You've perhaps seen the bumper stickers that say things like, "This car stops at all garage sales!" or Vehicle stops at all quilt shops, light houses, covered bridges, nurseries, insert your passion or interest here. These stickers are parodies of safety notices like, "This Vehicle stpos at all raliroad crossings." Since carrying my camera with me more often and always having my eye out for things of interest while I'm driving, I'm thinking that my car should have a sticker that reads, "Caution! This Vehile Stops for No Apparent Reason!
Recently, on my way home from work, I spotted a huge bed of Lavandula stoechas or Spanish Lavender outside of the county courthouse in full bloom, the sun shining gloriously on it. You'd pull over for that, right?
On closer inspection
The upper part of the courthouse has so much of this stuff growing in huge beds that it's almost overwhelming!
There's quite a buzz about it!
It was quite nice, on this unseasonably warm (86 degrees F) day to enjoy the warmth, the sun, and the industrious bees.
The combination of the colors of Lavender and honey bees was wonderful! The bees didn't like to pose for the camera, though.
I wonder if there's a bee keeper nearby as there were a lot of happy bees flying around.
I like breaking randomly to get out and enjoy little bits of nature in places as unlikely as a courthouse/jail complex in the middle of an urban area.
How about you, caused any accidents lately?
