Sunflowers Photos Facts and Fictions Author:Leland Dirks In the middle of a glorious nowhere, there is a valley ? the North American continent?s largest alpine valley ? where a hermit and his canine friends live. Surrounded by mountains, when summer comes, another sort of magic visits the valley: wildflowers, including the common sunflower, Helianthus Annuus. This book is a collection of the hermit ph... more »otographer's own favorite sunflower photos and a miscellany of quotations, poetry, short stories, and trivia about those magnificent flowers.« less