sunflowers #2 (2011)

I’ve always dug sunflower season: a last brilliant gasp of summer before autumn. Every sunflower season for the last 3 or 4 years we’ve made a point to find a first rate sunflower field for photo ops with the family. Marshall county has had some of the best in the past, but the farmers I know have moved away from the crop – and they never got into it for the aesthetics anyway. And it’s a 2 + hour drive.

Right now is the best time to find pictures. They'll be haggard in a week.

There’s a farmer near Lawrence who we’ve discovered – who plants a field most years – and leaves a Karma bucket up so you can cut flowers (1$ apiece I hear) if you want. I’ll search and post again once I find more pictures from years past. His wife (I assume) blogs at The Farmers Wife blog.


Map with directions found below.




Double click on map to enlarge. Field is 7 miles from the turnpike ramp in north Lawrence.