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I'm happy to announce I'll be selling prints of my work again at the 10th Annual Beaver Dam Farm Sunflower Festival this September. This will be my fifth year.

I neglected to bring my camera when I set up my booth in 2022, and of course it was one of the most intense sunsets I've seen there. My phone clearly doesn't know how to capture certain colors (like yellow,) but I enjoy this one too much not to post, even if it is an old cell phone shot.

"The Beaver Dam Farm Sunflower Festival helps to diversify the family farm income. The farmland was purchased in 1900, was a tomato cannery in 1916 and began as a dairy in 1927. In September of 2019 the farm sold out of the dairy industry and now runs beef cattle and has a hay and straw operation. The farm is still owned and operated by the family today."
beaverdamsunflowers.com/

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"'Don't forget us,' said the flowers to the Moon."

The crescent moon rising above the sunflowers at Beaver Dam Farm, closing out the first weekend of the sunflower festival.

"The Beaver Dam Farm Sunflower Festival helps to diversify the family farm income. The farmland was purchased in 1900, was a tomato cannery in 1916 and began as a dairy in 1927. In September of 2019 the farm sold out of the dairy industry and now runs beef cattle and has a hay and straw operation. The farm is still owned and operated by the family today."
beaverdamsunflowers.com/

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"Hip hip
Hip hip
Hip hip
Hip hip

When you're on a holiday
You can't find the words to say
All the things that come to you
And I wanna feel it too

On an island in the sun
We'll be playin' and havin' fun
And it makes me feel so fine
I can't control my brain

Hip hip
Hip hip

When you're on a golden sea
You don't need no memory
Just a place to call your own
As we drift into the zone

On an island in the sun
We'll be playin' and havin' fun
And it makes me feel so fine
I can't control my brain

We'll run away together
We'll spend some time forever
We'll never feel bad anymore

Hip hip
Hip hip
Hip hip

On an island in the sun
We'll be playin' and havin' fun
And it makes me feel so fine
I can't control my brain

We'll run away together
We'll spend some time forever
We'll never feel bad anymore

Hip hip
Hip hip (We'll never feel bad anymore)
Hip hip
Hip hip (No, no)
Hip hip (We'll never feel bad anymore)
Hip hip
Hip hip (No, no)
Hip hip (No, no)"

(Weezer, 2001)
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Beaver Dam Farm's 9th annual sunflower festival is going on this week. Of course I'll be set up again for Saturday and Sunday.

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"Oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh

All I can say is that my life is pretty plain
I like watching the puddles gather rain
And all I can do
Is just pour some tea for two
And speak my point of view
But it's not sane

It's not sane
I just want someone to say to me
Oh, oh, oh, oh
I'll always be there when you wake, yeah, yeah
You know I'd like to keep my cheeks dry today, hey
So stay with me and I'll have it made (I'll have it made)

And I don't understand why I sleep all day
And I start to complain that there's no rain
And all I can do is read a book to stay awake
And it rips my life away, but it's a great escape
Escape
Escape
Escape

All I can say is that my life is pretty plain
You don't like my point of view and I'm insane
It's not sane
It's not sane

I just want someone to say to me
Oh, oh, oh, oh
I'll always be there when you wake, yeah, yeah
You know I'd like to keep my cheeks dry today, hey
So stay with me and I'll have it made

I'll have it made (I'll have it made)
And I'll have it made (I'll have it made)
Oh no, no
You know we're really gonna
Really gonna have it made
You know we'll have it made"

(Blind Melon, 1992)
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Beaver Dam Farm's 9th annual sunflower festival is going on this week. Of course I'll be set up again for Saturday and Sunday.

PLEASE, NO GRAPHICS BADGES, OR AWARDS IN COMMENTS. They will be deleted.

3 frame panorama last night at Beaver Dam Farm Sunflowers, in Buchanan, Virginia.

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The sun screwed with the panoramic shot in every attempt - some of it is just darker

We didn't follow it to the letter, but it was close enough.

Selfie by the water

Again, the sun made part of the panoramic sweep darker than the rest; unfotunate.