I went to my backyard to pick henna leaves (I use them as a conditioner for my hair more than on my hands). The sun is getting hotter day by day and I was standing still for a while, soaking it in. Then I ran for my camera (the smaller one, as I thought it would be faster to operate).
I was running for the camera because there were a lot of black bees real big ones and I had to take a picture! Sounds simple, isn’t it? They were sitting quite low till I didn’t had the camera.
And when I got back with the camera, first the ‘battery exhausted’ sign came. So, had to run inside to change the batteries. In the meanwhile all the black bees decided to hang on the top of the branches and remain there till eternity.
Now both my cameras don’t have good zoom. So there I was standing in the sun waiting patiently for the bees to climb down, so I could take a could picture. At first, I did this patiently.
Then I started to fret and fume. Then I decided to try the zoom anyway and I managed to click at least 10 pictures where the bee managed to vanish out of the frame just at the moment I decided to press the click button. One such picture is shown at the top of this section.
Then I decided that there were a lot of beans hanging low and I would pick them first. Then I decided that I will forget about a good picture and try to get a black bee in the frame anyway. They kept buzzing loudly all the while on the top branches out of the range of my camera’s zoom.
So after half an hour I managed to get on black bee in the frame. Moral of the story is to buy a good zoom lens for my SLR and click those bees sitting on the top branches from distance by zooming in within five minutes. Or so I hope.
Seems you are ankle is in great shape as you are managing to zip in and out of the house quite easily. Sitting silently doing nothing spring comes and….Master Chan would be sure that if you sat silently with the camera the bee would have posed for you, as you yourself observed. Buy a zoom if you want to and also procure some patience. Fretting and fuming because of bees is not proper. :oD
However, the bees you did manage to catch on the bean vine made the hair on the back of my neck stand up! I could almost hear them buzzing!Speaking of taking pictures of trees, when I was in India I tried to look for a drum-stick tree with fruits hanging….no success! I was wondering whether you could post a drumstick plus tree picture when you see one?
First, I am glad to “see” you run:))Obviously, you feel much better now!You have patience! What are those black bees? I can’t remember hearing about them.May I ask you how you do the Henna thing? I am one of those ignorant people who think Henna grows in Natural Food stores. Do you grind the leaves? Or how to you prepare them to use for your hair? Can you use them like a nettle infusion?
Oh, I forgot to wish you HAPPY VALENTINE:))
I miss my garden at my parent’s house in Chennai..filled with birds and bees 🙂
I am on my past landlady house tour. Thanks Mridula for the post.: )
I could picture all this, and it made me smile! How nice to have beans from your own backyard!
Thanks for the adcive Paradox, I would still go for zoom lens :DLucy, I think there is one somewhere nearby, I would surely click a picture and post.Fida, I do grind the leaves with a little water in a mixer and throw in some lemon juice too! I have no idea though that what did nettle analogy meant!I know i am very late but thank you Fida, same to you.I know lakshmi, I know but I was writing about flowers and bees :DThanks for stopping by Hobo.Yes Bindu, it is good to have a small patch of mud to plant things.
I am late again:) Thanks for the explanation on how to prepare henna!Nettle has a lot of silicon (for shiny hair)and also is good for (or against) flaky skin – but I don’t grind the leaves, I let them soak in boiling water for about 2 hours (at least).
Fida I have only tasted nettle soup twice but this information about it being good for hair is new to me. Thanks for sharing.