The Tidy Tips are a'blooming and the bees are a'buzzing.
Honey Bee on Tidy Tips 
Close-up
The Tidy Tips, a native California wildflower (Layia platyglossa, family Asteraceae) is a welcome addition to flower beds.
If you walk behind the Sciences Laboratory Building on the University of California, Davis, campus, patches of Tidy Tips abound.
If it's cold, windy and rainy, no honey bees. If we're graced with a "sun break," here come the bees.
Sun break on the Tidy Tips...a sure sign of spring.