Zinnia

Zinnia came up this year from seed that sprouted in the area where old flowers from previous years had been planted.

I really wish I could get some of my old Cleome to come up and bloom so I could get some new seed.

The seeds I save are often forgotten about until a few years later and then I end up dumping all of them in the same general area.

Honeybees

We used to have thousands of honeybees around here but they seemed to vanish. This is one of them before they disappeared.

I didn't plant any new flowers this summer and wonder if I should have? I do have "Lavender" that all bees love and I did see lots of small, black, bumblebees on that this summer and yesterday I saw a honeybee on it, so the honeybees are still in the area and I am thankful for that.

There were two large hives of honeybees in the large maple tree behind out house and both hives left and landed on the spruce tree