Life All Around

Life is all around, in the nooks and crannies between the streets and buildings.  Sparrows and starlings are among the best urban adapted birds, along with pigeons in some areas and a few peregrine falcons that use the tallest buildings like mountain cliffs.  On warm days like today, where there are flowers, the bees will be out.  The sunflowers I've talked about before are spent and bedraggled, but just across the street is a landscaped area with some colorful little flowers.  I stopped for a bit on the walk home from yoga, and soon spotted a couple of large bees.

Wherever there are flowers, there seem to be bees, joined in this tight connection of plant and animal life, two parts of the larger system of energy collection and transfer, and propagation of life through time.