Dances with bees

The bees arrived on Monday and settled onto a gourd that hangs on my garden fence. (Click the pic at left to see the larger image.)

I was so happy that all these pollinators chose to bless my garden with their presence ... and then I realized that they could not continue to live right out in the open like that.

Sure enough, the next morning they moved to a pile of brush in the woods. And the day after that, they moved to another pile of brush in the woods. Then they moved again ahead of the on...