Ducklings!

No bees this year, but a mama duck brought her ducklings through our yard to Valentina's garden, and then all the way back through our yard to Claire's yard.  If you click on the picture, you can see them up close.

Goodbye to Jack the Cat

'A young man in the dark am I

But a wild old man in the light

That can make a cat laugh, or

Can touch by mother wit

Things hid in their marrow bones

From time long passed away,

Hid from all those warty lads

That by their bodies lay.

                                                          Day-break and a candle end.

William Butler Yeats