A Clover and One Bee

"To make a prairie it takes 

A clover and one bee,

One clover, and a bee,
And revery.
The revery alone will do
If bees are few."

Emily Dickinson

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Build it and they will come.
This has certainly been true for our solitary bee hotel. It went up in spring and it's proven very popular. The first kind of bees to visit it were mason bees - a species I hadn't even known existed. They seal their holes with earth – hence their name. I counted eleven holes already sealed up and yet more are being colonised. I looked up mason bee and found out that the female lays one egg at a time, deposits pollen and nectar with it, then seals up the cavity. Then lays another egg and repeats the process till the hole is filled up. The young bees will emerge next spring - the next generation pollinators for our apple trees!



 

Today's Indulgence - A Bit of Sliding on the Rainbow

“Sometimes it's important
to work for that pot of gold.
But other times
it's essential
to take time off
and to make sure
that your most important decision in the day
simply consists of choosing which color to slide down
on the rainbow.”
Douglas Pagels

May Blossom

"And the day came

when the risk to remain tight in the bud
was more painful
than the risk it took to blossom."
Anais Nin