Global Warming: Now it's personal.

[kevyn]

I'm a Kansas Boy, born in the land of the People of the South Wind. I'm a Prairie Faerie, from the home where the Buffalo Roam, and the Deer and the Antelope Play (yes it is the state song). Like Dorothy, I know what a tornado looks like. (If you crack an Oz joke, I'll drop a house on you!)

And cliché as it may sound, my favourite flower is the sunflower. Big, tall, strong, yummy, and cheerfully yellow tastefully surrounding a large brown centre. I have fond memories as a child being down below the wild sunflowers which towered over me then. (Even now, at my adult height of 2m, I am still shorter than some Kansas Sunflowers).

Kansas is the Sunflower State. And though I no longer live in the land of my birth -- and have no intention of returning -- I still love the Kansas Sunflowers.

And now they may be going away.

*sigh*

Comments

[bearhedded.livejournal.com]

With the bees being killed off by cellphones, I'm not sure you need to worry so much about sunflower migration, as survival!

[kevynjacobs.livejournal.com]

Survival is... mostly out of my hands. If we are responsible for the bees dying off, and it kills us, that sucks.

But I'm still sad about the Kansas sunflowers. It's like losing a piece of my identity to climate change.

[kadyg.livejournal.com]

I think a sunflower field is going to sprout in the open area across the street from me. The news about the cottonwood trees going the same way makes me sad too. It will completely wipe out the state forest.