Leland lives in an off-grid home he built in the middle of a beautiful nowhere known as Colorado's San Luis Valley. His canine companions - Angelo, Maggie, and Misty - make sure that he gets out and about to photograph the majesty of this place.

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.