Sunflowers

I drove up to Yolo County California, the farming areas between Davis and Woodland, where I had been told I would find fields of sunflowers. Normally you would find fields of sunflowers, but this year there is a drought. I actually saw field after field of browned, dried up, sorry looking sunflower failures. The ground was dried up clay as hard as concrete. This is the reality of the drought for the farmers in this part of California - dead fields and millions of lost cash crop dollars. Very sad.

After about an hour, and half a dozen such fields, I decided to give up and come home. Just as I was about to turn onto the highway, I saw this field of yellow to my left. This farmer had irrigation. What a difference water makes.