Planetary Alignment

Flower Friday: Globe Thistle or EchinopsCathy will tell me what this is shortly(!)

The bees absolutely love these - I have shots featuring 3 or even 4 of these bumble-fellows, but the size of the globe head means that most of the bees are out of the focal plane, so I have instead settled for this shot of the flower head with just a single bee instead.

With thanks as always to Biker Bear for hosting Flower Friday.