Gathering Gold Dust

After all the wonderful days we have had today was a cool and overcast. I spent the afternoon at a friends place as she was having trouble with her computer... we got things going again and had a good grumble about our problems with our earthquake repairs. We both are getting really fed up with it all!

This bee, not sure what kind it is, was having a good feed on these wonderful yellow flowers.

Yellow is the most visible colour, and is particularly attractive to birds and insects. It is believed that the vision of birds is particularly sensitive to certain colours, such as yellow. Yellow pan traps are used to capture insects, many of which are attracted to shades of yellow.

Yellow is the colour of most gold, most warning signs, or most ripe lemons. In the spectrum of visible light, and in the traditional colour wheel used by painters, yellow is a mixture of green and orange.

Yellow is commonly associated with gold, wealth, sunshine, reason, happiness, optimism and pleasure, but also with envy, jealousy and betrayal. It plays an important part in Asian culture, particularly in China.
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