The year the BEES left Gainesville, Georgia.
May 27/07: The Sunday evening before Tom's Birthday, I walked out onto our deck. It was a clear and sunny day,
mid afternoon. I became very unsettled because I first felt a very different vibration and then my hearing picked
up on this tremendous high pitched sound above my head. It was a GREAT buzzing sound which I have never heard before.
My first thought was ETs over head, as I gained the courage to look up I saw a huge swarm of bees gathered in the branches
of the old pine tree over our deck! I instantly ran back into the house, closed the sliding glass door and called my husband
Tom to check out this phenomenon that was occuring right before our eyes. I've never seen any thing like this in my
life!
This was a huge swarm of honey bees of all sizes gathering in our back yard only 50 feet from the ground. We could
not stop watching them. We peered through the binoculars and watched them up close.....it looked like a giant nest in the
pine tree with probably 10,000 honey bees layered upon themselves.
The buzzing was also a great sound and the consciousness of that many bees gathered together in one place made the energy
above our heads vibrate at such a high frequency that it was unsettleing to say the least.
I felt afraid. The thought of all those bees letting loose and flying down into our home made me very uneasy.
We would die for sure. That was Sunday afternoon.
Monday the Swarm was still there and growing, and now several small honey bees were in our sunroom trapped by the glass
windows. The energy around our home was buzzing for sure, my mind was beginning to buzz, darting here and there,
it was hard to stay focused. Tom and Tripp went on with there daily routine, but these bees had my constant attention.
Frankly I wanted all of them to leave the tree and soon. I called my sister telling her the BEES were here.
It felt as though we were in a movie. BEES, BEES, BEES, BUZZING BUZZING BEES!
Tuesday, the Swarm was still hanging on and it looked to be much larger than the day before. I researched on the
net for possible answers to this experience with nature that I had never seen before.
My nerves were feeling frayed, my emotional body felt like crying and crying or maybe I felt like screaming to the top
of my lungs. I felt the presence in consciousness of all these bees gathering over our home.
Bee consciousness is very busy energy. Imagine yourself as a bee, flitting from flower to flower gathering pollen,
walking over every flower and then flying all over looking for more flowers to walk on. Well that's what my mind and
heart experienced....it was "driving me crazy", as my mom would say. Thousands of bees at one time for several
days in my aura was really getting to me.
I decided to pray for them. In my research I found that a swarm would be looking for a crevices to claim as
their own. I saw photos of bees in garages, and inside exterior walls of homes or fixed around electrical boxes in basements
even! I image now that was my greatest fear, the bees would take up residence somewhere in our home! So I
prayed.
It was mid afternoon and I curled up in the fetal position on our bed and begin to focus on these thousands of bees
finding their special crevices to call home somewhere out in the woods! I prayed to the Queen Bee, please take your
swarm and leave that tree.
It was about an hour or so later when I got up from praying to look, THEY WERE GONE! There was so much relief,
I can't tell you. I was so grateful and felt so happy that my prayers were answered. I felt my family and
pets were safe. I wondered if they had moved into the house ....so I walked all around the outside of the house, there
were no bees anywhere to be seen going or coming from outside the house or garage. Good, they had found a crevice and
they were making a new home for themselves.
I shared this story with everyone I spoke to. It was a wonder for sure, something I had never seen before in my
58 years on the planet. Each time I shared the story a feeling of depression would hit me for some reason, I would
cast it aside and continue on, but I wasn't feeling the urge to plant my annual flowers.?.....wonder when I would feel like
planting those flower beds.?.....ummmmmm....and then I would get busy doing my daily seva and think, I'll plant in a
few days.
I finally planted my flower beds for Mother's Day. That's very late for me to be out digging in the Earth.
As I was digging I realized for the first time that there were NO BEES in my garden, AT ALL.
No bees walking on any spring flower, no honey bees, no bumble bees, no pollinators to shoe away, or be afraid of being
stung by. Nope, there wasn't a single bee to be aware of at all. THE BEES WERE GONE!
Every where I go here in my community I look to see if a single bee is flying on any of the beautiful flowers that sit
outside the grocery store, line the median of the highway....are they at the flower shop in town, or at Lowe's or Walmart,
or Home Depot? NO. There are NO BEES in our town right now.
I wanted to write my story because I said that prayer to ask them to leave. I didn't want them to leave completely,
I just wanted them to find a home and settle in, somewhere out in our woods. It's so incredible too, because I
had been so focused on finding a new home for us as a family too. I had been buzzing myself here and there looking at
potiential homes for us to move into. I couldn't find one. Although there are over 500 homes for sale in this area,
nothing appealed to me better than where we are right now. I'm just now realizing that for the first time. The similarities.
Now every where I go I ask the people tending the cash register, where are the Bees? They stop for a minute and then
they realize, there are no bees! Where are they? Where did they go? What do they know that we don't?
Why would our bees leave this beautiful garden?
What will happen to all our plants and shrubs that have long been pollinated by our bees?
It's very lonely in the garden without the bees, I wonder if those bedding plants I put in will even thrive because they
miss the bees walking on them too.
I miss the bees, I'm sad because the bees have flown away from here.
I imagine that this swarm was gathering for those days all the bees in Gainesville, from here to Lowes that's
for sure. Can you imagine how many bees were gathered ?
They were all here! For three days, the BEES GATHERED, then they flew away!
I am in wonderment, if that's a word. I wonder so much what is happening, or what will happen. I don't know
what happens to our plant kingdom without the help of the bees. I guess we will be finding out as the future unfolds.
I know one thing, I MISS OUR BEES this year. I long for them again.
More and more each day I am becoming aware of my LOVE for them and my gratitude that they once lived here with me and
helped our beautiful flower garden grow and thrieve.
I don't know why they left, I do know that this was the gathering place, but they left here....I wonder, should we?
What do they know, that we are going to find out, or should we take their lead?
Oh yes, I continue my research and I have found that the Bees have been reported missing in 26 States, Florida being
the first to report. Also in Canada. In the Western States the Bees are simply dying off.
No one has any answers just now, the mystery continues.
This has happened in the past too. The year 1915 was the first year in recorded history. Now this is too
mysterious! That's my mother's birth year, she would have been 91 years this year, but she passed away three months
before her 91st birthday....the same year that the BEES LEFT GAINESVILLE, she too left Gainesville. Very Interesting.
Dreamweaver 5/27/07.
