A Colorful Walk and a Metallic Green Bee

I went for a walk yesterday to take a break from work on my computer. I was about 5 minutes into my walk when I found myself looking at all the beautiful colors along the side of the road. I decided to head back and grab my camera to carry along with me. I don't know the names of many of these plants, but they sure are beautiful to look at. On my walk back I stopped to look at the tall red ball flowers, which are by far my favorites. They are so odd and so beautiful at the same time. On the top of one of the flowers was a metallic green bee. I googled "green bee" and found other images on line, but couldn't find out why this bee was green. It was beautiful and I love that the green bee was on a red flower. Made for a great picture. I didn't adjust saturation in any of these images, I added a bit of contrast but that is all. Click on the images to make them a bit larger.