Into the Garden...

Into the Hives and Around the Garden...

The first sign of grapes.

Spider Wart

Honey on the comb! 

More honey!  Some capped, some not. 

Dave doing what he likes best...making fire! 

Oh to the QUEEN...She's Definitively Royalty!

Not my normal BEE stuff but this is one Queen I truly admire.  Check out Lyn Wendon, the inventor of Letterland all the way from the UK for a visit with young children in Raleigh on a beautiful day in May.  Nothing short of AWESOME!  

Could not resist the photo opportunity with  Quarrelsome Queen...That's me Talking Tess...talking all the time! 

 The turn out was fantastic.  More than we imagined for our first Annual Letterland Adventure Day at Pullen Park.  

 Even Clever Cat showed up! Read more about this exciting day at Letterland-inventor-holds-court.html

Want to know more?  Letterland 

Early May in the Garden

The weather this month has been nothing short of fabulous.  No humidity, great temperatures and no bugs...well other than the Honeybees who are certainly not BUGS!  A good friend left me a birdbath as a gift when she moved to Atlanta earlier this year and the bees have taken to it quite well.  Hopefully, this will keep them from visiting my neighbors pool.  Not sure our bees were in their pool last year but they thought so...

SEED: The Untold Story

http://www.seedthemovie.com/  Check out the trailer for this documentary coming soon.  Can't wait!

Went into the hives this weekend and all is well.  The Tulip Poplar is in full bloom and the nectar is flowing.  Hopefully, we will have plenty of honey to extract in June.