{"id":1022,"date":"2009-07-27T22:03:28","date_gmt":"2009-07-28T02:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nanosphoto.com\/blog\/?p=1022"},"modified":"2009-07-27T22:03:28","modified_gmt":"2009-07-28T02:03:28","slug":"sunflowers-at-buttonwood-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/sunflowers-at-buttonwood-farm\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunflowers at Buttonwood Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 10px;\" title=\"sunflower\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nanosphoto.com\/gallery\/albums\/wpw-20090728\/thumb_20090727-_MG_2841.jpg?resize=150%2C100\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" \/>Today my wife called me at the office about doing something after work today with the kids.\u00a0 A friend of hers told her about a place out in Griswold, CT that literally acres and acres of sunflowers.\u00a0 I figured it would be a nice cap to the day, so she made sandwiches and I met her and the girls out there after work for a little picnic before we went out into the sunflower fields.\u00a0 Plus, all the proceeds from the sunflower stuff was going to a worthy cause.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->We met up at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buttonwoodfarmicecream.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Buttonwood Farm<\/a> in Griswold, CT for our picnic and sunflower shooting.\u00a0 After we ate, we decided to take the hayride, which is part of their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunflowersforwishes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sunflowers for Wishes<\/a> program &#8211; a benefit for the Make-a-Wish Foundation.\u00a0 The ride was well worth the $5 a head, and will be continuing for the rest of the week.\u00a0 If you&#8217;re in the area, I&#8217;d suggest heading out there and checking it out.\u00a0 That, and the ice cream is pretty good too&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>OK, here&#8217;s the photos from the trip.\u00a0 Sorry, no trains today&#8230;busy day at the office&#8230;<\/p>\n[cpg_album:580]\n<p>Thanks for looking!<br \/>\nTom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today my wife called me at the office about doing something after work today with the kids.\u00a0 A friend of hers told her about a place out in Griswold, CT that literally acres and acres of sunflowers.\u00a0 I figured it would be a nice cap to the day, so she made sandwiches and I met [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[14,303,304,305,306],"class_list":{"0":"post-1022","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-nature-photography","7":"tag-connecticut","8":"tag-farm","9":"tag-flower","10":"tag-griswold","11":"tag-hayride","12":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}