Calamintha and bee

I have seen very, very few honey bees this year. Just the big fat bumbling ones, pictured here in the calamintha on the roof, with a single honey bee a few days ago.

Yesterday, out on the North Fork of Long Island, perennial scouting for some native meadow plantings, we saw lots of honey bees in Jim Glover's fields of flowers. It was heady stuff. Pictures later this evening.