One good thing about tumblr is that it's so much easier to upload photos than it is on LJ/DW.

So, here are two photo entries:

A Sherlock Holmes "cosplay" I did.

And some beekeeping work I did on the weekend.

I foolishly changed the feeder on the front of my hive earlier this week, wearing nothing on my top half but a black t-shirt. This was ( Read more... )

Before I started keeping bees, I think I assumed that the sensations involved in opening hives -- smell, sight, sound -- would be gentle ones. I'd never really seen an open beehive, and only Langstroth boxes from far away.

I don't know why -- and I was wildly off the mark -- but I'd imagined hive maintenance/harvesting to be a relaxing, ( Read more... )