I haven't caught up with posting all of my PADs for this month yet, nor have I caught up with commenting on all of the galleries that I usually peruse yet. Nor will I today since aside from a break for lunch and doing a load or two of washing (and processing and posting this and a couple of other shots) I need to work today.

However given the ice and snow-laden galleries that I have seen from the northern hemisphere in the last day or two, I thought I'd jump ahead and post this one of a bee doing its pollen gathering in the bright summer sun.

Fear not northerners, your turn is coming. Just close your eyes and think of Mr. Bee and his pollen here. Your summer will be here before you know it, in the same way as yet another year passes. Before you know it. Once again.

This wasn't exceptionally easy to get, and indeed this isn't quite the shot that I wanted. Although the light obviously wasn't an issue, there's a cool sea breeze today. It's welcome for keeping the temperature down (I hate to brag, but we're talking nice low to mid 20's C), but unfortunately it also blows the branches of this crepe myrtle around. Just when I thought had the perfect shot of a bee hovering in flight, {whoosh}, in would come a gust of wind and bee would go from "hover" to "manoeuvre", and I'd end up with a blur on my sensor. In the end I decided to compromise and go for one where the bee had landed.