A Wet Worker Bee

Running out of places I haven't yet been to - apart from the mythical alpaca farm somewhere on the other side of town - so today I set off in the rain to my workplace just to see how my mini wildflower meadow is getting along.

And the news is that the birds foot trefoil is just starting to come into flower, and there are a few buttercups too. Now much else as yet, but it is still very early. I hope to see a really nice yellow carpet in a few weeks.

Many fingers crossed.

It's not the prettiest walk alas, but a long one, and a needed one. It's been one of those down days today, one of those overwhelming days. I love information, news and knowledge, but too much of it has been awful.

Luckily, bees are not concerned by such matters although they face deadly struggles of their own. The little buff tailed worker bee I saw today was the only insect I came across in the rain; happily filling its saddlebags with hawthorn pollen from the blossoming hedgerows.

It's not on furlough!

Si

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