Bee on Echinops

Well the rain really catches up with us today. I know it’s needed, so I really shouldn’t complain! 

We have a lunchtime concert to attend today in St Mary’s church in Conwy. It’s the town’s music festival this week, something established by a local music teacher some years back. It’s delightful and amazingly successful, with a series of classical concerts and recitals - at least three a day - all unticketed, with funding coming from both exit donations and local sponsorship. It shouldn’t work financially, but somehow it seems to! 

We’re treated to string quartets by Ravel and Faure performed beautifully by the Fitzsimmon Ensemble - well attended despite the weather.  

There has been a bit of a crisis at home this morning with G unable to find his wallet. It’s me who usually loses things - though they’re seldom lost, just carelessly misplaced, but when this happens to G it’s more likely to be serious. There’s the usual ‘when did you last use it’ question - and with our reliance on ApplePay it’s more difficult to pinpoint this.  

Eventually, he locates it to the roof of our car where he must have placed it last night - black on black disguising its presence - and it’s now a soggy mess. But at least it’s there, contents soaked but safe, and it’s just a case of drying out the various membership cards within! 

Amazingly by late afternoon the sun is out again so I’m also out in a rather drippy garden looking for blips. In the end I decide on a closeup of a honey bee on our Echinops - such popular flowers for pollinators.  I love the way their tiny flower spikes look like little freshly sharpened coloured pencils! Best viewed large!