep blue!
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Thank you sorry my previous response got erased. The leprekans are at work…..
Beautiful pictures! Thank you for sharing about the color experiment. That is very interesting.
I have some blue and green roses sucking down dye out my window right now and I combined for purple!
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Thank you and cheers too!
Wow that dye really makes the color of the sunflowers pop out! I too enjoy having a bouquet of flowers in the home and will have to try working with dye too. Thanks for the inspiration Cindy! <3
Thankfully Lynn, you being a scientist, I don’t have to give you pointers on experimental safety.
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Hopefully you saw my previous comment before it erased!
Yes I did Cindy! Thank you. I agree with the scientist reference! 🙂
Very very beautiful!
Ahh, you are very kind~ 🌻🌻
Mad, mad, mad. And beautiful.
It’s a mad, mad, beautiful world! Be well my friend~ 🌻 🌻
Right!! like we are not going to want to know..funny girl..xxxxoo
Cheers to you my friend and giggles too~
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Great colors! (And the mad scientist pics are fun too…) 🙂
They made me smile too! 🌻
Gorgeous images, Cindy. And this would make a wonderful children’s story!
It would and then you could dye flowers with them. It would be fun and I do speak kid! 🌻
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Stunning images by Cindy Knoke. Would love to see this as a children’s story … 🙂
It would bef fun to do it with the photos wouldn’t it! I could even make the sunflowers walk~
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Hugs & Happy Weekend dear Susanne! 🌻🌻
What an amazing colour. I never would have thought of putting food colouring in water – how clever 🙂
It is a lot of fun to play around with colors and flowers.
Most of our sunflowers now bow their heads, drop their peddles, and allow the birds to harvest their seeds before winter sets in. Soon, I will clear them with them autumn garden chores and toss them to the goats for a snack. The cycle of life-and-death-and-life on the farm.
Oscar
P.S. Our hummingbirds even come to the sunflowers in bloom.
It is still summer here, with the hottest days yet to come, but I can here autumn tip-toeing in on your farm Oscar. It sounds so nice!
Absolutely beautiful, Cindy. Thanks for sharing. 🙂 — Suzanne
Thank you more for the kind appreciation Suzanne! 🌻
Gorgeous colour, Cindy. Amazing work with the dye. I love how bright the orange is, and the bits of purple on the stem.
The combination of red, orange and purple is pretty isn’t it! Hope all is well with you my friend~ 🌻
These are just amazing!
The color combo came out so unique and surprising. Pleased you like them~
What a joyful post! The flowers are lovely and so happy. <3
I wish I could give you a bouquet! 🌻🌻🌻
Such amazing colours and what a great effect, Cindy! Thanks for sharing. 🙂
Ah, thank you more for the kind appreciation and Happy Weekend Dina~
Brilliant idea, Cindy! These sunflowers and their colors are so cool. You’re always thinking, aren’t you, how to create new and different. Good for you! You inspire me! <3
Bloggers like you inspire me everyday so you are more than welcome & cheers to you! 🌻🌻
(((HUGS))), Cindy!! I mean it!! Bless you because I really am in a dry spot right now and struggling to get my work to look as I want learning how to use my new camera. Bless you!!! <3
Your photography is gorgeous. Just go outside and play and I can’t wait to see what you come up with!
The colours are amazing! What a cool idea. 🙂
I am having fun dyeing all sorts of flowers all sorts of blended colors!
The possibilities are endless!
They are but thankfully vases are not, so there is a curtailment! 😉
These are incredibly lovely, Cindy. Thank you for sharing them!
Thank you more for appreciating them and Happy Friday Debbie! 🌻🌻
Yet more striking photos – they certainly have the wow factor
Wow is good! Thank you so much Diana & cheers to you~
Very, very good composition with flowers accompanied by an extraordinary words melody – a nostalgic song of gratitude for the nature’s bounty…
I am touched by your beautiful comment. Thank you and happy weekend~
Loving all the images! Wonderful collection <3
Yay! Thank you and happy Friday! 🌻🌻
Such stunning rich colors and details with these photos ~ the first one looks almost like an elaborate painting ~ a great feel for the ending of summer. Wish you well Cindy.
Thank you Randall, mean a lot! It will still be summer here for at least two more months, but we’re heading north soon and I know that summer is slipping away…… 🌻
Knockout! My father used to specialise in blue carnations!
I am going to try white carnations and mums next!
Stunning!
Awww, so happy you liked it! 🌻🌻
Beautiful- I am going to check out that link!
Let me know if you become a mad-dyer like me!!
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I will!😃
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Let me know if you try it!
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Awww, thanks so much ! 🌻🌻🌻
Beautifully written… amazing photos…
I am touched. Thank you for your thoughtfulness~ 🌻🌻
Wow! That is amazing color Cindy!
Who’d a thunk, orange, red, purple and pink would look well together! 🌻
Beautiful wherever they are!
Happy Sunday Resa~ 🌻
So spectacular, Cindy! Your photos just blow me away!
Your kind comment made my morning! Cheers to you~ 🌻
I am completely cheered up by your stunning sun burst! Today we are seeing the sun here too for the first time after Hermine 🙂
If you are cheered than I am too! Happy the sun is shining on you too~
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Thanks for the cheerful bouquet. I love them! Your food dye/coloring idea is brilliant. I’ve got to try it.
