If you ever wondered how bees serve as pollinators, or if you slept through high school biology class, just sit by a Rosemary plant in full bloom and you will learn. Plus, the pungent aroma of the Rosemary will start you salivating and hungry for a savory Rosemary-forward dish for dinner. When I put the garbage can back after yesterday’s pick up, it was quite warm because the sun was out and the warmth brought out the aroma of the gigantic Rosemary shrub under the equally gigantic lemon tree on the side of my house by the gate. I walked over to admire the shrub which was covered in small lavender colored flowers. I heard buzzing and I knew the Honey Bees were hard at work extracting nectar from the tiny blossoms. I never pass up a photo op if I can help it so I went inside and returned with my Nikon Z8 with the 105mm Macro lens attached. I sat on my gardening bench and waited. At least half of the photos I took showed the stamen rubbing the top of the bee’s head as the bee extracted nectar from the flower. So that’s why every bee buzzing around had white pollen sprinkled on its head and thorax. Hmmm. And the next flower it visited would get some of that pollen. A biology lesson in my own backyard. Genius.