Showing posts with label Bumble Bees. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bumble Bees. Show all posts

29 October 2009

Fall Blooms....


There are certain things that just make you smile.
Fall Blooms,
who wouldn't smile at this bee
climbing all over the excessive pollen found on this
Camellia blossom?
Just the idea of scurrying from one bloom to another...
gathering the stocks that help survival
through the winter
months...
Isn't that what we would be doing if
we weren't so spoiled by all the
"creature comforts" of living in modern society?
Don't
get
me
wrong...
I
love,
love,
love,
said comforts...
Really I do.
But
I also
have a sort of primal
reaction to fall.
One where I have the impulse to
reorganize,
gather,
store,
maybe even...
hoard...
(hard to admit that...)
But I think it must be
stored deep within our DNA
that instinct to prepare for the
cold months.
What do you think?

30 March 2009

While sitting on the back deck....

I noticed Bumble Bees....
Many.
Dozens, even....
hovering like intoxicated aliens...
clinging to each other in a drunken jitterbug...
Guess this is spring....
Pollen covers almost every surface....
chainsaws are carving out the dead wood in the distance.
Dogs moan and howl each time a firetruck passes
with sirens squealing...
Mockingbirds mimicking car alarms....
children giggle and race each other home from the bus stop...
cherry blossoms dance across the parking lot...
Silently, high above a red tailed hawk ride the air currents,
perhaps to pluck off the pesky squirrels that steal from my bird feeder.
more dogs...
leaf blowers....
children...
It's almost dinner time.