Well winter has now struck us with a vengeance and its not even June yet. It's cold and blustery with sweeping showers and not at all pleasant to be out in for long without sufficient weather-proofing and thermal fortification.
Sunflowers to the rescue!! I am not not sure where they were grown but if locally then it would have to be the tail end of the growing season. In any case they remind us of summer even though it has flown north for the winter.
Photo: Robert Rath, '366 Days of 2012, Day 146 - Winter Sunshine'. 4 secs at f/4.0 ISO 200 100mm