This iris is bursting in bloom in my back yard this week. This butterfly (a monarch?) visited our wisteria & apricot blooms today. [/img] I then asked my daughter to pose in front of the wisteria again, because she was wearing purple. When she got close to it, she noticed honey bees and she moved calmly and quickly away! [/img] [/img]
Lots of purple to enjoy in your garden. My iris's have buds but no blooms yet. I don't blame your daughter for moving away from the bees. dooley
bees I keep telling her, bees look for flowers, not people. You have to bother a bee to get stung. She refers to all of them as "stinging bees", although she's never been stung. I got stung in the ankle last Summer, when I stepped on a bee while dumping water out of the kiddie pool. I was wearing flip-flops & I guess I "bothered" the bee. My daughter freaked a little about the slight swelling, but calmed down when she saw, I didn't cry and when my wife applied baking soda to the site. As a kid, I was allergic to bee stings.
We always use baking soda for bee sting, too. I haven't been stung recently. I keep out of their way, I guess. I know when the apricot trees were blooming there were a lot of bees. It sounded like the trees were humming when you walked close. dooley
Love the Irises.The color is stunning.I have bees all over my Carolina Jasmine and I haven't ever been bothered by them.
Butterflies and lovely blooms, I'm drooling! I can't wait for the warmer weather to arrive, but it's still early spring here.
Irises, apricot blossoms, wisteria.... what ezquisite fotos, topped-off by a monmarch butterfly! These are very nice fotos to look at. Thanks for posting them.
