Everyone needs a little sunshine

[calzephyr]

If this sounds glurgy, I apologize in advance. Once again, I encountered a bee in distress. You know, I believe in the divine plan of the universe, even if it's not always apparent at first. To everything there is a reason. My original plan on this mostly gloomy Wednesday was to go to the library after work, but I missed the bus and just went home. I took a shortcut and came upon a poor little bee sprawled out on the sidewalk. Its little behind was orange and its little legs were splayed out; it was the very picture of exhaustion.


I love bees, truly, and it seemed such a shame for the little thing to end ingloriously smushed under someone's shoe. I scooped it up on a little scrap of paper, and here its little legs moved just a little. At first I thought about just putting it behind the newspaper box to wait for the end, but then I thought, maybe it just needed a little sun. After deciding that either flowerbed would be a poor choice due to ants, I gently placed it underneath the sheltering leaves of some petunias in a planter. They themselves only had a little more life left in them as the weather gets cooler.

About an hour later, I noticed that the sun had finally come out, so I checked on the planter. To my utter delight, it had warmed up and the bee had flown away. Godspeed little bee, if only for another day.

Comments

[cyanus-fire.livejournal.com]

awwww. did you sing a little trilly tune like Snow White when it flew away? I bet there was a rainbow in the sky and everything! :) heheh

[fledchen.livejournal.com]

Awwww. I'm glad you were able to help someone, even if it was a bee.

[alym0use.livejournal.com]

Awww, that's sweet :) I love bees too, but I'm not so fond of the wasps!

[calzephyr77.livejournal.com]

LOL, I wish :-) That would have been cool, just like in Enchanted.

[calzephyr77.livejournal.com]

Definitely! I wouldn't go out of my way to save one of those. Come to think of it, I'm not quite sure what wasps do in the grand scheme of things (except make nests under the front steps or something!)

[calzephyr77.livejournal.com]

It's definitely good for the karma piggy bank :-)