Friends show up in the most unlikely of places or maybe in the most likely of places when I am not expecting relationships to blossom and become.. As I grow older and I break from old patterns and ways of being I am grateful for friends who embrace expansion and discomfort.. Friends, who unknowingly in just being themselves make my world more comfortable and content and fill me with the possibility of growth.. Friends who garden and meditate and think and actively work for change not by talking in comfortable circles but instead stepping into arenas to listen and truly grow like the plants they tend in their own gardens.. they actively pollinate.. by doing.
Burrowing Bee
Every season has a theme in my life. Something I am fascinated with.
Fall I love the changing of the leaves, the shift in the breeze as the canopy looses its grip on the wind, and the migrating birds.
In the winter my focus shifts to the mammals, trees, and the gatherings and movements of the winter bird guilds. Mammals wander further making their medicine is easier for me to understand. The trees stand tall and proud and sing the winter song of stillness.
In the spring, when the light changes, my fascination shifts to the warming earth, the stirring of the seeds, the chase for the first leaf, and watching for the first juvenile birds of this season.
Summer brings the flowers, the sweltering heat, and the insects.
So much medicine to be learned each and every day - and in every season...
These burrowing bees have thick yellow hair on their back legs to catch the pollen. They, like most bees live in colonies.
Coneflower
I feel like a bumble bee when I gaze into this.
It makes me dizzy with delight.
Bumblebee
Bumblebees leave a scent behind on flowers they visit so other bees don't waste their time on flowers that have already been touched. Scent marking reduces the time a bumblebee spends looking for a flower with nectar making them really efficient pollinators.
Brilliant.
Simply brilliant.
