Sunday, August 9, 2009

More weeds


There's a little Bumble Bee on the Green Envy Zinnia's, which have turned plain yellow and are really nothing special. I like Bumble Bees, they aren't mean and hardly ever sting. You can pet them, if you're gentle. They get so big here my daughter and I started calling them Rumble Bee 57's when she was little. Did you know Bumble Bees aren't supposed to be able to fly? Yep. The aerodynamics are all wrong according to scientists, flight should be impossible. No one told them though, so they don't give a rats ass.
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That blue flower is a weed. It's real common here and it's called a Day Flower or Wild Wondering Jew. I don't have the heart or time to pull it all and as long as you don't let it take over, it's pretty.

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

That blue flower is a lobelia.

Dirty Disher said...

LMAO! Okay then. Everything blue is now a Lobelia. I give up.

Matilda said...

Anon... Pat was talking about the blue flower in her latest pic of the zinnia and bumblebee. If you look closely you can see blue flowers in the background.

Dirty Disher said...

I don't want to make that anon on the Biz post feel bad. I think they were correct, it looks like a Lobelia. Someone else is just having some fun today.

Kiki said...

Yes DD the bumblebee has achieved the
impossible by being able to fly. They are
the poliinators of the worlds food supply.
If we didn't have them we would never have
any food not even sighhhhhh chocolate !

Dirty Disher said...

Awww, a world without chocolate? That would be a bad world.

Anonymous said...

If you like it, who cares what it is. I think it's pretty too. Do they smell nice?

Anonymous said...

That was meant for the other post..smart weeds...oopsas.

paintedfoot said...

I was stung on the head by a bumblebee a few years ago and it hurt so bad i almost passed out.
And I certainly was not the instigator- the bug just flew straight at me as I was opning my front door! Before that, i didn't think they stung, either. And having spent my childhood helping my bee-keeper family i've never been particularly freaked out by most bee family bugs. To this day though, bumble bees scary me white.