Whoa! Sunflowers!

I came back from a two week visit to Oregon and the monsoon rains had super-charged the volunteer sunflowers.  I find that I'm even too lazy to put black oil sunflower seeds into a bird feeder these days...so just let these guys go to seed and watch the birds enjoy them while I do dishes at the kitchen sink.  I didn't realize it, but the little yellow finches even enjoy eating the leaves...

 

Some of these guys are 10 feet tall...I'm going to have to whack back a bit and add to the compost pile if I want to be able to hang out my laundry.