Summer Buds and Blooms........

I found having the sun to my back helped to get a good shot of this kind of sunflower.  In my past tries it was so dark that I couldn't really capture the center of the bloom. I knew that this special kind of sunflower put out these colors but I didn't know it was going to have multiple stems with blooms on the end of them. From this photo I count five buds all in different stages of maturity.  The plant itself is half the height of the mammoth ones that are the common sunflower.