Figure 1 – Passion Pink Coneflowers with bumblebee. Salem Maritime National Historic Site, July 2020, Salem, MA.

I continue to be intrigued and delighted this season by all the glorious shades of the cone flowers. And invariably they are accompanied by bumblebees. Today I encountered these beautiful passion pink flowers and captured the bee close up right on top of the flower. The iPhone is excellent for this.