Roses

Creative is a photo of some of the roses that totally surround the bungalow....I am floating on heavenly scent...

Loads of bumble bees... there is a plant called Mallow which has just started coming out, outside my open window, and the bees completely cover it. The bees come in to say hi and then they fly out again.

In the meantime, the courtship between the female cellar spider and the male cellar spider is absolutely fascinating... I can be watching them for half an hour each time I go in the bathroom... they get closer and closer bit by bit, and then the male cellar spider makes the first move. He reaches out towards the female spider. The female spider initially recoils. Then He reaches out again, and She reaches out...and He strokes her longest extended leg, so tenderly. And she gives a very short abrupt leg stroke to hem... and so this goes on. They got so close the first time I saw it happen, that my mind said she's going to eat him... and so I left the bathroom. But surprise surprise when I returned, they were both still there...now I don't think she is going to eat him, I can watch for half an hour at a time!!!! It is actually beautiful to watch them.

Don't ask me for the individual names of their body parts or the proper names for their legs, I'd probably get in a tongue twister with that...

I did consider photographing them, but I thought you might like my roses better.... they are so skinny and delicate that they are just about impossible photograph with my phone but I am still trying...

Hot and still and muggy here. It was raining earlier....

Have a good day.

Thank you very much for all your lovely comments and stars...