sunflower field
Terri Webster Schrandt

Sunday Stills Monthly Color Challenge: Are You All-in for #Yellow?

“There is a sun, a light that for want of another word I can only call yellow, pale sulfur yellow, pale golden citron. How lovely yellow is!”
~ Vincent Van Gogh

Welcome to the Sunday Stills Monthly Color Challenge for August. Have you guessed the featured color this month? Yellow! All things yellow are welcomed, no specific theme other than sharing images showing any shade of yellow. Have fun!

Let’s begin with some working photos, partially inspired by last week’s Lens-Artists “work-in-progress” challenge. I bet Anne-Christine was super busy, judging by all the links and comments 😉.

Yellow Works

man driving tractor framed by sunflowers
Farmer Hans framed by our volunteer sunflowers

“True chaos comes from the garden of your soul, where the wildflowers grow.”
~ Matt Baker

yellow safety vests
Yellow safety vests
backhoe ready for work
Backhoe ready for work

Golden Florals

This lovely sunflower is featured in Colleen’s Tanka Tuesday this week! I will share my favorite poems from her challenge next week.

lazy opening of sunflower petals

While we’re on the subject of flowers, check out these yellow flowers.

Dandelion going to seed
Formerly yellow dandelion
mustard flowers and bridge
Mustard flower’s view of the Antioch Bridge in Northern California
Yellow Portland Dahlia
Portland Dahlia

“The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick.”
~ L. Frank Baum

sunflower field
Vast Sunflower Field in South Spokane

“No matter how chaotic it is, wildflowers will still spring up in the middle of nowhere.” ~ Sheryl Crow

Forest floor arrowleaf-balsamroot sunflowers
So. Many. Sunflowers.

While in the Canadian town of Kimberley, British Columbia, two weeks ago, we toured the quaint Cominco Gardens and gawked at all the coneflowers and other beautiful flowers.

Yellow coneflowers adorn Cominco Gardens, Kimberley, BC

Eating Yellow

Seeing all this yellow makes me hungry! We can’t eat our cherry tomatoes and red tomatoes fast enough. I ran some through the food processor and froze them in bags for future sauce or soup.

Sungold cherry tomatoes
Sungold cherry tomato harvest

And not just me, these bees LOVE some sunflower pollen, not to mention the butterflies enjoying some tasty yellow flowers.

3 bees on sunflower
How many bees?
tiny skipjack butterfly
tiny skipjack butterfly
close-up butterfly
Skipjack Butterfly
Yellow swallowtail butterfly
Yellow swallowtail butterfly

“And over it all, the butterflies swarmed, like a million yellow-petalled flowers dancing on swirling winds.” ~ Steven Erikson

sunflower swatch

Inspiring Photo Challenges This Week

Each week I find inspiration from my fellow bloggers’ photo challenges. I enjoy incorporating these into my Sunday Stills weekly themes.

Sunday Stills Photo Challenge Reminders

The Sunday Stills weekly-themed photo challenge is easy to join. You have all week to share and link your post.

  • Remember to title your blog post a little differently than mine.
  • Please create a new post for the theme or link a recent one.
  • Entries for this theme can be posted all week.
  • Tag your post “Sunday Stills.”
  • Don’t forget to create a pingback to this post so that other participants can read your post.
  • I also recommend adding your post’s URL to the comments.

This Week’s Featured Bloggers

Sunday Stills is a wonderful community of bloggers, poets, and photographers who desire to connect with one another. Below are this week’s links from bloggers who shared their photos of anything YELLOW. I add these all week as new links are posted.

I can’t wait to see how you interpret the various shades of YELLOW this week! Join me next week as we explore CELEBRATIONS. Have a fabulous week!

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177 comments

  4. Our North Dakota sunflower fields are in full bloom right now. North Dakota is historically #1 or #2 in sunflower oil and seed production in the United States in any given year. Unfortunately this year, the nearest fields to me are a bit of a drive.

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  16. You have an eye for sunflowers, Terri. They are stunning! Your photography has moved to a new level of professionalism. You’ve got the macros down, the lighting is superb, composition, it’s all there. Wonderful post!

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  19. Now that’s some serious YELLOW Terri!!! I too love sunflowers (I suppose who doesn’t !) but yours are marvelous! Here in the south they’re sometimes used for the in-between years to keep vegetable fields in good shape during off years. I also remember a huge field of them in NC at the Biltmore Mansion one year. Stunning. Loved your post, thanks for joining us!

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  21. Yay – you’ve shared such enchanting choices for showing off the brilliant color of yellow. Hans looked mighty happy driving that tractor in blue that compliments the colors in the volunteer sunflowers. I’d like to get some of those large sunflowers to volunteer in my yard some year. I love that dandelion close-up and the sunflowers with the bees. How did you get such great macros??? I hope your August is going well and the harvest of tomatoes serves you well throughout the winter months! Thanks for the fun color challenge!

