Calling all bees,
if you please,
come get yellow
to your knees.
We don’t bite
or pick a fight.
We sing hello
to morning light.
Twinkling fairies
and magic marries
gold dust to petals
dotting prairies.
Leave us to shine
for thick bee wine
makes tea sweet
and autumn fine.
Copyright 2016 Brenda Davis Harsham
Note: Early spring dandelions are essential for bees, so don’t yank them all, please.
I just ate some honey with a biscuit for lunch.
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Yum! I hope it was warm and crisp.
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Oh yes.
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Reblogged this on Orthometry and commented:
But none of the Africanized bees, please!
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Yes! No killer bees need apply. 🙂
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The Weather Channel did a piece on “invasive species.” Had not heard them discussed in years, but (unfortunately) they are alive and continuing to expand (invade). (What can we do to preserve our existing Euro bees, I wonder?)
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The cold will help defend our native bees.
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Technically, the Euro honeybee is an “invasive species” also, but it has been here for a century or two and is, effectively, native. (I get your point.) Maybe your idea about the cold is right, as long as climate change / global warming does not upset the proverbial (and literal) applecart…. (Good point! And, let’s hope you are right!)
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Fingers crossed we don’t find most people employed in pollinating one day. 🙂 The bees are so much better at it than we would be.
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That’s the kind of commentary that makes me want to laugh and cry at the same time. And, I think you hit the bullseye with it, or at least very close to the center of the petals. 🙂
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Maybe I’d be a good pollinator at that. 😀
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Reblogged this on Journal Edge and commented:
Excellent blog post by: Brenda Davis Harsham
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Gorgeous!!!
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Pure honey is so hard to find – as well as beautiful and dear souls like you. Wonderful post!
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Thanks, Lu! I appreciate that you stopped by. XOXO
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With great pleasure. Always.
🙂
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Your piece brings joy. 🙂 Dandelions are so underrated.
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If only they didn’t kill the grass we need for soccer. 🙂
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P.S. Forget to say what a lovely picture of honey jars, beautiful the way the light glows through them!♥
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They were a lucky find in VA. Thanks for your visit, Suzy. I always appreciate when you stop by. 🙂
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I enjoy visiting Brenda!♥ Sorry it takes me so long to get round to you sometimes, I get there in the end! 🙂
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This one is lovely Brenda, and very timely too! When I was out and about taking pictures in my local cemetery the other week, it was such a beautiful sunny spring day, I noticed there were loads of bees. Got me worried for a moment I’d walked on a nest and brought them out – but no, it was just the day, they were all busy (as you’ve said) getting pollen on their knees…haha…I love the thought of that!! 😀
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🙂 I do love honey in my tea. I’m glad we still have loads of bees. I read about a fruit-growing community in China that has to pollenate with Q-tips because they have no more bees. Frightening!
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My goodness that is a frightening thought!!! Humans trying to be bees, that must be a tedious exhausting job, you need wings to that effectively!
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Ladders and Q-tips. I hope it’s not our future.
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Bee-autiful! 😉
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Thanks!
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Oh I love this.
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Yay, thanks!
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They just make me Smile 🙂
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Me, too.
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Love this Brenda!! The dandelions are welcome in my yard!!! ☺️
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Excellent! There’s hope for the bees.
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☺️🐝🐝🐝💛
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We love dandelions and we love bees – perfect!
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Excellent! I’m glad you approve.
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Brenda, I edited some of our private conversation last night. I think it was very nice to have a chat before I went to bed, like an aunt and niece or vastly spaced, “sisters.” The bees poem is “sweet,” knee deep in “golden fun!” xo
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You might be thinking I’m younger than I am. But that’s okay with me. 🙂 I’m a bit of an older mom. One of the other bloggers admitted to being 38, and boy I wish I was only 38. But I wouldn’t trade away one of my years. So many good things have happened over the years.
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I will be 61 in November so may be older than you think I am, too. 🙂 I wouldn’t trade the path my life went either. Just out of curiosity , did you notice this man named Geoffrey Waggoner is commenting on my blog? One talked about so much of our younger times together, working at Cedar Point, then dating while I was at BGSU and he was in graduate school at OSU, he was going for his law degree when I married my first husband and he sent me an easel and art supplies for a wedding present. It makes me a little silly, just thinking of our old times. I think he is still married. . . Just filling you in, since we sometimes share a bit here or on my blog. Enjoy your Memorial Day weekend. I shall visit newer posts of yours, thinking this note is semi-private but giddy school girlish, too. 🙂
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Enjoy your Memorial Day, too, Robin. It’s a fun feeling being giddy. You certainly deserve someone to pay particular attention to you. What a lovely wedding present he sent. Clearly thought about it a lot. The friends we make when we’re in college are so much more important than I would have thought at the time. I wish I’d understood that better then. You are only about 10 years older than me, my friend. Not so very far apart, except that I waited a long time to marry and have kids. 🙂
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That’s a poem that is almost edible it’s so delicious.
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Why, thank you! I asked my neighbor how she managed to not be overtaken with dandelions, and she said: “Every spring, I eat them.” Edible, indeed. LOL
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That’s a good solution.
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my aussie son-in-law who moved back here last summer is raising a colony of bees – looking forward to wonderful honey and i’m leaving all my yellow dandelions out for them –
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I like your son-in-law already, and I don’t even know him. 🙂
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This makes me like them a little more…. They make me happy anyway when I first see them because – yay! Spring! The bees is an important piece to remember too.
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Thanks, Louise. I partly put it there to remind myself. I’m usually fighting the yellow tide from my next door neighbor who has more dandelions than grass. But I try to remember that missing some is a good thing — for the bees. 🙂
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I have a whole field of yellow for them!
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So does my neighbor! I have a few. I’m still waiting for the bees, though. I think they are still sleeping here.
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thanks for the reminder about dandelions!
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Thanks for commenting, Doreen!
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This is so lovely and I’ll remember that good advice.
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Thanks, Michael. I’m still thinking of that secret swimming pool and smiling.
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