Your flowers are just beautiful, taking photos of them with your new gadget really suits you. I agree that the bumblebee shot is the cherry on the top. Something you wrote in your post made me ponder:

Even the storm we had in June could not keep them from their destiny. The wind knocked down most of my dahlias, and they lost a bunch of the stems. Yet they recovered and overcame it.

I can't stop wondering if it is the same in our life, when storms come and almost put us to the ground yet we stubbornly refuse to sit defeated and choose to rise like your bold colorful dahlias..