I often walk across Palmer St. on my way downtown. The gardens are great from spring till autumn.
Today I came across the tallest sunflower I've seen this summer. This one has not even flowered yet, so it will be taller still before the weight of its flower causes the whole to stoop.

Short of being rude, door-knocking, and dragging some poor soul away from their holiday activities I could think of no decent way to convey the height of this beautiful creature. As is plain, even when photographed from my feet the sunflower towers at least two heads over me.