What have you taken a picture of lately?

I have occasionally asked people in groups what they have for their screensaver wallpaper on their phones. But today I am wondering if you have a photo you would like to share, just because?
I have dog photos, house photos, garden photos, even screenshots.
What would you like to share?
And do you want to say something about it?
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My photo is of 3 dogs, all drop offs.
"Buddy"(everyone calls him that), Dizzy and Daisy."

Jeremy Bear, my 17 year old cat, who has decided since the weather got cooler here he's staying indoors, specifically, in the bedroom, which he hasn't left for days. He's pretty good for his age, but I can't shake the feeling this winter will be his last.

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bounty of the trees 2023

A seed grown and seed producing sweet potato.

Was at the community garden over the weekend and chatting to one of the members when we noticed his bees swarming.

The bees circled around for about half an hour and settled on my self sown plum tree.

The branch of the plum tree that they settled on had to be sacrificed when they were transferred toa new hive but a worthy sacrifice to my mind.

It's the first ever time I have witnessed a swarm from start to finish, felt most privileged.

That is awesome you got to experience and document that experience. I have seen swarming behavior before but I never did stick around.

Do you know if its probable to be a wild colony or someone's intentional colony?

Timothy Norton wrote:
Do you know if its probable to be a wild colony or someone's intentional colony?

The bees were from an intentional colony, they are kept by the gardener that I was chatting to. He has had his hives at the gardens for over 13 years.

Ironically, he had checked them just two weeks ago and he thought he'd removed all the extra queens but obviously not.

Fortunately, there are plenty of fruit trees within the gardens for the bees to choose from.

We had been chatting about a request from another gardener who wanted to keep a hive at the gardens.

Clearly a novice beekeeper otherwise she would have know about the beekeeping etiquette to not have different hives within a certain distance of each other.

That's a big swarm!

My new flower garden, just finished yesterday:

Nothing says we can't post as many pictures as we would like. 😉
Here's a picture from where I sit at aunt Loretta Robertson's kitchen table. She has a beautiful hand built cabin in a little holler in West Virginia. 10 feet out her kitchen window is a rock cliff and creek.

Mike Feddersen wrote:Nothing says we can't post as many pictures as we would like. 😉
Here's a picture from where I sit at aunt Loretta Robertson's kitchen table. She has a beautiful hand built cabin in a little holler in West Virginia. 10 feet out her kitchen window is a rock cliff and creek.

Wow, cracks me up how much her kitchen looks like mine, same stove, counters, faucet style, chairs and table. Hers is neater and more nicely decorated though. And I don't have a cliff or stream out front, sadly.