It’s the middle of December and we still have a few sunflowers

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We’ve had a bunch of cloudy weather in the past couple of weeks, and I don’t like shooting into a gray or white sky, but here’s a picture of a wild sunflower, Helianthus annuus, that was part of a group I saw yesterday morning behind the Wendy’s on US 183 in my northwest Austin neighborhood. Imagine that: sunflowers on December 15.

© 2012 Steven Schwartzman