The Weight of a Honey Bee

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A breeze was moving these flowers back and forth except for one weighted down by a honey bee collecting pollen.

A tenth of a gram–that’s that dull, scientific answer to “how much does the average honey bee weigh. The artistic response is “enough to stop a flower from moving in the wind.”

Published by 67steffen

My labels: grandfather, father, veteran, writer, poet, photographer and dreamer in pursuit of the meaning of life. Getting close, although I'm running out of time--probably why I'm so close.

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