Bees & Sunflowers
The hum of bees is the voice of the garden. - Elizabeth Lawrence
"The honey-bee's great ambition is to be rich, to lay up great stores, to possess the sweet of every flower that blooms. She is more than provident. Enough will not satisfy her,she must have all she can get by hook or crook." - John Burroughs
For to the bee a flower is a fountain if life
And to the flower a bee is a messenger of love
And to both, bee and flower,
the giving and the receiving is a need and an ecstasy.
- Kahlil Gibran
posted by Endment at 11:43 PM
14 Comments:
Lovely pictures, beautiful words! As always.
Endment, these photos of bees and garden flowers are exquisite, and oh those words which go with them. . . . Are your bees behaving in intoxicated fashion too? Mine are quite drunk with all the glorious summer abundance. Hope you are staying cool in this heat, it is a tad cooler up here today, only 91.4 degrees.
(Sorry about the previous comment - Blogger was not behaving)
Wow... really good picture/words ratio. Loved it. :-)
I've been watching bees most afternoons around the pond. They load themselves up with so much pollen it looks like they won't be able to lift off the flower! I was surprised to see how much they like the flowers on our oregano. Imagine that pungent honey. Wonderful photos, endment.
Beautiful photos! Such a cheery post to greet the morning. We, too, have a lot of bees - a result of heavy rains and second bloomings. Gibran's statement of symbiosis is so beautifully expressed. Wish sometimes that more of the human species could figure that out.
Beautiful photos as usual. The quotes are well-chosen; I especially like the last by Kahlil Gibran.
I've missed "seeing" you on a regular basis. I hope we'll see more of you soon.
Beautiful photos and poetic words!
Have a good weekend!
I love the Gibran quote, too.
I can amuse myself for hours watching the bees!
When we look at the moon it is half-full too - but on the other side!
Love the sunflowers - so so so very very pretty AND so so summer! Cheers me up in my wintry chills (although we've been having some clear, blue-sky days with new growth - like match-heads and buds and sprigs. yay!)
A lovely post!
Allow me to cast a vote for John Burroughs. Nature lovers who have not read him should check him out. There are some John Burroughs sites online that provide a good starting point.
Very pretty Sunflowers. Sunflowers are so 'there'. They make a story all their own.
Starting in August through November, when I was working, there were always a lot of orders for Sunflowers Arrangements.
I loved doing them. we used misty blue for filler. sometimes purple statice.
Beautiful!
the giving and the receiving is a need and an ecstasy
What a great line.
Nice to see you blogging again, Endment. I haven't had time to post much of late, but always checked your blog to see if your technical difficulties had been resolved. Hopefully that is all in the past.
I can almost hear the hum of the bees in your photos. Love the words, too, especially Gibran.
Thank you for commenting on my coyote photo. You've seen deer, we've coyote, but who knows what has been afoot that we have NOT seen (yet).
Those sunflowers are beautiful pics. Great message to go along with the photos.
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