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It makes me so happy to see the bees and the butterflies fly from flower to flower on my balcony. The marigolds are still in bloom, and through the kitchen window I can see the cucumber plants, covered in yellow flowers, climbing up against the espalier. And the insects find their way up to my third floor balcony, its flowers and the plate of water that I’ve left out there for them in this very dry August we’re having. The marauding tit from the spring hasn’t come back since June and only a couple of times have I seen the squirrel that used to hang out in my neighbor pine tree every morning last autumn. But I have the butterflies and the bees now.
Photo: Bee on a dahlia in Jardin botanique de la Charme in Clermont-Ferrand, France, October 2018. Posted on Instagram August 23, 2020.
Katja Malmborg 