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Digitally textured and designed from an original photograph I took at our local farmer's market here in Kamloops.
Although it was commonly accepted that the sunflower was first domesticated in what is now the Southeastern US, roughly 5000 years ago,there is evidence that it was first domesticated in Mexico around 3578B.C.E. These crops were found in Tabasco, Mexico at the San Andre�s dig site. The earliest known examples in the United States of a fully domesticated sunflower have been found in Tennessee, and date to around 2300 BC. Many indigenous American peoples used the sunflower as the symbol of their solar deity, including the Aztecs and the Otomi of Mexico and the Incas in South America. In 1510 early Spanish explorers encountered the sunflower in the Americas and carried its seeds back to Europe. Of the four plants known to have been domesticated in what is now the continental United States to have become an important agricultural commodity, sunflower is currently the mos...

This is a link to my Fine Art America page specifically setup for my U.S. clients. Some items on FAA (basic prints and canvases) are also fulfilled by Canadian printers without additional cross-border shipping charges so if you are in Canada and want the convenience of this service, give FAA a try. 30 day money back guarantee.My intention for the viewer and potential buyer: enjoy looking! **NEW NOTICE FAA enlarger square will pixelate some of my images (taken from an older camera with film), because FAA sets the enlarger at 200% magnification. If this occurs, the image will not be printed at the enlargement size that may show pixels. .... and perhaps one of my images will catch your heart or make a connection to something vital in your...