swarm of bees

totally random and totally scary.

this morning dh & i were weeding in the garden. we'd tackled a bunch of weeds and i was about to wrap it up.

suddenly i hear mass buzzing all around me as i was heading towards the patio. i turned around and there was a mass of black insects all in the air covering practically all the airspace of the size of the backyard. i freaked out (in my head i was like what? massive flies? black insects? did dh uncover some crazy insects in the weeds?)

i screeched and asked dh, "what is that?!?!"

he instantly replied, "get inside! call 911."

we both ran for the back door and quickly retreated inside our home.

dh said, "those are bees!"

as we peered out of our kitchen windows, we saw the mass quickly hover from the air covering our backyard into the air above our neighbors backyard.
we could still hear the buzzing through all of our double-paned closed windows.

they really just appeared out of nowhere! as just as fast as we noticed them, they were onto the next yard.

behind our yard, it's still a construction site. they haven't started building on the street, but it's paved. i don't know where the bees came from. but all of a sudden they were in our yard. and that ended our morning weeding. (a lot of weeding to still do - we're pulling weeds selectively - but the yard looks 100% better!)