“A sunflower field is like a sky with a thousand suns.”
Corina
Abdulahm-Negura
Once
again it was time to take our yearly trip to the mountains and this
year decided to bring our granddaughters, Azzy, Bella, and Mary to
see Burts Pumpkin Farm, Amicalola Falls, and Fausetts beautiful
Sunflower Farm. Joe and I had come here last year, and we were
impressed by how beautiful Fausett Sunflowers were so we wanted our
grands to be able to see it this year.
Our
three hour drive, with three very anxious and excited little girls
felt very long for the girls who wanted out of the car to run. They
asked the usual questions, “Are we there yet?” We were all happy
when we started seeing the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains in the
distance and soon after arrived in rural Dawsonville, Georgia. We
pulled into Fausett Farms Sunflowers and paid the $5 a person fee to
walk the land and take some great pictures. Under 5 years old are
free and if you are a professional photographer it will cost you $35.
You can even bring your horse if you like for miles of trails for
$10 a horse.
After
parking, Joe walked up to the field ahead of me with the girls. They
took off as soon as they reached the first row and disappeared in the
tall sunflowers. By the time I caught up with them, the girls were
simply gone. We couldn’t see them but we could hear them in the
distance. They were running down the rows of the sunflowers as fast
as they could. They found a little bit of Heaven in this field. As
we walked around viewing the beautiful flowers, the girls ran off
some of their extra energy.
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| Tire playground |
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Mary, Bella, and Azzy
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Azzy
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| Bella - pure joy. |
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Our group
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Azzy
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We
walked around the field and took many pictures of this beautiful sun
kissed field. We loved how they had tractors strategically placed
around the farm for the girls to pose on. We walked all around the
blooming fields and saw the other fields off in the distance, that
would be soon blooming that were located closer to the mountains.
When we got to the back of the field, there were large tires set up
for the girls to play. The girls enjoyed playing there and getting
up on another tractor set up.
This
farm has been family owned since 1858 and was a poultry farm for 60
years. They stopped raising chickens in 2011. Now this amazing
property with the mountains in the background offer 900,000
sunflowers on 30 plus gorgeous acres. This year the planted
different fields to bloom at different times during the fall which
will extended their season greatly.
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The three musketeers.
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Lovely Mary
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Mary
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Beautiful Bella
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Awesome Azzy
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Three makes trouble.
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Best Pop Pop and our driver for the day.
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This
is a great place to take the kids and to get amazing pictures of
these sunny flowers. It is a wonderful place to visit and we
recommend all to come and visit. It makes for a fun time.
Till
next time. Bye for now.
