It was a lovely, somewhat steamy late-spring afternoon, and the bees were busily at work along Piney Woods Church Road, dashing from clover to clover. I watched one highly enthusiastic bumblebee darting from one flower head to the next, with each new landing causing the blossom to flop over onto the ground. I suppose, given the clover’s need to get pollinated, it was worth the weight.
The late-day light swept across the cattle pasture, illuminating the white clover growing there in abundance. There is such beauty in everyday rural landscapes.
For several days, I have been trying, without success, to capture an interesting image of the white clover (Trifolium repens) now blooming along the edge of a field along Piney Woods Church Road. Introduced from Europe, this member of the pea family is now common across North America. So easily overlooked, in this photo white clover shines as the star of the rural landscape.
