Every year I plant sunflowers up at the barn and every year, the parrot flock seems to know exactly when the seeds are ripe enough to eat.

This year, thanks to a surge in the gopher populace, I didn't plant, but it seems the parrots did. All along the road here, beneath some of the parrots' favorite perches (in one end, out the other) clumps of sunflowers grow.

Pretty. And pretty funny.