My body has not been cooperating with me. Why? The weather has been so wonderful that I am spending more and more time outside. I started working outside for about 20 minutes, then advancing to thirty minutes to 45 minutes and then the hour. However with the storms coming and going and my persistence of staying out longer my body has been very sore. So the other day, while slowing down, I was watching two bumblebees circle around each other. They would spiral up and then back down to about a foot or two above the soil. Up and down always in a circle. I was fascinated about this flight pattern. My first thought was a mating dance. It seems that bees, insects, animals, birds all have their own unique rituals. Look at us humans, with our own myriads of proper courtship. With most of them having been learnt from the many animals and birds that surround us. This morning while Ellen and I were drinking our coffee along with breakfast sweets, she noticed two bumblebees connected swirling around and around, up and down, always staying connected. They remind me of the American Bald Eagles where the lock their talons together climbing higher and higher then plummeting to the earth, talons still locked swirling ever faster, thinking that at any moment they will crash to the earth. You probably wonder what this all means while my body is in such pain. I was forced to sit and slow down and while slowing down on the yard work, I have noticed so much, missed if I was involved with pulling weeds. I have also noticed the many different types of butterflies, this spring, the Red Admiral, the Morning Cloaks, the Painted Ladies, the Commas and others. The short life span of butterflies, some have days, other a month, regardless they have enough time to accomplish all that is necessary in their short life. I hope that the same is with us, in our short life, we all have just the right amount time to experience life. With a wink and a nod-HeWal