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Black & Yellow Macro Monday

I am ever amazed at how good my iPhone can do!  We were mini-golfing when I saw this bee buzzing around the black-eyed susans.  I wish he would have faced me, but oh well.

Macro Monday is easy to play, snap a macro (or any close-up) photo, post it on your blog and come back here and sign MckLinky. :) MM started on Sept 29, 2008 - THANX to all of you for helping make it such a fun start to the week!

We were not alone

We were in the middle of absolutely nowhere, not a car in sight, but we weren't alone.

No matter where we go we cannot ever, ever, get away from chipmunks! sigh

Yellow and Orange

I chased this little fellow from flower to flower. I was surprised to see him here so late in the season. I took these in late October.

I was entranced by all the pollen on his legs.

Poor little fellow. :( It did make him more cooperative though.

Three Bee Macro Monday

I sat on the porch enjoying some of the last bits of warmth and admiring the dwindling flowers when a visitor flew up and joined me.

He buzzed this way and that and I was braver behind my camera than I ever would have been without it.

It wasn't long before we were joined by another bee.

And then another. I'm not sure I've ever seen 3 different kinds of bees in one location before.  They were all moving rather sluggishly.  I snapped these a few days ago, minutes apart, but now the flowers are nearly gone.

Macro Monday is easy to play, snap a macro (or any close-up) photo, post it on your blog and come back here and sign MckLinky. :) MM started on Sept 29, 2008 - Thanx to all of you for helping make it such a fun start to the week!

let it bee

I find spending time in sunshine is good therapy.  When I take my camera along I get to share that therapy with others.  I can't believe we still have flowers blooming but I'm like the bee and soaking them in while they're here.

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SOOC #14 - the bee

I am ever amazed at how much braver I am when hiding behind the lens. Normally I flee from bees, but this one drew me in.

He flitted and flew and was so hard to follow!

And while he was flitting around this damselfly rested peacefully.

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spotted

a little bee that goes buzz

I strive to be a brightly emerging presence, attracting all the good in life towards me. Sometimes, the best way to get out of a funk is to put on the effervescent attitude. I have to be thankful that I'm currently in remission and rejoice in all the moments of living, even the rainy ones!  With any luck I'll pass my enthusiasm for life on to at least one person, and they will pass it on to at least one more, and so on, and so on. . .

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About the title: Just a little diddy I sing to the grandson, spent some time singing it this week (hadn't for quite some time) so guess it's fresh in my mind

About the photo: A break in the rain, a moment of sunshine, several bright orange flowers opened, me walking by with the macro on the camera and suddenly a bee was there, I got off one shot, the second shot the bee is gone, lol.

Walking a path

I get delighted to have an opportunity to walk a path, any path. It can be one I've never walked or one I've walked many times. There's always something new to see. A bee on a flower.

A huge dandelion.

Is it still called a dandelion when it's the size of a softball?

Spiderwort is a favorite of mine.

I love the chaotic way it grows! No surprise there!

{These were all taken with the point and shoot - some days I just don't feel like carrying the big gun for several miles.}

Fluttering by

This butterfly has a daddy longlegs friend to the right.

And when she flew to a new spot she found another friend.

A different butterfly with a different little friend (on the left).  All of the above photos were female Cabbage Whites.

The one above is a male Cabbage White.

This male Clouded Sulpher landed on me so I handed hubs the camera.

And the wicked wind helped make more of him visible.

Apparently butterflies like company.