Earth Day is Our Day, First Edition, 2012

There were Segway rides After our “sermons”  on Sunday morning, April 29, we ran across the street to the Town Building (I just loved that, that we could just cross the street and be there). Behind the building lies the grassy “courtyard”, intersected by paths. It was already bustling with people, exhibitors setting up their tables, …

Colony 1 and a Beautiful, Strange Bee

This has been some bee season already. Last year I was still mourning the imminent death of my colony (though it didn’t happen). This season we are, according to a local hive inspector, already in the month of May. Yesterday, finding it suddenly quite warm and seeing all the bees hanging out “on the porch” …