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Sunflowers in Wirt County, West Virginia

The author harvest sunchoke roots in a Summers County pasture.

Bonnie Taylor stopped to document a garden of giant sunflowers in Wirt County.

As sunflower captures the radiance of the sun itself near Shinnston, West Virginia.

Sunflowers blossom on Fenwick Mountain.

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