Perhaps one of the hardest virtues is 'Patience'. Sometimes, waiting for something feels interminable. Those hours they just crawl by, those days, those years, perhaps even those decades for something that is long sought, long yearned for, long anticipated. Perhaps you give up in the end? Perhaps it will never come?
Spring is like that. The bees that must last long through the Winter until the time when the nectars return again- it is practically their whole lifetime. Indeed, their lifespan must last longer than those Summer worker bees whose lifespan, in the industriousness of the collecting season, live mere weeks.
CBC has been fretting over the bees. Where are they? Why weren't they coming.
But there they are, enjoying our Passiflora flowers in abundance and now beginning to explore the newly purple Lavender (the photo below is from before that time) . Perhaps they have been checking the Lavender daily, to see if there is any ready yet and then when it reached maturity, that patient checking bee performed the Waggle Dance for the other bees to follow and to come and drink deep of the nectar.
Similarly, CBC was fretting over our Rose bush which my Mum cut right down to a stump in February. It seemed to do little for a long while. Now, they are towering above us and absolutely covered in yellow roses which now (again, these flowers are from before) are fully blooming and they are so shockingly bright from our bedroom window!
It took month patience rather than years, decades or a lifetime for CBC's fears to be abated, but the same principle applies: Be patient, be hopeful and wait for it to reach you, whatever it may be!
I hope you have a wonderful week!
xx
