Shining Bright in August

Pachiko is not good with summer.
I am not good with the heat, but more than anything, I am not good with things that shine brightly.
I was born on a day that was unusually hot for October, in the middle of the day, and despite that, I am not good with heat and light.
I prefer dim, cool places.

And yet, I mistakenly chose sunflowers.
At first, the composition was to scatter sunflowers across the screen as usual, but no matter how many times I drew them, they didn't look like sunflowers.
When I thought about it, sunflowers mean those striped seeds, bird food, and something I should diligently buy at the home center.
If I forget to buy them, it's a disaster.
However, since my last cockatiel passed away five years ago, I haven't seen sunflowers as seeds for a long time.
For a moment, I thought about lining up seeds all over, but that doesn't feel like summer.
I had no choice but to search for sunflowers on the internet.

That was when Pachiko finally learned how sunflower flowers bloom.
For Pachiko, who is knowledgeable about plants, this is a rare thing.
I must really be bad with summer.

Sunflowers.
They are a collection of small flowers.
I knew that, but I didn't know specifically what that "middle part" was like.
My mom told me, "That's the seed part," so I had always thought that the flowers bloomed at the edges and the seeds gradually moved toward the center.
(Note: Pachiko is good at natural science; she knows the ecology of most plants unusually well)
However, that leaves the question of what is in the center at the beginning.
As proof that it's not empty, something exists even at the beginning of blooming, and if the seeds moved to the center, where would those things go? Thinking about it that way, it doesn't add up.

That's a bud, Pachiko-san.
It seems that when the petal part opens, only the outer part with petals has bloomed.
From there, flowers without petals gradually bloom toward the inside.
First, the stamens.
When the stamens have released all their pollen, the pistils begin to grow.
The pistils are pollinated and become seeds.
It seems that it is roughly divided into stages: "bud," "stamen," "pistil," and "post-bloom."
It seems that the subtle color differences in the center occur during the process of moving from the outside to the center.
This may depend on the variety, but the buds are still a yellow close to green.
The stamens are a dark yellow with pollen.
When they become pistils, they seem to look dark brown.

They aren't seeds!
So, as a result of seriously learning about the seeds, or rather the bud parts, this month's illustration turned out like this.

It would be more accurate if the spiral had a bit more of an incline, but please pretend you didn't see that mathematical part (because it's hot).
(No one will care about that... but I also want to try drawing it with proper calculations... but I won't because it's hot... I'm going to Hyrule)

There are also postcards.

Here is this month's masking tape.
You are welcome to take the image home and use it by lining it up.

A watermelon that isn't 'what are you talking about'.
That, too, is already 'what are you talking about'.

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The circle drawing is scheduled to be released tomorrow.

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The circle drawing in question is here

It's sweltering...