I'm the only bee in your bonnet

Toe,
I enjoyed your observation about the bee photo. I think you are right--it does seem strangely mammalian. There is something vulnerable about the top of any creature's head, and seeing something vulnerable like that raises all the mammalian instincts, the ones where we care about the small and the defenseless.

I love those instincts. I know that makes me in some ways less masculine than I am supposed to be, but I swear to fucking God, those are the instincts that will save us.

So, thank you for that.

I was testing the macro function on my camera when I took this photo, by the way. I also took a movie of a butterfly on a flower, at about the same distance as I was from this bee, but it didn't come out as well, because the flower was wobbling in the breeze.

So.
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