Speaking of sunflowers.....

Nothing is more uplifting than a field of sunflowers. Unfortunately, I seem to be able to grow only one each year, no matter how many seeds I plant. Think some of my backyard tenents have been able to find the seeds before they germinate. This beauty grew in the garden last year and it was nearly eight feet tall. When it died off in the fall, I left the stalk where it stood, as a monument to sunflowers.