Sunflowers

One of my most frequent gardening laments is about how hard it is to grow the things I'm trying to grow, but how easy it is to grow weeds. This spring, however, I have a lovely border of sunflowers that I didn't plant. Last spring, I planted sunflower seeds nearby, only to have a monsoon a few days later that washed everything away--there was six inches of standing (and flowing) water where I'd just planted seeds. So maybe the seeds landed a few feet away, waited a year, then came up this spring. Or, more likely, the chipmunks or squirrels or blue jays buried the seeds there some time this winter (after getting them from the feeder in our backyard). Either way, they make me smile every morning.