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A day of good bee hunting

Posted on September 11, 2011 by

I enjoyed hosting today on the Life-Friendly Garden Tour. Nice people stopped by and let me show off my bees. If you’re interested at all in bees, you know about honeybees going missing. If you want to help honeybees, the … Continue reading →

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Ode to asters

Posted on October 11, 2009 by

Oh, asters, wild asters, beloved of bees. You tumble down hill and sway on the breeze.

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Bee-vouac

Posted on September 16, 2009 by

The cool weather seems to be confusing the squash plants. Usually the flowers are closed by noon, but this was still wide open to what little sun warmed the gray sky this afternoon. What I wanted to know is whether … Continue reading →

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Bees of Spring

Posted on May 3, 2009 by

There’s a fairly bare, hard-packed stretch of dry soil that serves as a path up the hill in my yard, where I often see little brown bees zooming back and forth close to the ground. This year I finally slowed … Continue reading →

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