Swarming Season

I was walking several days ago and this man told me that there was a swarm a bees around the corner and that he'd never seen anything like it. Same.

Not sure what I was expecting but there were about 200 or more bees and I was thinking about the problem that the homeowners had on their hands because the bees were right about the walk to the house.

When I went back later, the bees were gone. 

Mentioned it to a friend who took "overflow" bees from her dad and she said, "It's swarming season; hope they like their new home."

How is it that I've never seen a swarm of bees before? I also saw a goldfinch in my yard for the first time...

Went to my aunt's, along with my mother, to finish watching the National Geographic Series, Genius:Aretha. 

My aunt sang along until they got to the more modern Aretha songs like "Sister Are Doin' It For Themselves" and I Knew You Were Waiting For Me" and she was like "I don't know that one..." and I totally knew them but never thought much, at the time, how artist fight to stay relevant.

Walked in the park and spotted a woodpecker. Also enjoyed the tulips in the park and wanted to see them before the next set of flowers appear. 

And I am still enjoying my tulips. There are still a few more that are about to bloom. 

And now I feel brave enough to try to plant zinnias -- fingers-crossed. 

Due Process

In the Fall, decided to do an outdoor singing bowl event but I had some ambivalence about it and didn't advertise as I should have. My friend, Ramona, said that she would help me so we were out in the park yesterday. 

Ramona suggested that I dress up and I told her a story about how Anita Baker said that she wished that when she'd first started out that she had dressed like Tracy Chapman. "Ramona," I said, “I'm Tracy Chapman."

Don't like to dress up but I did put on a cute t-shirt. Don't care for staged photos etc. etc.

At any rate, I played singing bowls and Ramona set up her camera and, at one point, she laid down on the grass and I wanted to take a picture but I was being filmed. Ha, the tables, er, camera had been turned on me.

Afterward Ramona told me how nice it was to listen to the singing bowls along with the birds -- not so nice were the emergency vehicles and dogs jockeying for position. 

And speaking of emergency vehicles, make it make sense. 

Stopper over an f'n air freshener; that's so predatory.

Other People's Tulips

Other people's tulips are blooming.

Had to remind myself that I put the bulbs in the ground a bit late. There are at least three flowering stems so maybe I can develop a green thumb after all. 

Went over to my aunt's for dinner yesterday and a doctor that she used to work with called and told her that another one of their colleagues had died. My aunt kept saying, "Aw, man." She had passed by the woman's house a few days ago and it had been on my aunt's mind to call her. My aunt said that she should have followed her instincts.

Following my instincts is a lesson that I must learn over and over again. I was helping my mother clean her room and came across a baby picture of one of my nephews and I was going to text it to him and then changed my mind. A couple of days later, he texted me to ask if I'd send some baby pictures of him because his wife wanted to make a collage...

Talked to a customer at work and told him that we'd have to arrange a time to meet at the front door because we have a maximum number of days that we are able to be in the office and the customer said that he had yet to return to the office and, from talking to others, very few want "normal" again. 

Before my aunt got news about her colleague, she did make me chuckle. Said that she had been wearing COVID clothes so much that she was barely able to fit into her church clothes.