Vanishing Bees, afterthought 神隠しの蜜蜂...修正

神隠しの蜜蜂...修正 (Vanishing Bees), an afterthought:

At Sauvie Island, I stood in a field full of flowers in the late afternoon: sunflowers, zinnias, gladiolus, cosmos, you name it. The crickets were humming away and there were birds mobbing the sunflowers, boisterous and happy, eating the seeds from the heavily laden heads. There were bumblebees everywhere gathering pollen, but only a few solitary honeybees to be found.

I was sad to see that even here, where there ought to be tons of bees, alas that there are so few.