On Wednesday, taking advantage of the last day of my mini holiday, I decided to take advantage of the unexpected sunshine and drop by QE Park to check out the flowers. There were, of course, very few blooming flowers just yet - it is officially still winter after all.
Crocuses, however, don't care that it's still winter. And apparently, neither do some types of bees. I found this guy, apparently drunk on pollen, or perhaps just taking a nap, inside the bloom. At first I thought it was dead, as it wasn't moving at all (bonus for me - much easier to photograph!) but after poking it once or twice it started to react to my approaching finger, which I figured meant it was time to leave it alone.
[Yes, I know it's only been a couple of pictures since the last purple & white crocus shot, but this one was has a bee and was taken from about 8 inches, rather than 4 feet.]
I spent entirely too much time today trying to modify the header for this blog - it shouldn't have been that difficult. I do like the result though. It is, of course, a bit of the last picture that I posted, with some minor editing. Not quite what I'd originally had in mind, but I don't think that will work (related to the problems I experienced), so this is what you get. Better than the standard blogger header at least.
As I haven't shot anything new all week, and didn't make it out today, I thought I'd do some more archive raiding for images that got missed the first time around. This one is from back in June, and I'm really not sure why it didn't get posted other than maybe I'd posted too many flower pictures already. But, since we're into the darkest days of winter (solstice in less than two weeks), I suppose we could all use a little pick-me-up - at least those of us in the northern hemisphere.
And in spite of more rain in the forcast for tomorrow I'm going to
try and get out and shoot something new.
