Flowers & Bees

I had my camera out after photographing the coyote so when I passed some new flowers with the sun on the dew I couldn't resist taking a few shots. As usual, click on a photo to view it larger.







As I was taking photos of one of the flowers I realized there was a bumble bee hanging underneath it. Bees need an internal temperature of 35c to fly, and this one looked cold and wet. But as I photographed, it started crawling around and into the sun, and soon it looked drier and presumably warmer. They will also shiver to raise their temperature but this one didn't appear to be doing that.







And yes, I was a little later than usual getting to work :-)