Tuesday, June 02, 2009

Lupin or is it Lupine

The spelling, apparently, depends on where you live and since I live in the beautiful Pacific Northwest I'm going with Lupine. While watering and weeding our community garden, (check out the latest post here) I took a break, grabbed my camera and snapped some pictures of the few Lupine in the field. Around here you can come across massive fields of these beauties ranging from near white to a deep attention grabbing purple. Today there were just a few scattered about and they were of the light purple variety...

Lupine, no matter how you look at it, is pretty.

Look up at it from down below - pretty.

Look down on it from up above - pretty.

Well hello Mr. Bee!
I bet you think it's pretty too.

Look at all of that pollen on his legs.

2 comments:

Elite Stitches said...

Love the bee...how'd you get him to fly in just as you were taking pictures??

Johnson Family said...

I saw him on a nearby plant so I chased him down. He was so focused on his job though it wasn't tough.