Visit to the tell and nice picture

Today, I visited the tell as part of field trip of Bar-Ilan University students to sites in Philistia. We spent about 4 and 1/5 hours on site and managed to cover a very nice amount of the major issues and finds relating to the site.
In general, the site is in great shape and the various areas show very little, if at all signs of “wear and tear” from the last time I visited. Also, due to the fact that it was a relatively dry winter, there are not a lot thorns and thistles in the excavation areas, which will make it much easier for the team when we begin working in July.
At the very end of the visit, after finishing a visit to Area C6 and portion of the siege system in the eastern side of the site, we walked by a really nice field of sunflowers that were in full bloom, just to the east of tell, right under Areas E and A.
See here some very nice pictures of this.