Photographic Memory

Judi Birnberg’s picture of sunflowers near Poitiers, France (Best Shot, May 25) brought back fond memories of two summers I spent in France going to school. If we knew in what direction she was facing when she snapped the shot, we would know what time of day it was, dusk or dawn.

I remember driving from Paris early in the day, and every flower in every field would be facing one way and turning another on my way back to town later. The French word for sunflower is tournesol, literally translated as “turn sun.”

DOREEN LORAND

Downey