
There WAS a reason!

The word hum is related to the Middle High German hummen and thus to the modern German Hummel – meaning bumble bee. Fun fact: While bees need at least 10 °C to be out and about bumble bee workers fly already at 6 °C because the vibration of their pectoral muscles vibrate to generate heat. Which in turn makes the fairly loud humming noise of bumble bees.
This is a favourite German Easter treat. No, it’s not a chocolate cockroach as our American friends suspected and only asked me incredulously: “WHY?” It’s a May beetle made of chocolate.

I’m not really back from holidays. I don’t want to be back. But I peaked in today’s Ragtag Daily Prompt and I couldn’t resist sharing this photo. It’s a queue. A queue of flamingoes. They did come closer to our resort’s beach and I will show photos of them at a later stage. But how could I resist this prompt?
BTW: The fly by (actually quite a few fly byes during half an hour) was spectacular.
After our misunderstanding last weekend ( –> Henry’s Ordeal ) we were treated with some disdain by our cat. He looked away purposefully whenever we tried to approach him:

I resorted to bribery:

It seems to have worked; the men were united once again:

Whereas I was noticeably considered an intruder:

“What’s a matter, you!? Gotta no respect?!”