A dozen purple for Susi

I was looking over the garden this morning, and thinking there happened to be lots of purple just now. So of course that brought back memories of Susi. We met because we started at the same time at Skystone. She had the window office and I had the inside office just opposite. She was a young engineer fresh out of school, while I was an old cynical worker bee. (As an aside, 20-some years later, she's still young, and I'm still old and cynical.) She's the one that infected me with the triathlon bug.

As a bonus, there's a bee butt shot for her, though it isn't quite as clear as I'd like it. Wrong lens and it took me by surprise. Again, no of the day suspects, just so you aren't scrolling forever.

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3. The mint is just getting started. It's a bee magnet throughout the summer, but there's just a few bees checking it out now, no doubt making plans for future expeditions.

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9. The surprise bee butt photo. You'll have to look for it.

10. Almost more of bee wing photo than anything else. For the technically curious, this is 1/100 second.

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