Maybe you see a couple of honeybees on the middle left side of the picture. It's bigger if you click it.
The plant is a crepe myrtle and the reason I can come up so close on it is the shrub / tree was only planted this year. It looks like it's happy in its new home and it will get enormous. The next-door neighbor planted it but maybe in not such a wise location because it will overgrow the hell out of Yevette's yard; maybe that will be ok when it brings a whole lot of beautiful.
Honeybees will come anyway for this one but maybe Yevette's clover patch in the back has helped. That plot with nothing but clover didn't do as well as she had hoped and the clover competes with itself. It's probably better to seed them in the lawn because they easily tolerate being mowed every so often and they flower at shorter heights. Who knows how they should know but you've seen them do it.
Part of the get-the-hell-away-from-the-computer is to survey the domain out there from time to time and that's when I noticed such a splash of color. I even went back inside to let Yevette know she might want to grab her camera. We wandered around it, popping off some shots, until the honeybees were spotted and then it became a campaign of Must Get a Pic of the Bees.
This one is hardly National Geographic but it's nice to see the li'l stingers flying about making honey and all that. Sometimes people say the bigger bumblebees are honey bees but, noooo, that ain't so. These ones are the real thing and it's damn good to see the life. Maybe they come from a hive somewhere but I've never seen one so hopefully that means they're magic bees who just fly around of their own accord. That makes it better for some reason.
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