The Sunflower Valley — 1014 Piece Art Puzzle

The field has been doing this since before anyone thought to plant it. Row after row of sunflowers turning toward a light that they trust completely, in a valley where the summer has taken up permanent residence. Somewhere at the edge of the frame, the hills go soft and blue in the heat haze and everything smells like warm earth and something sweet.

1014 pieces of high summer and golden abundance — the texture of petals and stems in their thousands, the way the green deepens between rows, the sky above going that particular shade of blue that only exists in late July. A scene built for slow, unhurried assembly.

Some things face the light without being asked.