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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf and take an insect view of its plain.
Henry David Thoreau

22 Comments CherryPie on Aug 29th 2010

Filed under Gardens, Out & About

Spring Colours

These pictures were taken in Hodnet Hall Gardens last May and remind me that the gardens are coming into bloom and I will soon be able to get out and enjoy them again.
Although there aren’t many flowers out yet I have seen rather a lot of bumble bees, especially in my garden. There have [...]

20 Comments CherryPie on Apr 26th 2010

Filed under PhotoHunt

PhotoHunt – Average

A bee and a flower of average size.
Trying to find a photo that might fit this theme left me pondering on the meaning of average; size, height, intelligence, beauty etc etc.
It left me with the thought that average is often used in the context that anything above is exceptional and anything below is sub standard. [...]

8 Comments CherryPie on Feb 5th 2010

Filed under This & That

Back to the Bees

When I shared some interesting facts about bees recenly, Denise pointed me to this online petition to save the honeybee. The petition is calling for the banning of neonicotinoids which is a type of pesticide which was first used in the 1990s which co-insides with when the mass bee disappearances started occurring.
Neonicotinoids work as an [...]

10 Comments CherryPie on Jul 20th 2009

Filed under Books, This & That

It is all About Bees

I am currently reading What on Earth Happened?… In Brief (the planet life and people from the big bang to the present day). It is full of interesting facts and today I learned some interesting facts about bees, I had no idea there were so many different species of bee.

Bees descended from wasps and emerged [...]

15 Comments CherryPie on Jul 14th 2009

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