Turn your faces to the sun.

When words escape, flowers speak.
- Bruce W. Currie


Be like the flower, turn your faces to the sun.
- Kahlil Gibran


I will be the gladdest thing
Under the sun!
I will touch a hundred flowers
And not pick one.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay


In this world
we walk on the roof of hell
gazing at flowers.
- Issa


As I work among my flowers, I find myself talking to them, reasoning
and remonstrating with them, and adoring them as if they were human
beings. Much laughter I provoke among my friends by so doing, but that
is of no consequence. We are on such good terms, my flowers and I.
- Celia Thaxter, 1835-1894



I turn to the flowers and bees today to relax a bit after yesterday's drama. The patient spent the night in the ICU, had his nurse call his wife this morning and actually carried on a conversation. He is supposed to be transfered to a regular room today. It boggles my mind, a liver transplant the day before and heading to a regular hospital bed. Many thanks for the kind thoughts and words yesterday. I'm quite exhausted and I'm only the extended family, his wife and boys are absolutely drained but filled with hope. So, I turned to the flowers for my 75th blip and feel their positive energy surrounding me and mine.


I didn't think this was actually a bee and after some research I found that it's something called a Syrphidae - a flower fly, whose larvae feed on aphids.These flies also differ from bees in their flight habits, flying more like hummingbirds with rapid movements and the ability to stop and hover in one place while they check you out. The different species may mimic yellowjackets, bald-faced hornets, honeybees, bumblebees, carpenter bees, or other wasps, and since the deception is good enough to fool humans it probably does a good job of making their predators stop and take notice too - birds, frogs, or other vertebrates that eat insects.