Maybe today’s arctic chill makes me particularly fond of this July scene. One of today’s tasks was to wrap (and tomorrow mail) a stack of 2010 photo calendars for my family back in Ohio, and of the 13 shots (12 months plus a cover image) that made this year’s cut, this image of a green bee on pollinating a purple coneflower is my favorite. I’ve always loved purple coneflowers, and it took some trying to get a handful of pictures worth sharing. And on a bitterly cold December day, it’s always good to cherish a memory of a warm and sunny July day.
This is my contribution for today’s Photo Friday theme, Best of 2009. Enjoy!
Hoarded Ordinaries 
Dec 19, 2009 at 1:55 pm
With the snow storm coming to New England tonight it was nice to see this beautiful picture from warmer days, I agree it makes the calendar cut definitely. I like the green in the insect against the prickly orange of the flower very much.
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Dec 19, 2009 at 4:51 pm
Never saw a green bee before! Wow!
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Dec 20, 2009 at 1:54 am
Your photography is so wonderful. And since you are snowed in, I bet it is nice to recall that July day. What kind of camera and lenses do you use? I never get this clarity with my Nikon D60. Tell me about photo Friday.
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Dec 21, 2009 at 11:39 am
Yes, I took a lot of pictures that day waiting to get this one green bee, as he was so striking! He definitely stood out among the other bees.
Fran, I took this shot with my pocket-sized point-and-shoot, a Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ3. It’s what I take most of my blog pictures with, although I also have a Lumix DMC-FZ28 which is slightly larger (i.e. not pocket-sized!) Both are point-and-shoot digicams: I’m too lazy to deal with SLR cameras and hassle of interchangeable lens. 🙂
Photo Friday is a website that suggests a theme every Friday, then folks post links on that site to the blog-post where they illustrated that theme. It’s a good way to find interesting photo-blogs…and a good prompt for a quick Friday picture-post!
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