childhood among the sunflowers

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suburban sunflowers bow

to whimsical wooden swings

bees fly

summer breeze

 

 

Note:

(Sunflowers and wooden swings are precious and meaningful to me, my father built me a wooden swing that I spent hours going back and forth pretending I was on a cruise ships with dreams of traveling the world  I grew up, the rope faded and frayed  I was never really a good traveller  so the summer world travels remain in my childhood memories

now sunflowers are a very prominent presence in the present  one year a wild sunflower bush emerged from under the bird feeder  apparently it spread its seeds  the next year the sunflowers multiplied to fourteen  this year there are multiples I call them my suburban sunflowers  we leave them up way past their prime for the bumble bees 🐝 and birds)

the three pictures I added were taken by me this summer  I zoomed in  I wasn’t brave enough to stand that close  notice all of the pollen on his belly  I was informed he is a Mason bee, they are very efficient because they grab pollen everywhere whereas other bees just grab pollen on their legs)