Ptah. Did you see this?

[Tuesday Afternoon]

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/10/04/greene.wyatt.sunflower/index.html

On the morning of last year's annual Sunflower Fair in La Porte, Indiana, a family, appearing a little lost, walked up and down a crowded street, looking in vain for the table to sign up their entry. They carried a large sunflower with them.

If no one noticed the exhausted, grieving look in the family's eyes, that was understandable. The Sunflower Fair is a place of happy noise: rides and music and food booths. It is La Porte's fall festival, and people from across northwest Indiana come to spend a Saturday in the midst of the milling, chattering crowds.

The family silently bearing the large sunflower had never been to the fair before.

But this was important.

They finally located the entry table, and asked for a form. They carefully filled it out. Their flower was entered in the seed head category -- the one that judges the largest seed head, which is the circular area in the middle of a sunflower.

rest of story at above link.

there is a thread in GD.

on edit: link to thread....
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6694677

[Ptah]

1. Now I have. Thanks, Tuesday Afternoon.

:cry:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

2. sad

:hug:

[Ptah]

3. Yes, sad. The seeds from his flower will probably thrive

[Tuesday Afternoon]

6. Are sunflowers like Roses in that one can start a new one and name it?

It would be nice to give a sunflower his name............

[rbnyc]

4. Thanks. Alone in the house. Son is at Grandmas. Can't stop crying.

I don't know how they did it. All I know how to say is god bless them.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

5. yes

:hug:

[WillParkinson]

7. Wow...

How very sad.

And what a cute boy he was. And what an honor it was to read his story.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

8. yes, an honor, indeed

:)

[Dystopian]

9. Bittersweet...

I'm in tears again...
Amazing and beautiful child and parents..
Thank you for sharing this....

It served to put my own strife of life in perspective....:hug:

peace~

[Tuesday Afternoon]

10. perspective....yes.

good to see you Dystopian :hug:

[applegrove]

11. What a story. RIP Wyatt