This summer has been cool and rainy. Earlier this week, the mercury finally managed to hit 30 degrees Celsius! Being a heat-lover, I couldn't resist taking the camera out for a little while. It was almost as though the bees and butterflies felt the same. They were out in full force in the front yard. Unlike the lazy days of early summer where a bee might spend a few minutes investigating a single flower, these bees were just giving 'er - frantically flying back and forth like gluttons at an all-you-can-eat buffet. They were moving so fast they were hard to photograph... I took nearly 50 photos, and these were the only ones that were (close enough to being) in focus.