**Second field is blooming** Pick your own sunflowers to support St. Jude

Starting a new thread as someone had mentioned to maybe do so. So here it is.

We saw our first bloom yesterday — we expect that they’ll continue to bloom for roughly 3 weeks .. peak should be in 10/14 days but it’s just a guesstimate.


From my previous posts:

“It’s in Kaplan, Louisiana. We plant once our rice is planted as my husband has time. It’s typically 3 or 4 acres of old fashioned sunflowers .. thigh height with the right conditions.

It’s a pick your own, just visit, bring a chair/blanket and sit and stay a while. It’s donation based .. with whatever amount one chooses.

If by chance you have Facebook (yeah I know) we have a group called Sunflowers for St. Jude!!! (All of the !!! are part of the name)

This will be our 8th year of doing it”


“It sure makes us happy!! I am out there just about every evening when they're blooming .. I love to meet our visitors and find out where they're from, where they heard about us, etc.

Some come because they love sunflowers.
Some come because they love St. Jude.
We've got some who come just to sit and in their words "visit with God".
Last year I saw a few ladies on separate occasions walk up to the field and legit cry.
Last year, we also had a girl and her horse visit -- she was in a contest for "Next Top Trainer" or something like that and wanted pics of her bronco that she broke in a field of "wildflowers" .. they aren't exactly wildflowers BUT they sure were beautiful photos.
We also have a shite ton of nature photographers who come out.

We've also had many local St. Jude patients (past as well as current) come as well. It's typically hot as hell but last year we added benches (they're so crude and heavy but someone made them for us and I was thankful) and will add hopefully a few more this year.”