gifts of the garden

I just love love love the 'Evening Sun' sunflowers we planted this year.

The bees evidently share my infatuation. Or maybe it's just that most of our flowers aren't big enough for several visitor at once.

This is shaping up to be our prize pumpkin for the year. We orded seeds from Johnny's Selected Seeds and they've all been such a treat. This variety is the 'Rouge vif d'Etampes', the red Cinderella-carriage shaped pumpkin.