Outside back cover of _Mayflower_ magazine, September 1892, Floral Park, New York, USA. I wasn't able to fully restore this one because the damage was so extensive. Maybe if I could figure out how to soak the leaf in water for a while and press it flat? Perhaps I'll try my hand at physical restoration.
#garden #gardening #flowers #horticulture #photography #bloomscrolling #botany #narcissus #chionodoxa #hyacinth
Like the sun in a blue sky,a single celandine among the Chionodoxa

#Celandine #chionodoxa #Buttercup #GloryOfTheSnow #Spring #SpringFlowers #Bulbs #Blue #Yellow #BlueFlowers

#EasterSunday sitting in a sunny garden with the birds singing away and watching a hefty #BumbleBee queen bending the #chionodoxa flowers down under her weight.

I'm reminded of this paper that describes the physics of #Bees in flight. (TL;DR they move their wings at about 230Hz in broadly horizontal figures of 8 rather than flapping up and down)

Fascinating application of #Aerodynamic theory.

#Nature and #Science are both amazing.

#Flying

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0506590102