When the urge to take some photos strikes me and I don’t want to travel very far, I can usually depend on Cindy Dyer, my neighbor and photography mentor, to have something interesting to shot in her garden. About five o’clock today, I photographed what looks to be a tiny metallic green bee on one of the colorful flowers still in bloom at the side of her townhouse.
I like my fall colors to be bright and vivid, not muted and faded.
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No lack of colours there. I agree that fall should be vibrant.
When I was growing up in Massachusetts, we had glorious red foliage (I think it was the maple trees), but here in the Washington DC, the colors seem to be much more muted.
Superb! That really is a beautiful combination of colours. I don’t think we get exactly that little sweat bee over here but it blends in beautifully with the flower. Amelia
Thanks. i went looking around on the internet to try to identify the bee, but it seems that there are a lot of different sweat bees that are green and metallic.
You certainly got what you like with that shot!
Well done, what a gorgeous fall photo. Always love the time and effort you put into your posts.
Lovely colours. I wonder if the insect is one of the many kinds of mason bee?