I love to watch bees, always have. When very little I used to try to pet them and got stung sometimes, depending on the type of bee. This one was too busy to notice me taking it's photo in my garden. Cosmos have the lovely lacy foliage too. I plant them in front of anything I want to hide!

I noticed this year when they showed the cherry blossoms in Washington DC there were no bees in them. I saw them on Martha Stewart's show, The View, and some news shows. Different times of day and all but not one bee.

I don't use pesticides so the bees are welcome here...:-)

Took this with my second-hand Olympus, Camedia C-2500L, 2.5 mp, digital