"There are bees sleeping in my flowers!"
This bit of news was breathlessly delivered by my wife, and she added, "You've got to take a picture!"
The evening before, she'd noticed that there were bees curled up and sleeping in our Maximilian sunflowers--an annual sunflower that does well here in northern New York state. They grow five, six, seven feet or more tall, and this time of year are so heavy with blossoms many of them fall over--undone by their own beauty.
So the next evening, at dusk, we went out to take a look-see. Camera in hand.
If a particular stem had ten flowers, at least two or three of them was home to a sleeping bumble bee. There are several hundred blossoms--and had to be hundreds of bees using our back yard and these flowers as a crash pad.
"I never thought bumble bees could be cute," my wife said, "But now I do."
She was right.
And damn, we get a break in the weather we should take out the stethoscope to see if they are snoring.
Note: the pictures were taken with a flash, and we woke the bees in the process of taking them.