We spent most of the day clearing sunflowers, tall grasses, trees and black bamboo used to block the view of the houses we had torn down. Now that they are down we are clearing out most of the tall stuff so that we will have an unobstructed view of the cleared property, cottonwoods and Sandias.
We left some of the Mammoth sunflowers and other fancy ones. I noticed a bumblebee, other bees and beetles were all sharing the same sunflower. The first Monarch I’ve seen this year fluttered around me and then landed just long enough for me to get a photo before it took flight again and disappeared over the bamboo.
Off Center & Not Even 
I can imagine how hard you worked today, and then how much you must have enjoyed relaxing on the deck with your ‘new’ view.
The photographs, as always, are wonderful.
Actually, we discovered some nice eggplant ready to pick in the garden after clearing out the morning glories and sunflowers, so I cooked up an eggplant casserole with home made tomato sauce, fresh herbs from the garden and combination of pepper jack, sharp cheddar and special white cheddar cheeses. The casserole is out of this world. Unfortunately, by the time the casserole was finished baking, it was too late to set out on the deck. I made fresh green chile salsa with the left over tomato sauce.
Yumm on both accounts 🙂
The sunflower pics are very artistic and beautiful!
What beautiful photos these are; I love all of them.