If you've ever visited the Storer Gardens, UC Davis Aboretum, you've probably noticed the honey bees enjoying the cenizo(Leucophyllum frutescens), an evergreen shrub with silvery foliage and bell-shaped pinkish-lavender flowers. 

It attracts honey bees and other beneficial insects like kids to a carnival.

It's sometimes called Texas sage, but it isn't a sage. It's in the plantago family and is native to the southwestern United States and Mexico.

Rain drops on the blossoms, bees in the blossoms, and all's right with the world.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then here we go with three thousand!