And, there they are. I am beginning to learn that each our mushroom types have their own timelines. Last week, the stinkhorns made their appearance. I remembered that soon after the stinkhorns came last year, these gems came up along the path in the woods. Looks like this year, they have found a better environment in the straw that we placed around the vegetable garden. I believe this is a pleated ink cap.
Remember: that is grass beside the mushrooms.
So fragile. And so beautiful.
I was in the garden at 6:30 making most of the coolness. Weeding and cutting back finished plants was my chore of the morning. My reward to myself was to look for mushrooms and anything else that may be happening in the gardens. There was a lot of dew in the woods. Bees and hummingbirds love these jewelweeds.
As I slowed down to pay attention, I noticed a few bumble bees flitting from one blossom to the next. It was like they were on a mission.
I followed one that landed on a cedar tree. It spent a few minutes poking at something in the crook of two branches. Curious, I googled nesting bumble bees in Ontario. They sometimes nest in holes and crevices in trees. My guess is that it was feeding its larva.
The things you see when you slow down!
Maybe the bumble bee was waiting for me! Waiting for me to slow down and pay attention to her.
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act,
just once,
with beauty and courage.
Perhaps everything that frightens us is,
in its deepest essence,
something helpless that wants our love.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
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