Summer Bees
My honey bees are happy all summer – sunshine, a little rain, enough so the flowers will release their nectar and the pollen doesn’t get washed away . . . what more could a girl ask for ?
It is summer solstice today, the longest summer day here in the Antipodes, cold and snowy and the shortest day above the equator – amazing what a difference a hemisphere makes ! I often think about how hard the bees
work, I believe Maurice Maeterlinck captured it when he wrote `rustling, wing-lit hives` in his book `The Life of the Bee`, it describes to me, the sound and the sight inside a hive – smelling of wax with a translucent light
and constant movement.
Here in Aotearoa ,honey bees are flat-out making hay while the sun shines, tiny gauze winged bodies fly in and out of my hive all day, only stopping if it rains or the temp drops, come night time they are all inside by about
7.30pm, bumble bees are still out for an hour or so some days, they start earlier as well.
I thank them for their diligence and joy they bring to my life, for their pollination skills allowing us to eat well and enjoy the beauty of nature – most of all, I will try my hardest to keep them safe. . .
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What a wonderful show of appreciation for one of the tiny workers in the world. Visualizing their tiny “gauze winged bodies” floating through the air, legs full of pollen, tracking it back to their hive is now one of my blissful moments. Thank you for this – Keep on keeping them safe Marcia.
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