The Autumn Joy is just sarting to turn pink and the bees are out in force. And we grow them really big too.
That was quite a good foto with the smaller bees. The big one is quite a looker. He looks pretty happy there in your garden.
The ones on the Autumn Joy was taken with the super macro setting. The lens was only about 4 inches from them.
Your first photogrph is so clear that I could almost reach in and touch the flowers and bees. Love the happy, smiling bee windmill.