Botany Bees

I found this poem yesterday as I was finishing Ross Conrad's book. It sums up very beautifully why I started keeping bees and why I can't wait for spring.

Botany Bees

Full many a tomato plant

Would never blush nor bear,

Without the bee to gallivant

And shift some pollen there.

She travels in the honey line,

But sets the vines aglow;

Which shows the finest things we do

Are not the things we know.

I do not care for honey much,

And yet I prize the bee;

The fair tomatoes that I love,

She makes 'em blush for me.

-Chicago Daily News