Deep Burn -- Fort Collins, Colorado
“The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.”
-- Ferdinand Foch

Breakfast At Tiffany's -- Fort Collins, Colorado
“Even though the bee is small, there she is on the flower, doing something of value. And the value she creates there contributes to a larger ecosystem of value, in that mountain meadow, in that range of mountains, in the world and even the universe. And can’t you just feel how happy she is?”
-- Jay Ebben

A tiny bee, maybe a type of carpenter bee or sweat be (?), gathers pollen from the flower of a Morning Glory plant. If you look closely at the full-size version of this, you can see the individual grains of white pollen that have stuck to the bee's legs - they look like tiny jewels. :)

Gotta Have Flair -- Fort Collins, Colorado
"Personality is essential. It is in every work of art. When someone walks on stage for a performance and has charisma, everyone is convinced that he has personality."
-- Lukas Foss

This fancy fellow is a Dogwood Clearwing Borer Moth. I found him sipping nectar from one of the yarrow plants in my backyard a couple of weeks ago. It actually looks like he has tail feathers.

UPDATE: Thanks to +Seth Burgess for the identification!

From the Missouri Botanical Garden website:

"The dogwood borer, Synanthedon scitula, one of about seven borers that attack dogwoods, is the most serious. It also attacks flowering cherry, chestnut, apple, mountain-ash, hickory, pecan, willow, birch, bayberry, oak, hazel, myrtle, and loquat. Wounded trees are the most vulnerable since the larvae must gain access to the tree through wounds or scars. The adult is a clear wing moth which looks like a wasp."

Taken -- Fort Collins, Colorado
"A photograph is neither taken nor seized by force.
It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you.
One must not take photos."
-- Henri Cartier-Bresson

An insect's-eye view of a large Big Sky Harvest Moon Coneflower ( Monrovia ) at the CSU Annual Trial Garden in Fort Collins...

Goin' To The Well -- Fort Collins, Colorado
"Enjoy the satisfaction that comes from doing little things well."
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

A honeybee investigates the depths of a giant Eye Candy Hibiscus flower in the CSU Annual Trial Garden in Fort Collins...

When Flowers Dance -- Fort Collins, Colorado
“She is magic! But she does not know it!
When she laughs the world stops for a while...”
― Avijeet Das

A Painted Lady butterfly sips nectar in a flower garden on a warm spring day in northern Colorado...

Long Story Short -- Cleveland, Ohio
“A book says a simple thing in a complicated way. A photograph says a complicated thing in a simple way.”
-- Author Unknown

Hangin' In -- Fort Collins, Colorado
“Sometimes life gets weird. Hang in there, it gets better.”
― Tanner Patrick

A large wolf spider ( Lycosidae ) suns himself in the early morning light on the leaf of a Lamb's Ear plant...

#SpiderSunday

As It Passes -- Fort Collins, Colorado
“Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.”
— Henry David Thoreau

A large cottonwood and its attendant offspring cast a long reflection in the Poudre River east of Fort Collins a few autumns ago...