Creative Captions: Aug. 31

It was plain to see that readers had Kansas on their minds this week. References to the Wizard of Oz and Kansas fields of sunflowers (We’re back in Kansas, Toto) abounded in this week’s caption contest. Other favorites from this week’s nearly 110 entries:

This child is from the land of the rising sun . . . flower.

Charles Kramer, Lincoln

Look, Mom, I am petalling, and without a bike.

Dick Schell, Omaha

I may not be a superhero, but I do have flower power.

Sydney Piccolo, sixth grade, Golden Hills Elementary School, Bellevue

And to think I just learned to spit sunflower seeds last year.

Linda Kramer, Carter Lake

Sitting pretty.

Dawn Dean, Lake City, Iowa

Lily! Where are you?

Mark Riggle, via e-mail

There’s the prettiest flower in the whole patch!

Janyce Warneke, Plainview

So that’s where she gets her sunny disposition!

Richard Thies, Omaha

Marco? Marco!

Emma Munger, eighth grade, St. Albert School, Council Bluffs

He loves me ... He loves me not ...

Robert Balash, Bellevue; Wanda Taylor and Mary Jackson, Omaha

Oh boy, where did I put that GPS?

Hannah Flaugh, seventh grade, Coleridge Community School

The eyes have it.

Maxine Wright, Omaha

Sunflower fields, forever.

Larry and Judy Park, La Vista

A rose amidst the daisies.

Arlene Sheely, Council Bluffs

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