When picking up the mail earlier in the week (obviously not from today, since we’re still cloudy, cold, windy, and awaiting the snow level to drop just a BIT more) I noticed that the plant at the base of the mailbox has bloomed purple all over the place again.
It seems early, but there seems to be a lot of that going around the planet this year. I just remember from previous years that when these things bloom, the bees start showing up again.
I don’t know where they’ve been – do bees hibernate? Whatever. (I’m too tired to google it tonight.) They love these purple flowers and sure enough, there were a dozen or so flitting about.
If you look close enough I think I caught a couple of them sort of off of the center of the frame, but thery’re there.
Once or twice they would come up on the top and I would try to get the camera (iPhone) close enough to get a good picture. They didn’t like that.
I chose to leave them be. I’m sure they were hungry and cranky. And they have stingers. I know what I would do if I were hungry and cranky and have a stinger and some jerk kept sticking a huge phone in my business. I didn’t want to be a jerk. Or get stung.
We Love The Stars Too Fondly 