31 October 2015

Honey bee

A large clump of flowering arum lilies at the front of the terrace has been attracting myriad insects of a great variety. Honey bees have been working the flowers enthusiastically; getting a decent photograph has been an exercise in frustration.



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4 comments:

Zhoen said...

"The lunch counter is now open... ."

1 November 2015 at 01:25
pohanginapete said...

... and the customers were flooding in...

2 November 2015 at 20:39
Lisa said...

Pete, I came across this quote today, from Annie Dillard, and it reminded me of your photographs on this blog:

The mockingbird took a single step into the air and dropped. His wings were still folded against his sides as though he were singing from a limb and not falling, accelerating thirty-two feet per second, through empty air. Just a breath before he would have been dashed to the ground, he unfurled his wings with exact, deliberate care, revealing the broad bars of white, spread his elegant, white-banded tail, and so floated onto the grass. I had just rounded a corner when his insouciant step caught my eye; there was no one else in sight. The fact of his free fall was like the old philosophical conundrum about the tree that falls in the forest. The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.

6 November 2015 at 02:53
pohanginapete said...

Thank you, Lisa :-)

8 November 2015 at 11:55

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