Okay…
So at work one day, we found a dead bee (or is it a wasp? I don’t know my insects)… we found this

adorable but dead little creature in a box of Arm and Hammer baking soda or something… which had been placed in the fridge in some kind of feeble attempt at scenting/de-scenting/sanitising/desiccating the space most in danger of re-inventing biology from the ground up, from putrefying forgotten food.

But all that packet of baking soda caught was this dead bee-thing (how the hell did it even get IN there!). Anyhow. I can tell you that this discovery made my day. Instead of getting on with work, I tried taking pictures with cellphones but it was too fuzzy. So I had to take it home, in a carefully folded bit of tissue. I can  also tell you that ppl thought I was some kind of nutty necrophilic headcase.

But it was like the cutest bee ever! I took tons of macros when I got home. I hope it had a sunny life. I decided it to make it the ‘sun’, in this piece called “Sunflower”. It is is a superimposition made with the photos of those ice formations.

I wished it well and let it fall to the earth near our porch, into Mother Nature’s kind and cruel arms.

(You can click the image to see the larger version)