Even a bee needs a place to vacation! This lovely photo was taken in Western Montana on National Forest land near St. Regis.
This is my entry into SteemUSA's Monday Photography challenge
My boys and I were walking alongside a creek where ice cold water flowed(in August). At one point, while my oldest was harvesting mouthfuls of delicious raspberries I noticed this patch of tall, bright green moss at the water's edge.
Turns out it is the perfect place for a bee or yellow-jacket to stop and refresh itself without fear of being gobbled by a trout or washed under and drown.
I hope you all had opportunities this summer to stop and enjoy the beauty in creation!
America, land of the beautiful and home of the kind!
Peace!!
I have seen moss similar to that before. Pretty cool. and neat to see the yellow jacket there getting a drink!
Sounds like a nice vacation! Will you be writing more about it for us?
Thx and good luck in the challenge!
Glad i checked on your post - I learnt something new...and that is important to me.
Tell your son, next time not to gobble up all the raspberries, to keep some for me :)
I think the bears were next in line for the berries! :-P
We really had a wonderful selection of delicious berries while camping! Thimbleberries, huckleberries, two varieties of raspberries, AND june berries/saskatoons.
Peace
lol - just took a closer look at your avatar pic...hope you never give your kids that look - real scary
I grew up in Tanzania, Arusha, which is close to the Equator, but is cool because of the altitude (Mt Kilimanjaro is close by).
On our coffee farm, we had a lot of raspberries and they are, still, more than sixty years later, the sweetest and largest I have eaten. Sometimes I wish I could fly back just for a taste of them again.
Lol! The cigar is photoshopped. The rest.....well.....it cant be helped!!
Actually...i forgot the very best berry we found on the trip...
Wild Strawberries!! These guys were barely bigger than bb's, but they were the sweetest, tastiest strawberries I had ever had! It was all thanks to my boy that decided to look for these tiny treasures amid a patch I pointed out. I just noticed the plants and was like "hey, strawberry plants" and he said look "cute little berries!"
I was in Greece (late 1970's) and was asked to take an American geologist up to the north of Greece. We took a look at what he wanted to see and then drove up a mountain, towards what was, at that time, the borders with Yugoslavia...
We stopped and walked around and the local Greek showed me some tiny strawberries, which were the sweetest I've ever tasted. He also got me to taste some tiny smooth red berries and they were also delicious.
Years later I went to Savonna in Italy and was taken to a restaurant on a cliff, by the seaside.
We had wild boar and at the end they proudly brought their speciality as they rarely have it. Tiny bowls with miniature strawberries and the smooth red berries were served and I recognised them as being what I had eaten in Greece. My host told me they are rare and extremely expensive, but because he was probably the top Italian poet at that time, the restaurant went all out to give him the best.
Funny that you would tell about the small strawberries to the one of the few persons who knows what you are talking about
:)
Teeter totter... i am a squatter...
Now give me so money, bro! :-P
Mary mary quite contrary ...
How does your yard stick grow?
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