Thanks Patti and let me know how it works for you!
Will do, Cindy. Have a great week. Are you traveling or staying at home?
Home this time and cooking Mexican food!
Hope you do and let me know how it goes. My prior responses have all erased!
My kind of shots. You really handled them great! Love them!
So pleased you do and thank you!
Hopefully you got my thank you yesterday that has now disappeared!
I got it!
Simply gorgeous!
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Merci beaucoup mon ami!
Breathtaking. So beautiful!
Ahhh, I am honored. Thank you Robert and be well my friend~
My comments are erasing…..sorry!
you’re comments are going away?
Yes they were gone for 24 hours but WP restored them this morning thank goodness!
When WordPress goes wrong, Nothin’ goes right!
It’s true and it’s amazing how dependent we are!
Yes…My life is certainly richer for having met the wordpress community.
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Stunning once again Cindy. I do love sunflowers. Bisous!
You have to love them! You live in France! 😉
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Yes, and red poppies in May, lavender… It is a tough job but someone has to be here. 😀 BTW, I notice you have been this way more than once. 😉
Of course. I love you and your blog! <3 My responses aren't posting. Are you getting this?
Cindy, I really cannot explain what I don’t understand. WP seems to confuse me more with each ‘improvement’. <3 Thanks for your support. xx
I hear you! WP fixed the problem this morning for which I am most grateful~
You were the first of two that had the same complaint with WP yesterday. I shall have to see if it has been repaired for a friend in OZ. I’m glad your issue is taken care of.
I think there are seeds that produce this color of sunflowers. They’re likely more expensive than your standard sunflower seeds. I generally use sunflowers seeds from the bird seed mix I feed. The bird seed source will either produce tall or short sunflowers, sometimes both.
Yes different varieties of seed will produce different size and color of flowers, but these were dyed. What is interesting is which type of flower takes dye best. Next year I will plant some of the cool color varieties just for fun. I too get my flowers from the bird seed!!! 🌻
I answered this yesterday but my response was erased! You are correct on all counts~
Erasing all of your comments, I wonder what other WP bugs are lurking out there.
Hopefully we will never find out!
Incredible color Cindy!! Do you know the name of that sunflower?? Gorgeous photos –like always! xox
I don’t know the name. Are you getting this response? It is not posting on my blog.
Yep, yep– here you are Cindy! I love hearing from you— and pouring over your incredible photos on your site…
So kind and makes me smile! Thank you~
I don’t know the name and wish I did! Sorry~
Gorgeous! Stunning bright color of these flowers.
I wish my thank you would show up!!!!
Hi Cindy, I got it. Thank you so much for taking time to respond and make sure it appears. 🙂 <3
Thank you Amy and hopefully this comment won’t erase!
Gorgeous and vibrant blooms.
I am very pleased you enjoyed them Jacqueline and thank you!
I am trying to respond to you a second time. My responses are erasing. Thank you & cheers too~
Oh dear. I hope it stops doing that. WordPress can get finicky at times.
Wow so vibrant
Thank you and I am sorry but my responses are not posting to comments!!!
No problem
I thought sunflowers were always gold in colour. But these look red-ish?
Yes, these are dyed and not a natural color…..
Absolutely stunning! I knew I had never seen sunflowers that color. They’re gorgeous. Very clever idea!
These came out the best. Not sure why, but I loved the colors~
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magnificent photos, you never disappoint! 🙂
Aww, thank you! The sunflowers helped out substantially~ 🌻🌻
A beautiful sunburst. Like the flowers we all need freshening up at times!
We certainly do!
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Oh nice!
Very cool about the symbiotic nature of flowers, colors and life, Cindy. May we all take the joy and beauty into our lives and spread it like flowers across our communities! Let it take “root” in harmony and peace. . . <3
You write and think beautifully Robin. Be well my friend~
Flower Bursts Forth in
Resplendent Lustrous Color
As Sun on the Earth
~~dru~~
Cindy, may I use one of your brilliant photos to illustrate my haiku on my blog? ~~dru~~
I would be very honored and thank you for asking. You can use my images whenever you like~
Gorgeousness!
Muchas gracias amiga mia y abrazos y besos~
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¡Qué preciosidad de flores! Me ha encantado la colección. Un abrazo, amiga <3
Muchas gracias amiga mia y abrazos y besos~
These beauties have soul!! Thanks for sharing, Cindy 😃 Have a wonderful week!
I am happy you can feel their souls! Happy Monday Lorrie~
Very pretty petals and great link! I’ve never thought to
dye flowers, but now wanna try that too 🙂 💜 Jackie@KWH
Please let me know the results and cheers to you~
Yes, these definitely brightened my day as I love orange!
It brightened my night to hear this! <3
Brilliant…!!!…:-)
That is what I think of your work so, visa versa 2UX2~ <3
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Awesome.
Awww, thank you so much!
Missed this post-sorry about the late comment. My wife plants every year sunflowers and then harvests them to feed the birds over the winter when no other food is readily available. She sits each morning with her coffee and enjoys watching them eat out of my computer room window. .
Your wife is a kindred soul. She and I would understand each other. We have a pomegranate orchard. I leave the fruit on the trees for the birds and we get flocks and fabulous varieties. The pomegranates are winter food and drought liquid for the birds. Birds are a daily blessing as you and your wife know. <3