Sunflowers

Can you believe how tall our sunflowers have gotten this year? We have really enjoyed watching them grow this summer. Next year I plan on having a grow chart in our nature journal. It would be fun to measure a sunflower of the course of the summer.
Maybe we'll even get around to planting a sunflower house! It would be quite magical to step inside of a house made of these giants!
As for that pink flamingo in the picture~~~hopefully he will fly south for the winter and not return. Somehow he keeps taking center stage in the garden. The kids must love him much more than me!