basil blooming

“Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don’t they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.”  ~ Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

 

signs of spring

It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want—oh, you don’t quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so! ~ Mark Twain

poppy spice

Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don’t they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers. ~ Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

sleeping on the job

When I first noticed this bee, I thought he was dead.  He stayed in the same position pretty much all day.  Every time I went back to check on him, he hadn’t moved.  I was about to less-than-ceremoniously flick him off into the dirt.  And then he woke up and went back to work.

working overtime

I posted a similar picture back in March, but I had a lot of pictures of bees by the time the citrus blossoms had fallen to the ground, exhausted, drained of their pollen.  It was the end of the feeding frenzy and this little guy was working overtime to get the job done.  Our once buzzing trees are silent  again until next winter.  I’ll miss their beautiful hum.