a little better this time. 167 words and I think they were pretty decent.

a pitiful 47 words but they smoothed out a few bumps.

I bought a couple of pots of "Mexican petunias" from Walmart and left them on my front walk. They are bush-like but covered in purple flowers that look like petunias. They flower just before dawn, with the flowers all falling off around four o'clock in the afternoon. They do this every day.

Shortly after I left them, I noticed that a solitary bumble bee would come every early morning and dive deep into each of the flowers. Then, around three o'clock in the afternoon a solitary bumblebee (I'm guessing the same one) would come, but wouldn't go inside any of the flowers. Instead, it would go behind the flower, to its base, of each flower.

I figure the flower was getting ready to drop off and had formed a fissure with the stem, and the bee was accessing the nectar through that break. Kinda smart!

That's so cool! Good luck with your trees. Around here crab apples are some of the prettiest trees.

I've got a neighbor who has some alliums and I love them, but I don't have any myself. We've got voles too, I'm sure.

I've been put off by the supermarket price of $30 for a showy deep blue orchid, also not sure if it is real color or a dye. Of course the other issue is the expense of buying a plant I will almost surely kill.

I had to give up on alliums because the voles eat them, but at least that's not my fault.