Beemouse Laboratories

Doesn’t this bee look holy?  I mean, with the ethereal sun spotlighting the center of the flower, and her looking all golden against the contrasting purple of the petals…?

I took this photo on the way to work one day, walking in the sun and watching the bees buzz around, pollinating, gathering nectar madly.  I love bees.

A friend told me that he recently saw a sign in a park that said, “Warning: BEES” and we both found this hilarious.  He said, “Bees are always funny.”  It’s true.

And just yesterday bees were swarming out of the window of the lab I work in, up on the 6th floor of the Health Sciences Building at the University of Washington.  I’d never seen swarming bees before, and it was even better than cartoons show it– a wide, loose mass of thousands of bees careening in large circles so fast you can’t even track them with your eyes.  I hope they’ve found a place to live now.  They were kind of intimidating.