Ray's Thought for the Day - Bee Fly Buddy

There's my buddy. Out of focus and off to the left of the Aesculus pavia nosegay. I have been trying to take my buddy's picture for weeks. But my buddy is anti-photogenic.

Apparently, this particular bee fly, if that is what my buddy is, a bee fly, has been assigned the role in nature: Watch Ray from different angles, but make sure Ray never gets a picture of ye. So that's what my buddy does, watch me from different angles, sometimes zipping up and hovering an inch or two from my nose.

My buddy never seems to land on anything. He seems permanently limited to zipping, hovering, and observing. What a carefree life that must be. No wonder the Goddess gave this bee fly, if that is what it is, a bee fly, the additional chore of observing, me.