The Gifted Photographer: Eastern swallowtail butterfly
The Gifted Photographer: How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower. - Isaac Watts
The Gifted Photographer: Red hornet examines a mimosa blossom for nectar
The Gifted Photographer: Persian silk tree or pink siris (Albizia julibrissin)
The Gifted Photographer: Peony about to pop!
The Gifted Photographer: Eastern carpenter bee
The Gifted Photographer: Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - Papilio glaucus
The Gifted Photographer: end of summer ... wee beasties looking for final drops of sweet nectar
The Gifted Photographer: Black swallowtail: Papilio polyxenes
The Gifted Photographer: Fiery Skipper: Hylephila phyleus
The Gifted Photographer: golden summer days
The Gifted Photographer: Silver-Spotted Skipper Butterfly - Epargyreus clarus
The Gifted Photographer: "Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach you stillness"
The Gifted Photographer: Bee-ing bewilderingly beneficial ... Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea)
The Gifted Photographer: ah, sweet mystery of life ... or "ladybug love"
The Gifted Photographer: on the Bee Business channel ...
The Gifted Photographer: hanging on for dear life ...
The Gifted Photographer: lowering the "landing gear" for arrival!
The Gifted Photographer: Swallowtail colors
The Gifted Photographer: too bad this bee has no GPS!
The Gifted Photographer: end of summer, industrious bee still at work ...
The Gifted Photographer: Coreopsis lanceolata with friend
The Gifted Photographer: Painted Lady Butterfly
The Gifted Photographer: golden summer of 2009
The Gifted Photographer: Hast ne'er a honey-drop of love for me?
The Gifted Photographer: bee enjoying the blossoms of "Hylotelephium spectabile" ... thank you for the name, Michelle!