And the spring picspam I warned you about
May. 2nd, 2013 02:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
olorielApril picspam, to be precise. This April was a funny month (... as Aprils are wont to be, really, so why am I surprised?),
starting out like this:
and ending like this:
And in between...
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Celandines. Can I just say that "celandine" sounds so much nicer than its German name (Scharbockskraut, "scurvy weed")? So poetic. I used to call them elanor because I thought they were what Tolkien meant, but then I discovered that celandines (by that name) are actually part of the description of Ithilien. So they're clearly not elanor. Oh well.[/random]
You know, one day I actually will make a mantle shaped like this. Just because it's such a pretty idea.
Corner of the garden in its current state of semi-budding, semi-ordering. I do hope it will get better.
And then it turned May. Anyway, Spring has sprung after all! About time, too. Yesterday, I gave the bees an additional box, purely for honey (i.e., with a grid in between so the queen can't get in. No queen, no eggs.). Not because I have any illusions that they'll give me much honey this spring, but because they were starting to build wild combs on top of their frames. For no good reason - they have empty frames enough yet! But their instinct is to store honey above their brood, and apparently, that means they want to build upwards even when they have a lot of space sideways. As long as there's no brood sideways, there's no point storing honey there? I don't know. I'm not a bee after all. I just hope that they'll stop building nonsense now that they have a whole storey just for honey. We'll see!
starting out like this:
and ending like this:
And in between...
Click on thumbnails will lead to larger pics, etc. etc.
Celandines. Can I just say that "celandine" sounds so much nicer than its German name (Scharbockskraut, "scurvy weed")? So poetic. I used to call them elanor because I thought they were what Tolkien meant, but then I discovered that celandines (by that name) are actually part of the description of Ithilien. So they're clearly not elanor. Oh well.[/random]
You know, one day I actually will make a mantle shaped like this. Just because it's such a pretty idea.
Corner of the garden in its current state of semi-budding, semi-ordering. I do hope it will get better.
And then it turned May. Anyway, Spring has sprung after all! About time, too. Yesterday, I gave the bees an additional box, purely for honey (i.e., with a grid in between so the queen can't get in. No queen, no eggs.). Not because I have any illusions that they'll give me much honey this spring, but because they were starting to build wild combs on top of their frames. For no good reason - they have empty frames enough yet! But their instinct is to store honey above their brood, and apparently, that means they want to build upwards even when they have a lot of space sideways. As long as there's no brood sideways, there's no point storing honey there? I don't know. I'm not a bee after all. I just hope that they'll stop building nonsense now that they have a whole storey just for honey. We'll see!
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Date: 2013-05-02 02:08 pm (UTC)Bee logic ... maybe you have a Bloody Stupid Johnson bee architect in there?
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Date: 2013-05-06 08:57 am (UTC)A Bloody Stupid Johnson hivemind, more like! >_>