The Sun Also Rises

The fields of sunflowers about 30 minutes from where I live are amazing to see. Every year I go through the crops to get reference for paintings. These sunflowers are not planted for their prettiness, but as crops with the emphasis on the seeds, not the petals. They are beautiful in a different way, still following the sun, still velvet leaves and bright yellow petals, with the whole of the field as its vase.