David bumbles into Bumbles
David was simply stirring up the many native seedlings that grow in their gravelled (metalled) paths yesterday, when along comes Lorraine, and says “Did you see the BumbleBee nest?”. Obligingly the first bumble bee that David had seen then appears seemingly on cure and David answers “No – where is?”
Lorraine goes to the edge of the drive where lies a log, and where David had just stirred up the gravel a moment ago. There she starts to gently move pieces of gravel away one at a time. She mutters her frustration as the gravel slids in on itself as fast as she removes it, until a bumblebee pushes its way out, then another, and another. Others a circling and wondering what is going on. The little bees get out first, then she clears more gravel, and sees a bigger movement, know a larger bumble is moving the stones beneath trying to get out. With a little more delicate movement of the stones it is liberated to.
Then Lorraine places a small piece of bark to stabilise the gravel at the entrance, and to shed the rain. The bumbles seem to accept this coming and going in greater numbers as life returns to normal.
Some bees however seem to fly straight in, and others take time to figure out the changes. David says “Once some know the others will soon learn. The first will teach the rest”.
She watches, and everything seems normal. She leaves, David knows where the nest is when he next stirs the gravel and halts the advance of the forest edge yet again.
You can read more of their experiences at http://harmonyfarm.wordpress.com at http://www.gemstonetherapy.info, and in other articles within this very blog.
Forest Gardening meets Deep and Spiritual Ecology 