Tuesday, June 7, 2016

Weeding, eating & laughing

Flitting from red clover blossom to the next

Enjoying the warmth of juicy sweet strawberries

Time to put the second deep on the new hives!  And time to harvest the spring honey - I got four heavy supers off two hives.

Hot and sweaty and putting equipment away after the honey harvest.

Our first four quarts! Yum!

Climbing roses - oh-so-pretty.

Red poppies

We know who rules the roost.

Summer rains..... too far south.  
 Today's Journey Joys: Warm, bright sunshine, roosters crowing, broilers fattening up, pea pods swelling, beets purple-red with deep abundant greens, black raspberries forming, the hue of blue beginning on the blueberries, the tangy pineapple & strawberry flavor of pine berries, muscles and joints that heal after long days of weeding and picking.

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Melancholy

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