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 photographer's own favorite sunflower photos and a miscellany of quotations, poetry, short stories, and trivia about those magnificent flowers.