Cycling around the Hampshire countryside as I have been since we moved back to the UK, I have seen some lovely scenes. One afternoon, I was riding along a road and came upon a field full of sunflowers. They looked stunning in the afternoon light, and I resolved to come back and take a photo. However, I did not realise how important the timing could be. A week later I was back and, while the heads of the flowers were still in place, the colour had really gone out of the flowers. They didn’t look terrible, but they were nowhere near as impressive as they had been the week before. Will I remember next year?