Oak Orchard Honey

This is a test to see if I can upload movies from my iPhone. I was out at sundown and tried a 15 second movie of the evenings's activities. Now I just have to figure out why it's sideways...

Cold with a bit of snow today; kind of thought we were past all that. I took some pictures of what is blooming in the yard so I could look back next year and get an idea how early or late spring is. The dandelions have just appeared in the past couple days. I've always liked dandelions and felt that they are wildflower not a weed. I think of a weed as one of those things with thorns that causes intense pain when you step on it. Now that I have honey bees I feel like mowing all those great flowers is not as easy as it used to be, especially when bees are working them. The catalpa trees have small buds and some are starting to open on lower branches of the young trees. The older ones look as if it were mid-winter, not any signs of life. The cherry tree pictured here has bloomed within the past two days, while the Bradford pear has been in full bloom for about the past five or six days. A few honey bees were on the blooms in the late afternoon when I got home the other da...

Things look active at both hives, but I won't see them for a week because of vacation. I'm writing as we travel down 95 on our way to Kure Beach. The forsythia and cherry trees are in full bloom as we motor along the Virginia countryside. I'm looking to see if there are honey bees on the blossoms, but haven't noticed any yet. I have heard it said that spring travels north at about twenty miles an hour. That puts flowers like the ones I'm looking at about twenty days away. That's not too bad.