I’m grateful to see quite a few baby apricots that survived sequential deep freezes in early spring. And grateful to see the first-year cherry sapling buzzing with so many different species of native bees.
I’m grateful to spend time with the lilacs and their bees, and to perfume the house with fresh blossoms clipped daily; and grateful to see the crabapple continue hosting butterflies and bees.
And back to the cherry tree, because I just can’t get enough of it. I’m grateful for the warm sunny days that preceded the past two days of rain and hail: grateful for the moisture, and that the hail was small and brief and probably didn’t do much damage to anything in the garden.
Amazing photography. Thank you!
Beautiful photos! Daily I count the tiny incipient fruit on my small Meyer lemon 🍋 and blood orange 🍊 trees, and the zinnias popping up in the garden, as well as the sweet jasmine blooming with its heady and gorgeous scent, and I thank God for the miracle of nature.
Just stunning … beyond.
And grateful to wake up to awe, in Rita’s garden.
So beautiful, you are so blessed to have these in your presence! I love that you share them!
Such beauty and you captured it so well with your camera
I loved this post and your photos…but some of your “bees” are actually flies. They are called hover flies, flower flies or syrphid flies and they are bee-mimics. You can tell them apart by thier anntenae. Flies have very short, stubby antennae. They are also important pollinators.
The butterfly is one of my favourites- a hairstreak. It’s too dark to indentify.
Spring is finally here in Ontario. The leaves are starting to emerge. It’s T-shirt weather. Time to get out and find butterflies!