Dublin Zoo, July 2010

This bee was sitting on our porch just soaking in the Fall sun. He was very cooperative about sitting still.

We need these little guys to pollinate our pumpkin flowers! So many flowers, and nary a pumpkin.

“For so work the honey-bees, creatures that by a rule in nature teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom.”

William Shakespeare

This layout is a photo I took in Sitka in 2006, (these flowers were as big as saucers, and this was one of my favorites)

For so work the honey-bees, creatures that by a rule in nature teach

the act of order to a peopled kingdom.

~ William Shakespeare