Sunflowers

Sunflowers are starting to bloom by the freeways. They will continue until the first hard frost. These are not the industrial plants with one thick stem and a single huge bloom. Instead, they have branched stems that bend in the wind and many smaller flowers. Though even a small sunflower is pretty big. I think they may be my favorite flowers, though I love lilacs in the spring, and peonies are pretty good too.