What are you afraid of, not the serious fears but the unrealistic phobic fears?  For me it would be bees, to the point where sitting in traffic on I290 headed into Chicago with my windows down I got panicked just thinking about a bee getting in the car.  What would I do??  Normally jump out of the car but one can't do that on the expressway, can they?

Well, I went out to a small nature preserve to do some photos last weekend.  My goal and vision was to interact with the flowers to the point I almost was a flower.  It didn't quite go as planned.  I forgot where there are abundant flowers, there are abundant critters who like flowers.  Some of the bumble bees even came to check out the irises I brought with me.  Yikes!  How am I going to do this????

Above I am holding the irises by the tall grass.  I did not go into the grass as it was too full of life and the wasps scare me even more than the bees.
I did get some images with flowers and I incorporated the bumble bees into a couple for fun and because they seemed to better illustrate the emotions of the experience.  Don't worry, they weren't actually giant bees.

I also took some images with just the flowers, which I share below.  The bees liked the irises and I was brave and still put them in my dress to form a neckband of irises as I had wanted. 

In the upper right is a self portrait with me staring down a giant bumble bee.  Below I am holding a bouquet of irises and there are giant bumble bees flying around me.

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Above I combined three images to create twin me's and a giant garden.  To the left I have a collar of iris and a bouquet of iris.  I stepped into the shade to be away from the bees since they liked the iris so much.

My plan backfired as all of the mosquitoes were in the shade and now I am covered in bites.  Next time I need to wear bug spray.

So what are you afraid of, let me know in the comments?  Have you incorporated your fear into any creative work?  I'd love to hear!