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    • Thank you, Shelley! I’m still figuring out where some of our sunnies have come from. WE have three or four giant ones that were not volunteered last year. There a LOT of birds around here and I know two neighbors blocks away that have the domesticated sunflowers in their yards.
      For those close-ups and macros, I use my galaxy note 10+ (still) and just get super close. Luck has a lot to do with it as well as decent lighting 🙂

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      • You’re welcome! I have one sunflower growing in the rocks, but it is only about 8″ tall and I suspect was transplanted there by a bird or a mouse. I’d love to get some huge ones growing like yours sometime. I adore how they rotate the flower blossoms towards the sun. Enjoy yours this year, they are stunning.
        Oh, yes, I forget that many phones and notebooks have great cameras. My daughter’s Samsung has 6 or 7 different cameras and she can zoom in for macros quite well. Your lucky photos are glorious – I think there’s definitely talent involved 😉😊

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      • Thank you, Terri! 20 miles is not bad. I drove 22 miles each way to work for 30 years!!! 😅

        I think the Dahlia festival will begin soon in Canby, one that we missed last year. We’ll join my daughter’s family to go to Enchanted Forest next Sunday. We do have a celebration next weekend.

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      • Oh, Terri! We were going to go to Banff one year for our anniversary but cancelled it due to Covid. Canada couldn’t make up the mind of when to open the border. Our anniversary is on August 19.
        Congratualtions to you and Hans, Terri!

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      • We’ll go eventually, not ready for this year! My daughter will have one more summer trip the weekend of September 1. We’ll join them. I was teaching, so we went to Maui in August to get married and stayed for our honeymoon. Came back to have reception for family and friends afterward. ☺️

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      • The only thing that would cancel our trio to Banff this coming Labor Day week, is if the smoke gets bad. We did the same thing with our wedding 10 years ago–we threw 4 receptions in three different cities, LOL!

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  31. I love your yellows Terri, particularly the sunflowers and bees. I also love to wear yellow and am lucky that my complexion lets me do so, as I know some people just can’t! Your photos of yellow flowers really stand out, I don’t think I know much about the coneflowers but they look bright and beautiful!

    Thanks for the chance to showcase our wonderful Matildas as they forge their way through the Women’s World Cup in their green and gold!

    Go the Matildas – green and gold all the way #SundayStills

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    • Thank you, Debbie! We have so lucky to have these sunflowers and a great climate to enjoy the outdoors 9 months a year (3 if you like snow). Like you I can wear yellow and orange but it much more muted tones.
      I love promoting women’s sports and was so happy to read about their success and the passion you shared about it!

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  33. So love the Dandelion Terri. Hans looks so good on a tractor.
    I heard that Farmer Hans was caught dancing naked in front of his tractor by a neighbour. The neighbour asked “What are you doing Farmer Hans?”
    Farmer Hans answered “I thought our love life just wasn’t the same since our move here, so I saw a therapist.”
    “What did the therapist say?”
    “Well” said Farmer Hans, “the therapist recommended I do something sexy to attracter.” 😁
    My yellows will be along later 🙂

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  45. Lovely sunshiney yellows for a miserable wet day over here ☀ The sunflowers steal the show of course, but that yellow dahlia is a star too 🙂 I’ll probably skip this week as I’ve done yellow in the past and am behind with my challenges!

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  59. Oh my gosh, I don’t usually do Sunday Stills….but I might have to (If I can remember) this time. My sister and I were camping this past week in Canada and all the little towns we drove through had an abundance of yellow brick homes.

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  67. Doesn’t farmer Hans look great driving that tractor, Terri? I hope he was careful not to drive over any of those beautiful sunflowers.

    I tried to find a yellow brick road for you, but it seems to have disappeared since a young girl and her dog were last seen walking down it. I hope they make it back safely. Maybe Hans could give them a lift back on his tractor (if he’s going that way?).

    Our poor yellow flowers have been bashed by the British summer – wind and rain. They’re not looking their best, so here’s something else instead.

    Hope you like it.

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    • First off, I love this yellow bicycle, Hugh! I see more of those used as decoration. Hans loved driving the tractor. It was borrowed and is quite ancient, but helped Hans move and spread the 11 yards of new gravel for our driveway. Some neighbors just moved out of state so Hans bought their John Deer riding mower that sports several accessories we can use for our “farm.” LOL! Sorry to hear about the dreary UK weather. We hit 102F again today, and the air is smoky! Even the air is yellow 😦

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      • 102F is way too hot for me, Terri. Thank goodness we’ve had nothing near those temperatures this summer. I’ll stick with the wind and rain, thank you.
        I hope you get to have a go on the mower too.

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  81. Terri,
    We’re on the road, and I’m late getting to my favorite blogs. I hope to do better. I love all your pictures but am drawn to the big yellow Dahlia. We grow them, and that is a fine specimen for sure. My contribution is a little dandelion–every state’s runner-up for the state flower. Have a great weekend. Joe

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  85. What a sunshine-y cheerful collection of yellow flowers! Daisies and their lookalikes are among my favorites. I grew especially fond of Black-Eyed Susans during the years we lived in Maryland, and the state flower self-seeded in my yard! I didnt mind it one bit!

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