Sunflower Ready to Show its Stuff

New Sunflower Head Growing on the Stalk

Sunflower is about ready to explode open. 

Sunflower

I love sunflowers.  While celebrating Independence Day, we visited a local hotel with a kitchen garden (more on that later).  There were plenty of sunfowers.  I loved the closer look at this one revealing a bee busy at work.

Only Mother Nature Can Paint Like This!

If you are in a decorating mode and someone says stick to a natural palette, you most likely think of browns, taupes, beiges. But Mother Nature is a bit more inventive with her natural colors. Look at the vivid, screaming tones of these sunflowers. AMAZING.

And look how effectively these sunflowers camouflage the two bees collecting pollen.

Sunflower

This sunflower is slowly opening its face to the world.

Sunflower Volunteer

In a funny conincidence, I am sitting at my computer and looking out the window at a volunteer flower. It is a sunflower. I cannot imagine how it got here. I planted sunflowers two years ago in my back garden, which is quite a distance from where this plant is. Nonetheless, I will enjoy watching it from my window on a hillside which is mostly shrubs and trees.

Early Blooming Sunflower

This sunflower is a volunteer. Since it essentially planted itself, it got an early start. Therefore, an early bloom.

P.S. Can you find the knuckle? It's there at the bottom of the photo.