The Sweet Buzz of Spring

The clementine tree in our back yard is blossoming. The sweet, fresh smell fills our back yard.

The tree is also buzzing with bees. If Wikipedia's article is correct and the cross-pollination of bees might make my clementines lose their "desirable seedless characteristic, so "bee" it. I've been worried about bees since I started seeing their poor, logy little selves dying on the sidewalks a couple years ago (I've even posted about Colony Collapse Disorder before), and I don't mind a few seeds if it means healthy bees.

In my yard, there's no collapse. The bees are resurrected. We don't have a hive (which is good), just a lot of happy bees who don't seem to mind sharing the blossoms with me.

This is one of those posts I wish you could smell. I wish you could hear it, too. Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz....