This morning, after playing a million “WhichisEnglish” games (okay, sliiiiight exaggeration, there!), I stopped procrastinating and got to work. On my translation. After all, I do have a deadline! But boyohboy it’s a hard one. And I don’t know beans about accounting…But never mind. Somehow I’ll manage. I’m a hardheaded gal. 😉

In spite of the prolonged drought and this tremendous heat, my sunflower in the back yard keeps on blooming. It’s huge. I really should give it a nickname, something like “Mightybig.” I mean, it’s now taller than I am…taller than Stefano, in fact.

But today’s photo is of my OTHER sunflower, the short, slender and slightly askew one in the front yard. This little gal doesn’t get much sun compared to Mightybig…And, in fact, until last week I didn’t think this little thing would manage to bloom at all. But then I noticed a teeny tiny bud. And, a couple of days ago, there it was…

A little sunflower…my heroic, stubborn little sunflower…