Beekeeping. Progress Report.

Minor maintenance on beehive. Check top bars, make sure there is room for expansion of hive. Remove the empty sugar feeders. Near the hives, a row of wild white-flowered trees. I don't know what they are. Mild musky fragrance. There were bumblebees as well as a few honeybees on these flowers.

Frosted Fig and Potatoes

Potatoes. I think they will grow back.Frosted fig. Petite negri.Frosted fig. Sal's fig.On Tues night it frosted at the Battleground place. The only damage I saw was to fig leaves, potato leaves, and some damage to new mulberry growth. Disappointing but it could have been worse.

Honeybee on Echinacea / William Blake

“The busy bee has no time for sorrow.”

William Blake

Photo via commons.wikipedia.org public domain photos. apis meliferra carnica on echinacea purpurea flower

Happiness. Robert Green Ingersoll

Happiness is the only good. 

The time to be happy is now. 

The place to be happy is here. 

The way to be happy is to make others so. 

-Robert Green Ingersoll

Plums. Progress Report.

Hollywood Plum. Fruit set is the best I've ever seen for this tree. Promising.Shiro Plum. Ditto.