1. One spring, carpenter bees infested my bedroom wall. Their buzzing woke me each morning, and I would sit on my knees and put my ear up to the wall to listen to, feel, their hum.
2. Lily says there's beekeeping camp. Beekeeping camp means you can take your space camp and shove it.
3. This 2007 New Yorker article on the disappearance of bees is a good one, if you missed it. It is fascinating, sad.
5. Boy bees are only good for one thing.
6. This fellow keeps bees (les abeilles) atop the Opera Garnier. Because my Opera Garnier obsession wasn't quite bad enough before this discovery. (Buy the honey here. Photo above.)
7. It is fun to say "apiary." Apiary, apiary, apiary.
8. Another name for "first milk" is "beestings."
A warm welcome to any of you beauties stopping by from the Lil Bee, and many thanks for your kind comments over the last couple of weeks. I wish you long winter hums. I wish you pollen for dusting yourself in, and honey and huddle enough to make it through.
13 maids a-milking:
i always meant to ask the beekeeper at the clinton community garden if i could apprentice at his apiary. you know, haul combs, sort pollen, translate zzrbs.
bees, for me, are plath. such marvelous bee poems.
kind of like human boys?
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
also, beastings. :)
There is something so lovely and cosy about honey, about bees, about bumble.
@Lauren: The Plath bees are the best bees.
9. Beeswax candles are the best.
Take your space camp and shove it!
5 - :D
We are going to get bees one day. Prolly the same day we get a chicken.
When I worked at a daily newspaper I did an article on a beekeeper. I put on a bee suit and we puffed thick spirals of smoke around the hives to calm the bees.
The bee keeper took the hive apart and showed me the queen. Then he sent me home with a pot of honey from those very bees. It was slightly pink because he had been giving them pure cherry juice.
I've been in love with bees ever since. I also love that my name means honeybee in Greek.
yesfor taking your space camp and shoving it. this particular one is the hill country outside austin.
yes for bees kept atop wonderful buildings. there was a new york times article ages ago about the illegal beekeeping trade on brooklyn's rooftops. i say, awesome. there are worse things people could be doing than making honey illegally on rooftops.
yes for beestings. and first milk. and the joy that comes when entomology crosses paths with etymology.
(p.s. thanks for the sweet link to bigBANG!)
my father's lovely lady friend has begun keeping bees. she watches them for hours with her binoculars and reports back to us on their doings.
If you can keep bees in Paris, then you can anywhere...like Chicago?
I'm going to look into it.
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