Busy bumblebees –
Winter mahonia blooms ~
Eight billion lives.

Busy bumblebees –
Winter mahonia blooms ~
Eight billion lives.
Methodical bee –
Visits each of the flowers ~
Even damaged ones.
Old Mahonia –
Yellow racemes catch my eye ~
Bumblebee’s also.
Japanese Bindweed –
Beating the briars for light ~
Busy bees approve.
The first peony –
Not quite ready for the bees ~
Begins to unfurl.
Sat by Choisya –
Reading beside busy bees ~
The wren inspects me.
Whitethorn hedge in bloom –
Happy to see it is trimmed ~
An evening bee.
A field left uncut –
Dandelion feast for the bees ~
Simple ideas.
Lemon tree in bloom –
A bit early for the bees ~
Pollinate with brush.
Starting a new book –
Bees bazonkers on hedge blooms ~
I’ll hold off the cut.