#PrayersFromMaria

Vincent Van Gogh painted sunflowers in Arles France. These are in Avon Ohio, and are grown for the charity, Prayers from Maria. This is the 4th year, next to interstate 90, and the field is shrinking. Large stores are being built in the flat agricultural fields. This year it was 35 acres (2 million flowers). It had been 80. This year, the sunflowers are a short variety, Daytona.

 a bridge in the sunflowers

 Captain America investigates a certain sunflower

For those who are interested in botany and mathematics and art, you converge on sunflowers. The florets (hat the bees love) turn into seeds, and they form a tight pattern to collect the most sunlight. That pattern (in the vast majority of individual flowers) is a Fibonnaci spiral. One set (on each flower) runs clockwise, and another anti-clockwise. The totals are usually Fibonnaci pairs(1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144...):  34&55, 55&89, 89&144.

Watching day to day the steady change [click]. The florets bloom, and the seeds form, from outward towards the center. There is the additional outside large coronal petals.