That's Special

These days, if you head out of Ancona, for a Festa della Sangria say, or to go to the beach, it's unavoidable that you'll pass numerous and frequent fields of sunflowers. They're beautiful. Turned to the sun, a yellow area rug on the sides of hills, at the base of hills, in between fields of wheat, showing off their color next to the greens and browns of the other crops. In the next couple of weeks they'll begin to turn brown and ugly as they are left to die and dry before being harvested and turned into oil. But for now, it's an incredible sight, faces turned to the sun, brilliant and eye catching. A blanket of yellow from a distance and then thousands of individual flowers, singular then blurred and tall as you zip past.




My friend Niky (Nicoletta Pasquini), an amazing photographer, has unknowingly donated the next two images and there a whole bunch of other great pictures on her website.




And while on the subject of things that are special, this is a special four minutes.