AIR BEE and BEE...

Every summer, I run an "Air Bee and Bee". Free to male bees and solitary females, who  have stayed out too late or  strayed  too far from home the night before. They "bee" too tired to return to their nests. Inula is the best place to sleep, as it is a safe, warm place in which to snooze and snore, when the night gets cooler.

Even Yum Yum ( yes, that's what we named him, cause he  goes "yum yum yum" when he comes to visit), one of our resident deer, sleeps away the hours, where he feels safe. ZZZZZZZZZ....

If you're very, very quiet, and very, very careful,  you can pet the bees, as they sleep. Unfortunately ,this tends to wake them, and  they aren't too happy to have their siesta disturbed.  Best to let sleeping bees "beeee" ....till morning......

Morning Song of the Bees by Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)

Awake! Awake! for the earliest gleam of golden sunlight shines on the rippling waves that brightly flow beneath the flowering vines.

Awake, Awake, for the low sweet chant of the wild birds' morning hymn comes floating by on the fragrant air.

Through the forest cool and dim; then spread each wing, and work, and sing, through the long, bright sunny hours

Over the pleasant earth we journey forth, for a day among the flowers.

Awake! Awake! for the summer wind has bidden the blossoms unclose

Has opened the violet's soft blue eye and wakened the sleeping rose.

And lightly they wave on their slender stems fragrant and fresh and fair,

Waiting for us, as we singing come , to gather our honey-dew there.

Then spread each wing, and work and sing, through the long, bright sunny hours;

Over the pleasant earth we journey forth! 

For a day among the flowers!

"The bee's life is like a magic well: the more you draw from it, the more there is to learn..." - Karl Von Firsch

 Photographs 2025