Also: Mini picspam!

[oloriel]

Because SPRING IS COMING. (Take that, ye Starks! ;))


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A hive with a view



At the hive's front door. It was so funny to watch - the bees shoot out of the box (to empty their bladders), then leisurely fly back and do some sunbathing! Except for those who have to get back to work, of course.



They didn't just use the mild weather for their Reinigungsflug ("hygiene flight", I have no idea what it's called in English!), they already brought some pollen home - see the little yellow and orange globes? No clue where they found those. The only things that are already in flower are snowdrops, winter aconite and the odd crocus. And hazel, but hazel pollen has a different colour!



See note on "what's in flower already" above.


Mr. Darcy approves of the weather, too!


The sunny weather is supposed to last only until tomorrow, with rain (but no frost!) from Thursday onwards. Oh well. I'm already tempted to get working in the garden, but rationally, it's not really the right time yet!

Comments

[satismagic.livejournal.com]

I've read we may get winter back next weekend. Do. Not. Want.

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

They're telling us that temperatures won't go lower than 5°C in the foreseeable future, so I'm cautiously optimistic!

[chili-das-schaf.livejournal.com]

Bees! So glad for you got some again (or are those leftovers from the hornet attack?) And I can imagine how badly they needed to pee xD

I sooo want to attack the balcony, too and plant some colours and grow some herbs, but as you said, I know it's not the right time yet.

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

No, those are new bees - the freebees/newbees (http://oloriel.livejournal.com/487768.html) I got in August. As that was a very late swarm, I wasn't certain they'd be strong enough to make it through winter... but apparently they were! \o/

[chili-das-schaf.livejournal.com]

Ah, I remember now.
Great they made it through the awful winter we had.

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Well, from their perspective it probably wasn't so bad - there was no extreme frost, and inside their cosy box they don't care if it's snowing or raining or perpetually clouded ^^

[gaharr.livejournal.com]

Great, now I have that in my mind again:

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

*stares mesemerised* ... WHAT... IS... THAT?

[gaharr.livejournal.com]

Bees... obviously.

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Duh. Let me clarify: Where is that from and what is the context?

[gaharr.livejournal.com]

Well, basically it was a gif of a vid showing her giving a car to everyone in her audience at one point

(http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1332213/Oprah-Winfrey-gives-new-VW-Beetle-car-275-audience.html)

BUT WITH BEEEES ADDED!

[fallingtowers.livejournal.com]

Actually, winter is still coming... :P

http://www.wetter.net/wetternews/wetter-deutschland-vor-brutalstmoeglicher-winterrueckkehr-6658.html

And, hi, kitty, hiiiii! :)

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Winter is always coming, because years work repetitively. (And more predictably than in Westeros, too! ;))
But right now, no matter what the weather has in store for us... the days are getting longer and spring is coming. I WANT TO BELIEVE.