Thanks for compliments. Happy to share with other gardeners.
Barb, I too thought perhaps some type of bee but, no, these are flies. Our mason bees/blue bees are done very early in the season, end of May or so. I once caught one on a store window sill to release it and a man asked to see it as he was a fly tier and had never seen a live one. He had a look and we let the bee go. Google confirmed that they were flies.
From previous years.
My scarlet runners are hummingbird pollinated.
Rufous and resident Anna's sitting in the pruned apple branch I put out for them. They like to watch an area closely but if they are in the bushes I can't take pics. An added branch here or there does the trick.
Liking the teeny tiny Heuchera flowers.
This one with the schizostylis has quite a few missing feathers as he is molting.
One summer the veggy garden definitely took on a blue hue with the kale gone to seed and the toad flax that the finches liked the seeds of.
