Sunflower View

As the sun passes overhead day by day and summer marches on into August, new things keep appearing in the garden. This week it was the first sunflowers.

I've always liked how sunflower blossoms follow the sun across the sky.

Because of the way we planted our sunflowers along the north side of our community garden plot, they seem to be keeping watch over the garden.

They get to watch the peppers begin to fruit, the tomatoes turn red, the beans climb, the squash run, and the corn reaching for the sky.

But most immediately, they are keeping watch over their smaller cousins, the zinnias, as they bloom at their feet.