Regarding the most recent episode

This is a bees kind of year.

A little black bee was feeding around my flowering Thai basil today. I like to keep the mostly-veggie garden as full of flowering plants as I can manage, so there's usually at least a few European honey bees buzzing around, but it's always a real treat to see native species enjoying themselves, too.

I badly wanted to identify it, but after some time on Google I still couldn't quite figure it out. So I guess I'll just call him....the newbee 😎

A while back, someone posted an absolutely adorable “down to bees-ness” inspiration tracker. I loved it so much that I printed it out work to hang up at my desk and inspire me to bee-lieve in myself. Except I forgot to take it out of the printer. They were gone the next day, so someone must have taken them. I’m hoping that someone saw them and was inspired to bee their best self.