Home Day

Today was an unexpected home day. Maw had an allergic reaction to something and had to go to the doctor. So I stayed home this morning with Quickbeam. We took advantage of the time to go for a walk, and to see what was blooming outside. The weather was overcast and it looked like it was going to rain. I have been trying to get a good bee picture all year, and was finally able to. I have a particular fondness for bees after reading Sue Hubbell's books. At one time when we planned on moving to the country and starting a homestead, I planned on getting some hives of my own. Those hives are in the same dream wastebasket as the homestead is, but I still get to see and enjoy bees from time to time.

Bugs

This has to be one of the buggiest summers that I have experienced in a long time. There are dead june bugs littering the walkways around the house. There are spiders with webs all over the bushes. There's a huge thing that is slightly smaller than a rhinocerous beetle that is on my front rose bush. There are japanese beetles all over the rose bushes. There's a dead katydid on my back porch. Work is a similar graveyard for insects. They get under the front glass double doors and wander through the building. One of the rhinocerous beetle thingies got in and was walking IN FRONT OF MY OFFICE. I am feeling very creepy crawly now.