Gone, Baby, Gone

These lovely Earthwalker sunflowers are gone.  Yes , gone.  Some creature(s) pushed them over and ate them, the flowers, the seeds, everything except the very sturdy stalk.  I do believe that raccoons have struck again.  I have taken drastic measures (caging peapods, human hair among the peppers, cayenne pepper powder sprinkled everywhere) to protect the rest of my garden, but they have eaten the kinds of things they like--the pastries of the garden, so to speak--so I hope they will leave the rest. The flowers were looking fabulous with their warm colors and branching habit with multiple flowers per branch.  I guess they were tasty, too.