Beautiful America: Small Things

When I take a walk, with camera in hand, I am usually looking for the little things. Bugs, bees, flowers… the tiny jewels, set into every landscape, no matter how urban.

Honeybee on sedum blossoms

Amid the brown, dead leaves, the bright jeweled berries of an arum.

Blackberries, beautiful, and delicious!

Autumn leaf under cold water.

The girls, hard at work - my Dad's honeybees.

One of the earliest flowers, bees flock to them.

Tiny butterflies are irresistible to little people!

A pollinator wasp on solidago.

A tiny pollinator on an evening primrose in Kentucky.

A wild sunflower with pollinators: Ohio.