Recent Dead Things In and About My Office

Weird thing about springtime - I never see some many dead things at any other time of the year.  In the past 10 days, I've seen the following in my office or around the office building itself:

1 - A whole mess of pill bugs on the carpet.  I discovered them when I swapped my heater for my fan. 

2 - Wasp on the windowsill.  This one started out alive, banging and banging and banging itself against the window pane, trying to get out.  I did try to effectuate a rescue operation, but by time I found a box with a lid, it was dead.

3 - Dead sparrow on the sidewalk.  I would have never noticed it, but for the odd flight behaviour of another sparrow, which tried to hover, flew away, came back and flew away again.

But there is life, too.  A big fat bumblebee just indulged in an orgy of pollen from the azaleas in front of my window.

Not my azaleas, these are found in Memphis, TN.  Image courtesy of the blogger, Southern Heart.

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So! Do! La! Fa! Me! Do! Re!

I can't figure out if this was staged or spontaneous. But who cares anyway - it's wonderful.

EDIT - I did a little research, at this was, in fact, staged. It was a promotion for a new reality show. But like I said before, who cares?

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