Sunflower stalk
Stalk of a sunflower, Helianthus annuus.
But it isn’t just the flowers of the sunflower that attract me, whether fresh or fading: here a flower head is relegated to an indistinct patch of yellow visible through the notch of the branching plant in the foreground. How could I not be attracted to this rough beauty, with its alternating regions of chartreuse and maroon, and its white hairs that are coarser than my own?
© 2011 Steven Schwartzman
Portraits of Wildflowers 
I am with you, this is gorgeous.
Tammie
June 23, 2011 at 5:27 PM
Thanks for the company, Tammie.
Steve Schwartzman
June 23, 2011 at 5:36 PM
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