Black Sunflowers
- On October 24, 2011
- By Elder Bailey
- category Travel Experiences
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We drove by several fields of sunflowers on our way to and from both Zalaegerszeg and Kaposvar each week. We curiously watched to see when the sunflowers would be harvested, and how they would do it.
We were amazed that they waited to harvest the sunflowers only after they had turned black. The fields all looked like they contained nothing but wilting, withering dead plants. After seeing the bright yellow and green sunflowers as they were maturing, it was haunting to see them turn into dark skeletons.
Then in late September a large combine swept through each of the fields, and collected the millions of sunflower seeds (along with the rest of the plant).
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