Lagoonfire proof, cosmos and bees

[asakiyume]

The mail brought a welcome item--my uncorrected proof for LAGOONFIRE!



I must go through it carefully and root out typos! The Polity approves of rooting out errors.

Last book featured a deity who wasn't ready to be retired. This one features a bunch of retired gods. How do they spend their time? How does the Polity treat them? You can learn a lot about a government by how it treats its decommissioned deities.

I've been spending too much time just working, but when I'm not, I step outside to enjoy the cosmos ... by which I mean the flower called cosmos, but hey, it's part of the bigger cosmos, so both things, actually.



Seems like each blossom held its own bee:


By the time I got those photos, late-ish today, the bees all seemed to be sleeping, but this morning they were active, flying blossom to blossom, but always politely socially distancing when they saw a blossom was already occupied.

It's past 5 pm, local time. Have an autumn brew.

Comments

[pameladean]

Your photos were a balm to my heart. Outside, the last two or so inches of a record October snowfall are falling, very beautifully, but weighting down the still fully-leafed, partly-green branches of the Norway maples. There's already a branch the size of a decent sapling lying in the front yard from recent high winds. I only hope it may not be joined by any more before this all melts or gets rained away later in the week.

P.

[asakiyume]

Oh no! You have my heartfelt sympathy and empathy. There was a year we had an October blizzard; it brought down many trees--hopefully you don't get that amount of snow :( :(