POLLINATORS

                                                                                                            

Did you know it's National Pollinator Week? Let's celebrate with some pics of the pollinators at our place.

Didn't even notice the butterfly on the lamb's ear until I uploaded the pic.

As you can see, there's a whole lot of pollinating going on around here. To find out more about this vital part of our ecosystem and how to protect it, visit www.pollinator.org or www.fws.gov/pollinators/
Hope you had a great weekend and were able to celebrate Father's Day with a dad or two. Ours was action packed. The kids were home, there was lunching, biking, ferry riding, beer-tasting, campfiring, and laughing. So much laughing. Also, I am told by my offspring that I made the best hummus in the "history of hummus." I'll share that recipe later in the week. If you like.
Tootles!

BEES AND LAVENDER

I love lavender, and this year my lavender is abundant. It is spilling out of it's bed and threatening to take over the walkway to the patio. I've begun cutting and bundling it for drying, but it hardly seems fair to take it all away. The bees love it so, and I have spent a ridiculous amount of time in the last couple of days trying to get the perfect bee on lavender pic. Love the combination of those cool, silvery green buds, with the purple blue blossoms, and then there's the fragrance...

This bee's gold tinted wings are courtesy of the sunset behind me. How lucky was that?

This is a good time to raid your ribbon drawer, though if you're planning to hang your lavender for drying, bundle it with rubber bands. It tends to shrink as it dries and the bundles will loosen if they're just tied.

I've been saving this bit of lavender toile for years. 

"As rosemary is to the spirit, so lavender is to the soul."

XO