Buzzed

The bees have been loving my lavender this summer.  What’s not to love, though?  Lavender is fragrant and stately, yet casual, unassuming, and absolutely stunning.  It’s one of my favorite perennials.

But this post is about the bees.

There were a bunch of fat, fuzzy bumblebees buzzing around the lavender, sounding a bit like I understand the World Cup sounds this year. I headed outside with my camera, and took about 80 pictures.  Because bees are fast.  They do not sit and pose for you, in fact some of them had a bit of a smirky, superior sort of look to them.

So I got a lot of blurs:

And I got a lot of bees deserting me just as I focused in:

And I got a few near misses:

But I got some good ones, too:

(Seriously, do you see his smirk?)

Still not crystal clear, but I’m blaming those hyper bees.  I edited the final four pictures using Picasa, which is free editing software you can download (yes, for free!)  I don’t use Picasa for everyday pictures, because it’s a pain to save back to my picture files, and it’s not easy to access the photos for my blog posts, but I love the end result.  I also use Picasa to make collages of my photos like this one I made in January.

I’m done Droning on, so…BUZZ OFF!