The last honey bee of 2012.

Despite the cold weather at Bodega Bay last Friday, we managed to see a few honey bees nectaring a New Zealand tea tree, aka Leptospermum scoparium.

The temperature registered 53 degrees and there they were, foraging among the dainty pink and white blossoms, as if it were spring.

As the year draws to a close, we've been inundated with words like "fiscal cliff," "spoiler alert,"  "bucket list" and "YOLO." (No, Yolo doesn't mean Yolo County but "You Only Live Once.")

Let's hope those words don't apply to honey bees in 2013 and the years beyond.