There is a tiny pond on a flat spot in the 40 foot slope between Roger’s Pond and the Mousam River…it looks like a garden pond in fact…and it is full of water plants and flowers. This is Broadleaf Arrowhead, which had come into bloom between visits. As a bonus, which I did not actually see until I was editing the image, we have a tiny Carpenter Bee of some kind…a member of the Small Carpenter Bee clan. To provide scale here, the flower is just over an inch wide. There are actually two bees. One is up under the yellow center of the flower. And as a super-bonus, there is also a really tiny aphid front and center below the yellow.

Canon SX40HS. Program with iContrast and –1/3EV exposure compensation. This is a super-telephoto macro, taken at 1680mm equivalent field of view (840mm optical plus 2x digital tel-converter), from about 5 feet. f6.3 @ 1/1250th @ ISO 200. Processed in Lightroom for intensity, clarity, and sharpness. Some noise reduction applied to smooth out digital artifacts, especially in the background.