Second-time-around

By Skysea7

Just a few sunflowers

The owners of this field took their first venture this year into growing sunflowers to make sunflower oil.  To their surprise all the plants grew!  Then there was chaos on the small roads surrounding the field as cars stopped to look!  

So, being very enterprising, the owners had a 'Sunflower Open Weekend' for this weekend.  They used the village school car park and issued online timed tickets, so everyone would be able to park and the roads wouldn't be clogged.  This August I've given up trying to get to a beach because of so many tourists filling up the car parks. At least using the timed ticket system I knew there would be no problems parking.  The booked online tickets were FREE!  The owners just asked for a donation at the gate.  The sunflowers were amazing - the only problem was that I couldn't get a view from a greater height so I could see the whole expanse of the field.  If I parked on the road, which is higher, I would get a better view!  I didn't today but.......

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