Another sunshine day

Driving towards Bergerac on the last day of of our sunshine week in the Dordogne we had our last chance to capture one of these wonderful fields of sunflowers. During the the week I'd tried a number of times but it's actually quite tricky to find a field where they are obligingly facing towards you, waiting to be blipped. This time we were in luck: Mr MC was able to stop the car when asked (which often he can't - not safe apparently) and even obliged by taking this shot from the car window so I didn't have to stand in the middle of the road to take it!
I may backblip a few more holiday shots - depends on time this week - note to self: must sort out a way to upload to blip whilst on holiday.

Most flowerheads on a field of blooming sunflowers are turned towards the east, where the sun rises each morning (hence the sunflower's Spanish name girasol, and its French name tournesol). Immature sunflowers in the bud stage exhibit heliotropism; on sunny days the bud tracks the sun on its journey along the sky from east to west, while at night or at dawn it returns to its eastward orientation.