Searching for Sun -- flowers, that is

Written Monday night:

Dear Family,

Zing and I drove to the small town of Winters this afternoon, searching for sunflowers. I went there last August to meet friends (Susan! Carol!), and in my memory sunflowers lined the roads, but I think they were gone to seed. So now, a month earlier,  they’d be in their prime, right? But no sunflowers met us today. Maybe they grow and die quickly or maybe I took the wrong road. I’m still searching. 

Winters is a bright, hot little place, and I’m glad we went. 

Written Tuesday night:

Today Zing and I found our sunflowers — on a straight, empty country road in Yolo County,* near Winters, where we searched in vain yesterday. These flowers are bigger than the ones you buy in the grocery store or flower stall — each one about half the length of Zing. And, no, I didn’t take even one! But I did stop at Safeway to buy a bunch on the way home.

*I learned that Yolo County provides seeds for cultivation around the world. 

Love,

k

Winters, CA: Across the street from,City Hall

Yolo County sunflower field. I am facing west, and the flowers are turned east

Sunflower Dog