I truly lucked out on Sunday afternoon when I went for a walk up for some delicious Carvel ice cream - camera in hand.  See, before I went for Carvel, and before meeting up with my favorite frog, I walked up my block and happened to look briefly at this blooming purple rose and found a bee doing what I can only describe as a humping motion while it was head deep in pollen.

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I think that I was quite lucky to catch this bloom just then, since it appeared to be at its fullest, and would have been just happy enough to get a photo of the bloom, THAT BEE made it all the more better.  I love that this shot shows the wings of the bee being pulled back as far as they can go and its back right leg is stretched out as far as it can go so that it could gets its face and front antenna all in that pollen.

Way cool!