Tag Archives: bergamot

A hummingbird buzzes into the garden...

By Dave Bonta | Published September 3, 2011 at 11:00 am

A hummingbird buzzes into the garden, and I follow her bill to the last bergamot flower’s four thin flagons. A truck clatters past.

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Overcast and quiet. A silver-spotted...

By Dave Bonta | Published July 24, 2011 at 9:18 am

Overcast and quiet. A silver-spotted skipper drinks from the bergamot, threading the thin purple tubes with its proboscis and leaning in.

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A pair of bindweed trumpets side-by...

By Dave Bonta | Published July 2, 2011 at 7:48 am

A pair of bindweed trumpets side-by-side. Nearby, an Oswego tea plant wrapped in webbing swarms with baby spiders no bigger than asterisks.

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Last night’s wet snow sticks...

By Dave Bonta | Published February 8, 2011 at 9:44 am

Last night’s wet snow sticks here and there—blank spaces on the wind’s map. One of the 50-odd bergamot heads still wears a toque blanche.

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Three hummingbirds circle the blowsy...

By Dave Bonta | Published July 24, 2010 at 7:42 am

Three hummingbirds circle the blowsy remains of the bergamot at sunrise. One lands on a bare twig and grooms her breast feathers.

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The bergamot is beginning to open,...

By Dave Bonta | Published June 28, 2010 at 6:40 am

The bergamot is beginning to open, a wash of purple spreading from inner bracts to adjacent leaves as if heralding the rise of a purple sun.

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The first beebalm’s forked, scarlet...

By Dave Bonta | Published June 25, 2010 at 7:53 am

The first beebalm’s forked, scarlet tongues. Nearby on a still-green bergamot bud, a netwing beetle’s antennae test the sudden sunlight.

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Come hummingbird and bring some glitter...

By Dave Bonta | Published July 23, 2009 at 9:07 am

Come hummingbird and bring some glitter to this damp gray morning, buzz around the bergamot, pizzazz at the beebalm’s one bedraggled bloom.

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A hummingbird checks me out before...

By Dave Bonta | Published August 11, 2008 at 8:19 am

A hummingbird checks me out before visiting the bergamot, and again afterwards. Then she zips down to the stream for the briefest of drinks.

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A bumblebee working the bergamot clambers...

By Dave Bonta | Published July 30, 2008 at 9:15 am

A bumblebee working the bergamot clambers over a green shield bug that’s rooted to its straw, a tiny leaf swelling on a sap-filled stem.

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