Buzzing Bee Morning

This loudly buzzing bee caught Mimi’s attention as well as mine as we walked down the stone steps off the side of the porch where lunaria is scattered along the edges. It’s a carpenter bee, more numerous than their look-alike bumblebee companions visiting the first flowers and I could always hear them before I could see them. They may look like bumblebees but they are a different species.

And considering yesterday’s white luanaria, this is the pink variety.

About these photos

After a particularly rough winter spring has sprung all at once in my yard. These photos, and the ones I’ll be sharing of what’s blooming in my yard right now, are actually from April 2024 when I photographed all the same things that are in my yard blooming right now. This year I’m renewing my garden, clearing out the overgrown area I haven’t used for a few years and building out or renewing the flower beds and I’m barely taking time for photos.

I loved these photos and used very few that year. My little black cat Mimi, who’d shared my yard with me since 2012 and her life since 2007, was in her last months and I focused on her, and taking the most beautiful photos of her and everything growing and blooming was a balm to my soul in those months. That’s her in the light on the fresh green grass from the same day these dogwood photos were taken. Prescient, perhaps, is she looking into her future? So I share those photos as I remember her, that year and all the other springs we spent out there.

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