Busy visitor.
This late into the blooming season and we are just now beginning to see detectable numbers of pollinating insects.  GOKY.

DP162-2013  Posted June 11; processed ditto.

Poppy, Papaver orientale 'Cedar Hill'
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Perennial Garden at the Matthaei Botanical Gardens,
Ann Arbor, Michigan
June 6, 2013 (D157)

Once again I have been taken by complete surprise by the response to one of my posts to the Dailies.  Big, big thanks to all who took the time to visit yesterday's post of the odd masonry.
Black Swallowtail butterfly on "Horrible Thislte (that really is the name!)", Shark Valley, The Everglades National Park, Florida March 2013. I was riding a bicylce into a steady, 10-15mph headwind when I saw this butterfly. There had not been many that day. It was terrible, glaring mid day light and with the wind, even harder to get a good shot. And, it was a raggedy, less than perfect butterfly. But, I fought for it! We have these butterflies and this thistle in Maine. Here we call it Bull Thistle.
A bee in a rose at the Huntington Gardens in San Marino, CA.
Colors in the Wind
Bees in Cactus Flower Series, Grapevine, TX, 2013
Covered in Pollen
Bees in Cactus Flower Series, Grapevine, TX, 2013
Bee in Mexican Blanket
Bees in Cactus Flower Series, Grapevine, TX, 2013
Lantana
Bees in Cactus Flower Series, Grapevine, TX, 2013
Shielded
Bees in Cactus Flower Series, Grapevine, TX, 2013
Tiny Grasshopper
Bees in Cactus Flower Series, Grapevine, TX, 2013
Busy visitor.
This late into the blooming season and we are just now beginning to see detectable numbers of pollinating insects. GOKY.

DP162-2013 Posted June 11; processed ditto.

Poppy, Papaver orientale 'Cedar Hill'
.
Perennial Garden at the Matthaei Botanical Gardens,
Ann Arbor, Michigan
June 6, 2013 (D157)

Once again I have been taken by complete surprise by the response to one of my posts to the Dailies. Big, big thanks to all who took the time to visit yesterday's post of the odd masonry.
Busy visitor.
This late into the blooming season and we are just now beginning to see detectable numbers of pollinating insects.  GOKY.

DP162-2013  Posted June 11; processed ditto.

Poppy, Papaver orientale 'Cedar Hill'
.
Perennial Garden at the Matthaei Botanical Gardens,
Ann Arbor, Michigan
June 6, 2013 (D157)

Once again I have been taken by complete surprise by the response to one of my posts to the Dailies.  Big, big thanks to all who took the time to visit yesterday's post of the odd masonry.
Busy visitor.
This late into the blooming season and we are just now beginning to see detectable numbers of pollinating insects. GOKY.

DP162-2013 Posted June 11; processed ditto.

Poppy, Papaver orientale 'Cedar Hill'
.
Perennial Garden at the Matthaei Botanical Gardens,
Ann Arbor, Michigan
June 6, 2013 (D157)

Once again I have been taken by complete surprise by the response to one of my posts to the Dailies. Big, big thanks to all who took the time to visit yesterday's post of the odd masonry.
See photo in original gallery.