bee

Our necessary bees - this one from the Botanic Gardens. Their star this weekend is the corpse flower "Stinky" that bloomed Sept 1st. It is not pollinated by bees.

bee on yellow

A more lemony yellow almost finished with the color wheel.

Thanksgiving?

Had password issues so am belatedly adding a thanksgiving post.  Ours was good.

Hope all of you had a good one as well and are now in the midst of Christmas preparations.  

Glowing edges bee

Glowing edges version of the previous mandala.  I liked the different colors that became visible

and you can still make out the bee.  Ah, not quite the same this is a 6 pointed star and the previous one is a 5 pointed star, smaller slice of the pie above.)

Another Bee

A bee on Black and Blue Salvia. I contacted the Botanic Gardens to find out what this plant was and thought the name was interesting!  Even found it online and ordered a plant. 

Bee Square

Although the overall picture is round the bees add a partial square element to the composition.  At the Botanic Gardens there are bees all over, so it is not surprising that they find their way into the pictures I take there.  The reddish color of this sunflower added interest.  The yellow dots are the tiny individual flowers that make each sunflower seed.

Simple bee

 

The simple picture of a bee hovering near a flower against the background of a beige wall struck a cord with me. 

Jimsonweed flower and bee

The bee, although in a depression of shadow, stands up enough to be highlighted by the sun and back lit just a little.  The flower is a big white trumpet shape of the Jimsonweed plant at the Denver Botanic Gardens.

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Bee on the lip of a white flower.  I liked this bee he was sitting on the edge of a gorgeous flower, I'll upload the original picture tomorrow. 

National Honey Bee Day

Bees are important to our gardens they pollinate all our fruit trees and vegetables. Saturday is National Honey Bee Day!  This bee whose legs are packed with pollen is on a red cone flower. 

black bumble bee

Here's a black bumble bee.

orange stripe bee

Bee with a big orange stripe.  It always surprises me to find bees in many color combinations. At the Denver Botanic Gardens there must be several different hives around the grounds. 

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The bee in this picture is on the edge of a milkweed bloom. 

Bees

Ending the Celtic cross series with bees.  When at the Denver Botanic Gardens the other day every flower seemed to have bees on them, so I will share more of my bees in August.